Portland 8, Binghamton 2 The Binghamton Mets committed five errors and dropped the series-opener to the Portland Sea Dogs, 8-2, Monday night at Hadlock Field. Binghamton’s five misplays matched a season-high and led to seven unearned runs. The poor defense started early behind B-Mets starter Jacob DeGrom. With one out in the first, Alonzo Harris failed to catch a long fly ball in...
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DAVID WRIGHT, 3B MMO PLAYER OF THE WEEK David Wright finally took flight for the 2013 season this past week, as he lifted off with two home runs in Colorado. The Mets captain had been hitting well to start the year, but was not producing much in the way of power until he entered the thin Colorado air. Wright batted .350/.519/.850, with two triples, two home runs, and five RBI as he helped lead...
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Colorado Springs 8, Las Vegas 7 It was an up and down night for the Las Vegas 51s that ended on a low note as they fell to Colorado Springs in walk off fashion, going down in a wild one 8-7. Mets rotation hopeful Collin McHugh took the hill and had himself a day he’d like to soon forget. Going just 5 1/3 innings, McHugh surrendered four runs on a whopping 13 hits while walking none and...
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St. Lucie 1, Charlotte 0 This was not a game for the offensive minded fans but Hansel Robles was sharp in this one en route to a St. Lucie victory. Robles started on Sunday and went the first six innings while scattering three hits and two walks. He struck out six and allowed no earned runs, and the St. Lucie bullpen – Jim Fuller and Chasen Bradford – finished up the game...
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Jim Callis of Baseball America had little fun this morning with his mailbag piece and fielded the following interesting question: If you had to make a 25-man roster using at most one player from any farm system, what would it look like? To make it more interesting, let’s say that the team doesn’t have to be competitive this year, so far-away prospects are fine if that’s who you want. C: Mike...
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