AA – Binghamton Mets

Since moving into the rotation Josh Stinson has just gotten better and better. He has increased his ground balls, giving up less hits, and pitching to a .94 WHIP compared to a 1.23 as a reliever. As each game goes on he appears to get better and better. The two new BMets contributed big time to the offensive outburst combining to go 6-for-11 with 3 RBI’s and 2 runs. While his average has been high all year Eric Campbell is finally showing some power slugging .581 in his last ten games during which he has hit 2 of his 3 home runs.

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

Mark Cohoon has been just absolutely ridiculous this year.

AAA – Buffalo Bisons

AA – Binghamton Mets

HiA – St. Lucie Mets (FSL All-Star Game)

Josh Satin deserves the MVP of the game going 3-for-5 with a home run and 3 RBI’s.  Sean Ratliff was 1-for-4 and Stefan Welch was 0-for-2.

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

AAA – Buffalo Bisons

Dylan Owen had his first rough outing in AAA today giving up 4 runs on 6 hits.  His peripherals actually still look really good as he has struck out a batter per inning during his stint in AAA and only walked 4 batters so far.  Today he was victimized by the longball, which will probably be in the only thing holding him back from being able to start in the big leagues and force him into a relief role.

Not that the Mets have any brains in their organization, but Jesus Feliciano went 5 for 5 today with 2 doubles and is now hitting over .400 on the season.  But Gary Matthews Jr. had a walk today so that should be enough to keep him around for another month.  Daniel Murphy had a big day driving in four runs.

AA – Binghamton Mets

Josh Stinson had to pick up the spot start today and did pretty well giving up just 2 hits and 2 walks while pitching into the fifth inning.  Stinson has been a starter in the past, but has been used exclusively out of the bullpen over the last two years so it was nice to see he can still be a long reliever if needed.

Nick Evans teed off on Akron pitching today driving in the go ahead run in the 5th with a solo home run and adding on in the 7th inning with a two-run home run that would account for the winning runs.  Reese Havens joined in the power game belting his first home run of the year.  The 3-4-5 hitters combined to go 8-for-11 with 3 home runs, 4 RBI’s, and 4 runs on the day.

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

After hitting just 8 home runs all of last year 2nd baseman Josh Satin is already up to 5 on the season after a solo shot in the 4th.  Although he is old for the Florida State League he is demonstrating good power in such a hitters league.  When I saw him he had really good gap power, but also a lot of room to fill out and it looks like the added muscle is turning some of those doubles into homers.  Joey August saw his 9-game hit streak come to an end after an o-for-3 performance.

Wesley Wrenn was able to settle down after early trouble, but had to leave early after throwing so many pitches to get through the 2nd inning.  The Mets, however, received some great bullpen work and were able to put up zeroes and give the offense the chance to come back in the late innings.

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

The Gnats had no problem holding the lead from yesterday’s suspended game, but things didn’t go so smoothly in game #2.  Darin Gorski was roughed up for 5 runs and John Church had his first bad outing of the year raising his ERA all the way up to 1.76!  Wilmer Flores got on base twice to help get out of a mini slump as he is batting .150 over his last 10 games and drove in a run in the process on a first inning single to score Pedro Zapata.  Jefry Marte and Cesar Puello also had good games as Marte went deep and Puello swiped two more bags.

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 Scranton/WB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 0 Buffalo 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 X 4 9 1 Recap | Box | W: Broadway, La (2-5, 5.68); L: Sanchez, Ro (2-1, 3.63)

AA – Binghamton Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Binghamton 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 Portland 0 0 3 0 0 0 X 3 4 1 Recap | Box | W: Tazawa (8-5, 2.79); L: Holt (0-3, 8.40); SV: Richardson (2)  HR: BIN: Davis, I (3).

Bit shocked Holt actually gave up 3 runs with only 3 hits and 1 walk.  Still it has to be an encouraging start with a whopping 10ks in only 5 innings.  Ike Davis is just smashing the ball.

Game 2

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Binghamton 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 10 1 Portland 1 5 0 0 0 0 X 6 8 1 Recap | Box | W: Mills, A (5-5, 5.47); L: Ruckle (0-1, 4.63)

Jacob Ruckle should be strictly a reliever no more starting for him.

