Syracuse, NY – The Syracuse Mets collected a time-superior 15 hits even though the pitching staff racked up a time-large 16 strikeouts as Syracuse finished off its six-match sequence versus the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in design, riding to an 11-4 win on a sunny and warm Mother’s Day Sunday at NBT Financial institution Stadium.
The activity remained in doubt getting into the bottom of the seventh inning, as the Mets led by just a slender 5-3 margin. Syracuse (10-19) still left no question in its very best offensive inning of the period, pounding out 6 runs on eight hits to roar out to an 11-3 guide that effectively iced the game. The Mets, remarkably, commenced the frame with 7 consecutive hits.
Some highlights from the memorable seventh inning – Khalil Lee supplied an RBI double, Mark Vientos had a two-run solitary, and Nick Dini slapped a one into middle discipline that scored an additional run. Just about every of those people a few players scored multiple runs in the match, with Dini crossing household plate 3 moments all round on the afternoon.
Early on in the sport, Syracuse starting up pitcher David Peterson grabbed the headlines. The left-hander, who has invested the season primarily in the Key Leagues, starred in his 2nd get started of the time with Syracuse, functioning 5 scoreless innings with 8 strikeouts and only four hits permitted. Peterson fanned 7 of the 8 batters by way of swinging strikeout. He also labored all around opportunity trouble brilliantly, stranding seven IronPigs on the basepaths.
Spurred on by Peterson’s superb begin, the Mets gave him some run aid. Syracuse obtained ideal to it, plating a run in the top rated of the 1st on an RBI double from Patrick Mazeika. The two-bagger introduced home Wyatt Young, who had singled to lead off the inning.
Syracuse scored once again in the fourth on a solo house run by Dini, as his to start with homer of the period produced it a 2- edge for the Mets.
Syracuse made it an even larger guide with a 3-run prosper in the sixth inning. The body was marked by household operate energy. Initial, Mark Vientos slapped an reverse-industry household run about the correct-discipline wall to score Lee and make it 4-. Then, Dini did it all over again, launching a no-doubt bomb about the still left-area wall to make it 5- Syracuse. The two homers marked the 1st of the season for Dini. It was also the first time this period that Syracuse experienced a player strike two household operates in just one game.
Lehigh Valley (17-13) briefly put some fear again in the significant Mother’s Day group, as Austin Wynns strike a a few-operate residence operate with two outs in the seventh to make it a 5-3 ballgame. Wynns completed the recreation with three hits, which includes one more excess-base strike (a double) in the fifth inning.
Irrespective of the transient Lehigh Valley comeback, Syracuse’s six-run base of the seventh inning put the match out of achieve. Lehigh Valley did score a person a lot more operate in the prime of the eighth to total the game’s scoring at 11-4, but the IronPigs’ afternoon was marred by skipped alternatives. By the finish of the activity, Lehigh Valley remaining ten runners on the basepaths. In reality, the IronPigs still left at least a single runner on base in all but a person inning.
Syracuse’s pitching workers matched the outstanding offense by the Mets hitters with a time-high performance of its own. Four pitchers (David Peterson, Anthony Vizcaya, Alex Claudio, and Collin Holderman) put together to enthusiast 16 Lehigh Valley batters, a new season-significant for the Syracuse pitching staff. In simple fact, 12 of the 16 IronPigs batters that struck out did so in swinging manner. Holderman finished the activity with a flourish, placing out the side in the best of the ninth to secure the victory for Syracuse.
Syracuse now hits the street for two months, setting up with a six-game series at the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders subsequent week. Initial pitch of the collection opener on Tuesday night time is slated for 6:05 p.m.