Stars of the Night:
AAA – Fernando Martinez (2-for-3, 2B, BB, K)
AA – Brahiam Maldonado (2-for-3, HR, 4 RBI, R, SB)
HiA – Jordany Valdespin (2-for-4, 2 RBI, SB, BB, E)
LoA – Armando Rodriguez (4.1 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 ER, BB, 2 K)
SSA – Rylan Sandoval (2-for-4, 2B , HR, 2 R, 3 RBI)
RK – Nelfi Zapata (1-for-3, 2 RBI, BB)
GCL – OFF

AAA – Buffalo Bisons

Dillon Gee had good control tonight, but absolutely no command of his pitches. He didn’t walk anybody yet still gave up 7 runs in just 3 innings on 9 hits. He wasn’t getting hit hard, but the other team was just peppering hits all over the field.

AA – Binghamton Mets

Eric Niesen had arguably his best start of the season today. Now outside of 1 bad start in June he has gone 18.1 innings over 3 starts pitching to an 0.49 ERA. Over that time he has given up 11 hits and 6 walks while striking out 14. A pretty impressive month for Niesen after missing most of May with a concussion. All the BMets offense came in the 7th innings. After the first four batters reached base a pitching changed was made to face Brahiam Maldonado. It turned out to be a bad move as Maldonado hit a grand small to put the game out of reach.

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

Errors opened the doors in the early part of this game. In the first inning with a man on first the Mets made 2 errors on one play allowing the batter to reach first base and the other man to advance to third base safely. Kyle Allen appeared to get flustered throwing a wild pitch to the very next batter and then again two batters later. The inning ended with 2 runs scoring. Allen got in trouble again in the next inning thanks to a Richard Lucas error to lead off the inning. Again it seemed to get to Allen who hit the next batter before giving up a 3-run homer. He settled in after that even striking out the side in his final inning of work. The rehabbing Carlos Beltran went 0-for-2 with a walk.

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

The new Sand Gnats roster didn’t fair well against top pitching prospect Tyler Matzek. Matzek no-hit the Gnats, but had to be taking out early as he ran into a high pitch count with control problems and after walking the bases loaded in the 6th. Armando Rodriguez was pitching a great game, but in the 5th with runners on first and second and no outs the batter tried to lay down a suicide bunt, however, Doc Doyle made a bad throw to first that allowed all the runners to advance and the Tourists to take the lead.

SSA – Brooklyn Cyclones

Rylan Sandoval, who actually looks smaller than his listed 5’10, had himself a nice day collecting 2 extra base hits and 3 RBI’s. The offense was connecting on all cylinders tonight as every starter except Kurt Steinhauer reached base at least 2 times.

RK – Kingsport Mets