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Palm Beach 3 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 8 14 2 St. Lucie 0 1 0 2 3 0 0 2 1 9 11 2 Recap | Box | W: Alvarez, Ma (3-1, 2.08); L: Reifer (3-6, 5.28) HR: PMB: Luna, A (6), Arburr (5).

Rough start for Moviel, but he gets a pass as he is still returning from an injury, but nice job by Frederick in mop up duty.  Welch, Veloz, and Maldonado had multi hit games.

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Savannah 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 3 7 2 Lexington 0 1 2 0 0 3 1 0 X 7 9 1 Recap | Box | W: Dydalewicz (5-3, 3.24); L: Allen, K (5-5, 4.54) HR: SAV: Ratliff (8), Satin (4). LEX: Pellegrini (13), Brown, S (3).

Another rough outing for Allen the homeruns are a little concerning.  Josh Satin and Sean Ratliff (both who should be in St. Lucie) hit homeruns in today’s game.  Jefry Marte 32nd error of the season!!

SSA – Brooklyn Cyclones

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 R H E Aberdeen 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 5 13 1 Brooklyn 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 11 0 Recap | Box | W: Barajas (1-1, 7.45); L: Powers (1-1, 0.96); SV: Brandhorst, J (1) HR: BRK: Servidio (4).

John Servidio continues to be either really really good or really really bad and today he was really really good.  2009 draft picks Sam Honeck and Alex Gregory had multi hit games.

RK1 – Kingsport Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Elizabethton 2 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 7 11 1 Kingsport 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 5 X 10 16 2 Recap | Box W: Taveras (1-2, 6.48); L: Davis, T (0-2, 11.37); SV: Babin (2)

AAAHHH this sucks Angel Cuan has been terrible this year.  Just way too hittable. Not losing faith in him, but he isn’t exactly making me look good by saying he could rise quickly on prospect losts.

RK2 – GCL Mets

Cmpl. Early: Rain 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E GCL Mets 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 4 9 10 2 GCL Astros 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 2 4 4 Recap | Box W: Peralta (2-1, 3.00); L: Batista, R (0-2, 4.15); SV: Tabata (1)

AAA – Buffalo Bisons

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Buffalo 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 0 Rochester 3 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 X 7 16 0 Recap | Box | Game Story: ROC W: Crain (1-0, 3.72); L: Knight (4-9, 5.36) HR: ROC: Pridie (4).

AA – Binghamton Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Erie 1 0 1 1 3 0 4 1 1 12 18 1 Binghamton 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 4 7 0 Recap | Box | W: Kibler (5-5, 3.78); L: Brown, E (4-9, 5.83) HR: ERI: Scram (11), Iorg (8).

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Jupiter 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 8 2 St. Lucie 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 X 6 8 3 Recap | Box | W: Stinson (1-0, 2.25); L: Fulton (0-2, 2.63); SV: Alvarez, Ma (8)  HR: STL: Maldonado, B (8).

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Savannah 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 7 4 Greenville 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 X 5 7 2 Recap | Box | W: Williamson (6-2, 2.61); L: Carson (6-6, 2.22) HR: SAV: Satin (3).

Robert Carson had a no hitter through 5 innings before imploding in the 6th.

SSA – Brooklyn Cyclones

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Brooklyn 2 1 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 9 11 1 Tri-City 0 2 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 8 15 4 Recap | Box | W: Carrillo Jr. (1-0, 0.00); L: Grimmett (0-2, 5.84); SV: Powers (3) HR: BRK: Rivera, L (2), Giarraputo (1).

RK1 – Kingsport Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E Greeneville 4 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 14 0 Kingsport 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 6 12 1 Recap | Box | W: Pettus (1-0, 2.08); L: Chism, T (0-1, 2.25); SV: Smink, T (3)  HR: None.

RK2 – GCL Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E GCL Nationals 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 GCL Mets 0 1 5 0 2 0 0 3 X 11 14 1 Recap | Box W: Torres (3-0, 1.13); L: Hansen (1-1, 8.64)