AAA – Buffalo Bisons

Dillon Gee pitched a great game, but unfortunately for him his bullpen was not up to task tonight. Roy Merritt got his first real taste of AAA giving up 6 runs on 4 hits (all doubles!) and a walk in just .1 innings.

AA – Binghamton Mets

I can guarantee you this. If Clint Evertswas not a former 1st round pick he would not be on this roster right now. He has nothing going for him other than he pedigree. Even though Josh Satin and Luis Hernandez might be the heroes of this game it was the Eric Campbell show. He continued his season long hot streak by going 4-for-5 with 2 home runs, 3 runs scored, and 4 RBI’s. He is having a great season and is making himself a ‘prospect’.

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

Kyle Allen was pitching a great game through 4 innings, actually holding a no-hitter, and then things began to fall apart in the 5th. He gave up 2 runs in the inning on 4 hits, but things would have been much worse had Jean Luc Blaquiere not picked the leadoff runner off 1st base. Things got worse for Allen in the 7th when after already giving up 2 runs he left with runners on 1st and 3rd for Stephen Clyne who game up a double and an inherited runner before getting out of the inning. Jordany Valdespin continues to serve as the linchpin of the offense with 2 more RBI’s today.

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

Brandon Moore carried a no-hitter all the way into the 8th inning when he gave up a lead off single and then things began to crumble as the inning would end in a 4-4 tie thanks to Erik Turgeon coming in and allowing the runner on 3rd base to score on a wild pitch.

SSA – Brooklyn Cyclones

Yesterday it was clear the Darrell Ceciliani was the best player on the field and he showed that again tonight, but what I want to know is how the huge Jeff Flagg stole a base.

AAA – Buffalo Bisons

In Dillon Gee‘s last three starts, all in June, he has been absolutely lit up. During those games Gee has given up 24 hits and 19 runs (15 earned) in just 14.1 innings. He has also given up a whopping 5 home runs. He has probably killed any possibility of a call up. I am sure Nelson Figueora had fun beating the Mets, but I would like to point out he is in AAA and Jesus Feliciano is in the MLB so everything he said about the Mets organization keeping older players down compared to other organizations doesn’t make much sense anymore. Au revoir Nelson. Fernando Martinez has been locked in at the plate since coming back from his injury with 6 hits in just 11 at bats.

AA – Binghamton Mets

John Maine was good in his rehab start. He threw 63 pitches (was on a 65-pitch pitch count). Gerard Guilfoyle says Maine topped out at 87-88 mph. He is going to Buffalo on Friday and if he has similar results I think Jerry has to give him a shot despite the low velocity. Brad Holt was piggybacking Maine, who was taking his rotation spot, and was absolutely awful. He was consistentely getting behind hitters with first pitch balls and when he throw a strike it got hit. A DL stint might be in order for Holt because his stuff is too to be this bad unless something is wrong. The only BMets player who did anything was Eric Campbell who mad two diving plays to save Maine a couple of runs, hit a home run, and drove in the only other run with a single.

HiA – St. Lucie Mets
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LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats
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AAA – Buffalo Bisons

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

Robert Carson’s pitchcount: 22 Balls – 70 strikes = 92 total pitches.
Carson threw mostly fastballs that he located with perfection that the Legends just simply could not hit. The fastball was mostly 88-90 and he did hit 92 once. He could throw the fastball up, down, in, out no matter what the pitch was just unhittable. He threw some sliders that went as high as 86 mph. He did a good job keeping it down getting grounders with it when he threw it. I saw only a handful of change ups that he didn’t really need to use, but threw a few and located them well. Nothing bad from Carson on the night.

1st inning:

• Jefry Marte jumped on a first pitch fastball that was high to clobber it into deep left field for a homerun.
• Robert Carson – GB to 2^nd (2 pitches), BB (6 pitches), GB  to 2^nd (3 pitches), GB to 2^nd (3 pitches) 5 balls – 9 strikes. Touched 90 mph.
• Poor turn of attempted double play by Imbewer Alvarez.
• Pelligrini looks like a house!

2^nd inning:

• Eric Campbell worked the count nice for a leadoff walk.
• Leblanc had a nice inside-out swing of a ball to right field.
• Robert Carson – K via fastball (3 pitches), GB  to SS (1 pitch), GB to 2^nd (1 pitch) 0 balls – 5 strikes (all fastballs)

3^rd inning:

• Marte attempted to bunt for a hit, but was barely thrown out.
• Sean Ratliff struck out looking on a nasty two-seam fastball
• K via fastball (4 pitches), GB 3^rd base (1 pitch), K looking via fastball (5 pitches),  3 balls-7 strikes. Slider came in at 86 mph.

4^th inning:

• Again Campbell showing great plate discipline
• Robert Carson – single into right field (2 pitches), GB to SS (2 pitches), K via changeup (5 pitches) 2 balls-7 strikes
• After 4 pickoff attempts Carson finally picked off his man.
• Great pick at first base by Campbell.

