AA – Eastern League

Binghamton 2 | Bowie 6

BATTING
2B: Ratliff (14, Cooney).
HR: Evans, N (16, 1st inning off Gamboa, 0 on, 1 out).
TB: Evans, N 5; Ratliff 2; Manriquez, S; Coronado 2.
RBI: Evans, N (47), Ratliff (25).
2-out RBI: Ratliff.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Coronado; Satin; Fisher.
GIDP: Evans, N 2.
Team RISP: 1-for-4.
Team LOB: 8.

BASERUNNING
PO: Nieuwenhuis (1st base by Gamboa).

FIELDING
E: Schwinden (1, pickoff).
Outfield assists: Nieuwenhuis (Adams at 3rd base).
DP: 3 (Manriquez, S-Coronado, Coronado-Fisher-Satin, Nieuwenhuis-Fisher-Evans, N).

HiA – Florida State League

St. Lucie 4 | Clearwater 3

2B: Lagares (3, Sandoval, J).
HR: Welch, S (5, 4th inning off Aumont, 0 on, 0 out), Pellot (3, 7th inning off Loop, 0 on, 1 out).
TB: Welch, S 4; Lagares 2; Barrett; Pellot 5.
RBI: Fernandez, R (8), Welch, S (52), Pellot 2 (11).
2-out RBI: Pellot.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Flores, W 2; Valdespin.
SF: Fernandez, R.
Team RISP: 1-for-4.
Team LOB: 4.

BASERUNNING
SB: Lagares (7, 2nd base off Aumont/Langley).
CS: Mollica (1, 2nd base by Loop/Langley).

FIELDING
E: Moviel (4, pickoff).
DP: (Flores, W-Valdespin-Welch, S).
1-Ran for Barrett in the 9th.

St. Lucie 9 | Clearwater 4

BATTING
2B: Fernandez, R (2, Diekman), Pellot (3, Diekman), Lagares (4, Diekman).
HR: Lagares (2, 3rd inning off Cloyd, 0 on, 0 out), Flores, W (2, 6th inning off Diekman, 3 on, 2 out).
TB: Valdespin; Lagares 6; Flores, W 5; Fernandez, R 2; Barrett; August; Pellot 2.
RBI: August (10), Lagares 3 (16), Pellot (12), Flores, W 4 (19).
2-out RBI: Pellot; Lagares 2; Flores, W 4.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Valdespin 2; Mollica.
Team RISP: 4-for-9.
Team LOB: 5.

FIELDING
DP: (Valdespin-Flores, W-Welch, S).

a-Walked for Mollica in the 6th.

SSA – New York-Penn League

Brooklyn 4 | Tri-City 7

BATTING
2B: Brown (4, Quevedo), Centeno (3, Quevedo).
HR: Sandoval (6, 1st inning off Quevedo, 0 on, 0 out), Vaughn (9, 3rd inning off Quevedo, 1 on, 1 out), Flagg (5, 9th inning off Ness, 0 on, 0 out).
TB: Sandoval 4; Vaughn 5; Flagg 4; Bonfe 2; Brown 2; Centeno 3.
RBI: Sandoval (19), Vaughn 2 (27), Flagg (23).
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Harrison; Cherry.
Team RISP: 1-for-3.
Team LOB: 3.

BASERUNNING
CS: Cherry (4, 2nd base by Blankenship/Heath).
PO: Cherry (1st base by Blankenship).

FIELDING
E: Sandoval (5, fielding), Almonte, Y (3, pickoff).
Outfield assists: Vaughn 2 (Infante at 3rd base, Bailey, A at 2nd base).
DP: (Vaughn-Harrison).

RK – Appalachian League

Kingsport 5 | Johnson City 9

BATTING
2B: Semel (3, Daugherty).
HR: Cordero (4, 4th inning off Daugherty, 0 on, 2 out), Schafer (1, 5th inning off Daugherty, 1 on, 2 out).
TB: Schafer 4; Cordero 4; Zapata, N; Van Gurp; Semel 2.
RBI: Cordero (19), Semel (3), Schafer 2 (13).
2-out RBI: Cordero; Schafer 2.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Rodriguez, Ja; Cordero.
GIDP: Van Gurp.
Team RISP: 1-for-6.
Team LOB: 3.

BASERUNNING
SB: Schafer (4, 2nd base off Daugherty/Tartamella).
CS: Brown, B (1, 2nd base by De Jesus/Tartamella).

FIELDING
DP: (Van Gurp-Stewart).

AAA – Buffalo Bisons

BATTING
HR: Duda (7, 7th inning off Chico, 2 on, 0 out), Martinez, F (7, 7th inning off Garate, 0 on, 1 out), Jacobs (11, 8th inning off Villone, 0 on, 1 out).
TB: Turner; Padilla, J; Jacobs 4; Pascucci; Cervenak, M 3; Duda 4; Martinez, F 4.
RBI: Cervenak, M (17), Duda 3 (20), Martinez, F (23), Jacobs (44).
2-out RBI: Cervenak, M.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Hernandez, Lu.
S: Green, A.
GIDP: House.
Team RISP: 2-for-6.
Team LOB: 5.

FIELDING
E: Cervenak, M (8, throw).
PB: House 2 (5).

a-Homered for O’Connor in the 7th. b-Hit a sacrifice bunt for De La Torre in the 9th.

Fernando Martinez’s pinch hit home run gives him a home run in two consecutive games and 3 in his last 4 games to go along with 6 RBI’s.  After a gigantic 2 games homerless streak Lucas Duda cracked a 3-run in the 7th to help spark the comeback.  Look at his stats from the last 8 days.  The power/patience is just ridiculous.

AA – Binghamton Mets

BATTING
2B: Nieuwenhuis (23, Duke).
TB: Nieuwenhuis 2; Evans, N 2; Satin 2; Fisher; Coronado.
RBI: Evans, N (43).
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Fisher.
GIDP: Ratliff; Reyes, R; Malo.
Team RISP: 1-for-4.
Team LOB: 5.

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

BATTING
TB: Flores, W; Beltran; Welch, S; Fernandez, R.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Lagares.
Team RISP: 0-for-2.
Team LOB: 4.

BASERUNNING
PO: Lucas, R (1st base by Jefferies).

FIELDING
E: Carson 2 (3, fielding, pickoff).
DP: (Valdespin-Flores, W-Welch, S).
Pickoffs: Carson 2 (Murrill at 1st base, Velasquez, I at 2nd base).

BATTING
TB: Beltran 2; Flores, W; Gronauer; Lucas, R; Pellot.
RBI: Gronauer (5), Beltran (5).
2-out RBI: Beltran.
GIDP: Barrett 2; Lagares; Flores, W.
Team RISP: 2-for-3.
Team LOB: 1.

FIELDING
E: Gronauer (1, throw).

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

SSA – Brooklyn Cyclones

BATTING
2B: Cherry 2 (5, Gonzalez, Sa, Morales, I), Flagg (5, Heatley).
3B: Flagg (4, Gonzalez, Sa).
HR: Sandoval (2, 1st inning off Gonzalez, Sa, 0 on, 0 out).
TB: Sandoval 6; Flagg 5; Brown; Cherry 4.
RBI: Sandoval 3 (10).
2-out RBI: Sandoval.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Bonfe; Vaughn; Ceciliani, D 2; Brown; Schroeder; Flagg 2.
S: Centeno.
Team RISP: 2-for-13.
Team LOB: 9.

BASERUNNING
SB: Ceciliani, D (4, 2nd base off Gonzalez, Sa/Gimenez, W).

FIELDING
DP: 3 (Sandoval-Flagg, Sandoval-Brown-Flagg 2).

a-Struck out for Brown in the 8th. b-Intentionally walked for Holliday, C in the 9th.

RK – Kingsport Mets

BATTING
2B: Schafer (4, Cole), McQueen (6, Hagen).
3B: Van Gurp (1, Alaniz), Schafer (1, Hagen).
HR: Rodriguez, A (5, 4th inning off Alaniz, 1 on, 1 out).
TB: Van Gurp 3; Schafer 7; McQueen 3; Stewart 2; Rodriguez, A 6.
RBI: Rodriguez, A 2 (8), Schafer (6), Hinojosa (1), McQueen (3), Stewart (3).
2-out RBI: Schafer.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Schafer; Zapata, N; McQueen; Semel.
S: Cordero.
SF: Stewart.
GIDP: Rodriguez, A.
Team RISP: 1-for-8.
Team LOB: 7.