5^th inning:

• Evan LeBlanc another nice job taking it the opposite field this time high off the wall for a double.
• Robert Carson – GB to SS error (3 pitches), FO to center (4 pitches), GB to 2^nd (4 pitches), pickoff (1 pitch) 2balls -10 strikes
• Pickoff was all the batters fault he simply took off to early.

6h inning:

• Gnats get lucky run on a batched ground ball by the Legend’s shortstop.  Very routine play he messed up.
• Not showing from Leblanc time pulling a fastball into left field for an RBI.
• Leblanc showing nice speed scoring all the way from first.
• Robert Carson – FO to left field (1 pitch,  infield hit to SS (2 pitches), FO to center field (8 pitches), GB to 3^rd base (2 pitches) 2 balls-11 strikes

7^th inning:

• Marte had an 0-2 count and battled back to get a walk.
• Ratliff just missed a homerun hitting one HIGH off the wall in right field for a single.
• Josh Satin thrown out at home on a ball hit relatively shallow in right field.
• Robert Carson – GB to 3^rd base (4 pitches), K looking via slider (7 pitches), FO to left field (3 pitches) 7 balls- 7 strikes

8^th inning:

• Marte put a great swing on a ball off the wall into left for an RBI single.
• Robert Carson – K swinging via fastball (3 pitches), FO to left field (1 pitch), single on line drive to left field (1 pitch), K swinging via fastball (4 pitches) 1 ball-7 strikes

9^th inning:

• Robert Carson – GB to 2^nd (4 pitches), K swinging via fastball (3 pitches), linedrive out to 2^nd(4 pitches) 4 balls – 7 strikes

AAA – Buffalo Bisons

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Buffalo 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 0 Pawtucket 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Recap | Box | W: Stoner (2-2, 4.28); L: Gonzalez, En (7-8, 5.57); SV: Snyder, K (1)

Great performance by Tobi Stoner. Still say his best case scenario is Brian Bannister lite.

AA – Binghamton Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Binghamton 1 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 7 12 1 New Britain 0 3 1 0 2 1 2 1 X 10 17 2 Recap | Box | W: Burnett (1-2, 2.00); L: Alfonzo, Edgar (4-3, 3.45); SV: Slama (19)  HR: NBR: Lis (7).

Eric Niesen got lit up yet again in a AA start.  I keep saying should have left him in HiA to give him some trade value we could have used right now with the trade deadline approaching.  He has kept a good K rate, but the amount of homeruns has gone up now that he is not in the pticher friendly FSL anymore.

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

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LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Savannah 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 5 10 2 Lexington 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 0 Recap | Box | W: Schwinden (6-4, 3.52); L: Bono (8-5, 2.58); SV: Cruz, R (15)  HR: SAV: Ratliff (9), Campbell (5).

The long ball was absolutely working with homeruns from both Sean Ratliff (9) and Eric Campbell (5).  Campbell had three more hits on the night going 4-4 with  2 RBI’s.  Chris Schwinden is continuing to be a pleasent surprise after dominating the NYPL. 7 more innings of 1 run ball for the righty.

SSA- Brooklyn Cyclones

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Brooklyn 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 4 3 0 Staten Island 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 Recap | Box W: Moore, B (3-0, 0.62); L: Vizcaino (0-3, 2.82)

Brandon Moore who has been stupid good this season put up a complete game shutout in the 1st half of the double header.  He now has a crazy 2:24 BB:K on the season.  I was hoping to see him pitch this weekend, but now it looks like I will get Collin McHugh or Mark Cohoon.

Game 2

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Brooklyn 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 5 1 Staten Island 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 6 1 Recap | Box W: Bailey (2-1, 3.77); L: Fuller, J (3-1, 1.08) HR: SI: Paredes (1).

Jim Fuller pitched fairly well pitching into the 7th inning striking out 7 walking only 1, but giving up 3 earned runs, his first earned runs of the year.  Nick Santomauro drove in runs in both games of the double header.

RK1 – Kingsport Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Elizabethton 0 2 0 0 2 2 0 3 0 9 11 1 Kingsport 0 0 0 1 7 0 2 0 X 10 9 0 Recap | Box W: White, Jo (1-2, 8.79); L: Ibarra (1-1, 8.10); SV: Babin (3)  HR: ELZ: Pinto, J (5). KNG: Harris, A (3).

Alonzo Harris is showing great power for a 20-year-old second baseman.  The small righty slugged his 3rd homerun in just the 16th game of the season.  Ryan Mollica of the 2009 draft calss put up a noteworthy performance of 3-3 with a double and 3 RBI’s.  Poor pitching with the only good perfomance from Travis Babin.

Rk2 – GCL Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E GCL Cardinals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 GCL Mets 0 3 0 1 0 2 4 0 X 10 11 1 Recap | Box W: Almonte, Y (1-0, 0.66); L: Munoz, Or (1-2, 6.23) HR: None.