BASERUNNING
CS: Schafer (2, 2nd base by Alaniz/McCurdy).

FIELDING
DP: 2 (Schafer-Van Gurp-Stewart, Taveras-Schafer-Stewart).

AAA – Buffalo Bisons

Recently demoted Raul Valdes got the start of Dylan Owen and pitched fairly well.  He only lasted 4 innings, but struck out 7 and only made one mistake, a home run to Stefan Gartell.  Owen still pitched in the game by piggy backing Valdes and got hit hard yet again giving up 3 hits, all doubles and 2 runs.  he pitching only gave up 3 runs, but the Bisons still got the L as the offense did absolutely nothing getting just one runner into scoring position and 8 base runners on all game.

AA – Binghamton Mets

Nerves got the best of Mark Cohoon in the first inning of his first Double-A start.  He was downright awful in the inning throwing a wild pitch and giving up 4 straight hits with two outs to allow 3 runs to score.  He settled down after that and was almost flawless from the second to fifth innings facing just one batter over the minimum.  Things got heated again in the sixth when he loaded the bases on 3 straight singles.  It appeared he would get out of the inning when he struck out the next batter, but yet another 2-out hit allowed two runs to score before Roy Merritt came in to bail him out.  Luckily for Cohoon the offense was cooking tonight allowing him to pick up the victory.  The number nine hitter, Raul Reyes had the best night of his career getting 3 hits and 2 home runs after hitting just 3 home runs all year in St. Lucie.  Nick Evans couldn’t be stopped today with 4 extra base hits (3 doubles and a home run) and 2 RBI’s.

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

Shocker. After making 3 errors in last night’s ball game Wilmer Flores responded by committing yet another today.  Flores was playing a fairly decent shortstop in Savannah with positive reports from Mike Newman about better D so I’ll cut him some slack that he just needs time to adjust to his new team.  Brandon Moore did fairly well in his first HiA start, but nothing spectacular.  Carlos Beltran played 7 innings tonight, making 2 putouts and continuing to feast on the young pitching with 3 more hits and 2 RBI’s.

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

Collin McHugh was cruising along through 5 innings giving up a hit in 4 of the 5 innings, but never letting the base runner get further then second base.  He was doing pretty well in the sixth inning allowing a run to score on a sac fly and it appeared he was going to strand a runner at second base when he got the batter to pop up to first baseman Alex Gregory.  Gregory missed the catch allowing the runners to reach safely.  The next batter singled on a bloop to center field and then the blast came for a 3-run homer before McHugh struck out the last batter.  The offense did nothing tonight but that is understandable with two guys batting in the .100′s in the lineup.

SSA – Brooklyn Cyclones

A 7th inning play would come back to bite the Cyclones in the butt.  Only up by a run with a runner on first and two outs Cody Holliday hit a double into the gap, the third base coach sent Rylan Sandoval home, but on a perfectly executed relay throw Sandoval was thrown out to end the inning not giving the Cyclones best hitter, Darrell Ceciliani a chance to drive him in.  Then in the eighth Ryan Fraser came in with no outs and a runner on first to only walk the bases loaded.  He allowed one run to score on a sac fly with one out and then gave up a two out single to allow the winning run to score.  Two out RBI’s seem to be the theme tonight.

RK – Kingsport Mets

Jacob deGrom was a pitcher I was excited about so it is kind of upsetting to see him get shelled like this in his first start.  All but one hitter had a hit tonight, but none had more than 1 hit.

GCL – GCL Mets

AAA – Buffalo Bisons

AA – Binghamton Mets

Jenrry Mejia was on a 50-pitch pitch count so when he hit 45 pitches through 2.1 innings he was pulled. Expect the Mets to be very cautious with stretching his arm out.

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

SSA – Brooklyn Cyclones

RK – Kingsport Mets

GCL – GCL Mets

AAA – Buffalo Bisons

AA – Binghamton Mets

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

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.

AAA – Buffalo Bisons

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

AAA – Buffalo Bisons

Oh no it’s time to freak out Josh Thole only has one hit so far in the season! :p. Ike Davis is a TANK.
AA – Binghamton Mets

I’d say this is a positive outing from Eddie Kunz. He seemed to gas out a bit out the end and his command was eh, but he made up for it with terrific ground ball numbers thanks to his sinker and new change up.

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

Darin Gorski should be in the starting rotation. He is a relatively high pick with decent stuff. If Michael Antonini is still viewed as a starter I don’t see how Gorski isn’t.

Starting Lineup:

Nick Evans (lf) – Kirk Nieuwenhuis (cf)* – Carlos Guzman (rf)*

Shawn Bowman (3b)*-Jose Coronado (ss)-Hector Pellot(2b)*-Zach Lutz (1b)*

Shawn Riggans (c)

Bullpen:

Dylan Owen
Edgar Ramirez
John Lujan
Jose De La Torre*
Josh Stinson*
Roy Merritt*
Derrick Ellison

Infield:
Lucas Duda* – 1b
Jonathan Malo – UTIL
Luke Montz – C

Outfield:
D.J. Wabick*

There seems to be wayyyyy to many corner infielder’s on this roster.  It would have made more sense to send Bowman to Buffalo so that Lutz could start at 3rd and Duda could play 1st base.

Update: Word is that Nick Evans will be getting at-bats at first base not the OF. If this is the case then there is an bigger logjam for corner infielders than I thought on this team.

* Denotes players to watch

AAA – Buffalo Bisons

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Buffalo 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 0 Louisville 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 X 3 9 0 Recap | Box | W: Jukich (7-4, 4.35); L: Figueroa, N (6-5, 2.42); SV: Manuel (9) HR: None.

AA – Binghamton Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Connecticut 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 5 12 0 Binghamton 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 2 X 6 13 0 Recap | Box | W: De La Torre (1-0, 0.96); L: Paterson (2-4, 2.14); SV: Robertson, C (6) HR: CON: Pill 2 (11), Alderson (1), Schoop (1). BIN: Duda (7).

Rough start for Brad Holt who gave up 9 hits and 4 home runs.  Even though he walked none reports were that his command wasn’t great and he did have a high pitch count.  Good night for the offense with Emmanuel Garcia, Ike Davis, Josh Thole, and Jose Coronado had multi hit games.  Lucas Duda hit his 7th homerun and if he  squeeze in 6 more before the end of the season he could go from terrible power to slightly below average and raise his prospect status.

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E St. Lucie 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 11 2 Brevard County 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 X 5 7 2 Recap | Box | W: Rapoza (3-1, 2.23); L: Alvarez, Ma (3-3, 3.67); SV: Aguilar, O (3) HR: BRE: Gindl (12).

Decently encouraging stuff from Scott Moviel as he gave up only 4 hits and was able to keep the ball on the ground getting 6 groundball outs.  Reese Havens continues to hit since his return from the DL and if he gets his averagte up to .275ish with the power he is showing he becomes a B prospect.  A nice note is that Josh Stinson got all his outs via the K.

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Savannah 0 3 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 7 8 0 West Virginia 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 6 10 3 Recap | Box | | Game Story: WV W: Orta (1-0, 4.11); L: Alvarado (5-8, 5.23); SV: Cruz, R (19) HR: None.

Eric Beaulac was cruising along through 3 innings before imploding in the 4th inning giving up 4 runs in the inning after facing 6 batters and getting no outs.  Phillips Orta came in to bail him out and wound up picking up the win.  Jean Luc Blaquiere had the best offensive night putting up two doubles to go along with and RBI.

SSA – Brooklyn Cyclones

PPD – (Rain)

Rk1 – Kingsport Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Kingsport 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 7 11 2 Pulaski 1 2 0 2 2 0 1 1 X 9 14 4 Recap | Box W: Buckborough (2-0, 16.43); L: White, Jo (1-3, 7.97); SV: Valdez (2) HR: KNG: Flagg (4). PUL: Britton (6).

Darrell Ceciliani had the all around great game getting on base 4 times, driving in a run, and getting 2 outfield assists.

Rk2 – GCL Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E GCL Astros 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 2 8 16 0 GCL Mets 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 7 11 2 Recap | Box W: Schurz, M (1-0, 2.19); L: Valdez, S (0-1, 7.71); SV: Pio (1) HR: AST: Bryan, L (1), Hinze (1). MTS: Rodriguez, Ja (1).

Michael Hebert sighting!