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Offense Once Again Leads B-Mets To Victory At Erie
4/12/2008

The Binghamton Mets were up by as many as 10 runs, but the Erie SeaWolves scored seven unanswered before Binghamton held on for an 11-10 victory at Jerry Uht Park Saturday.  The win is Binghamton’s second straight.

All nine B-Mets reached base during a six-run first.  Andrew Kown began the frame by walking Fernando Martinez and Emmanuel Garcia before Daniel Murphy singled in Martinez.  Nick Evans followed with a triple, scoring Garcia and Murphy for a 3-0 Binghamton lead.  Mike Carp followed with a single to score Evans before Kown (1-1) hit Salomon Manriquez with a pitch.  Ambiorix Concepcion and Jose Coronado followed with base hits, the latter scoring Manriquez.  The ninth-place hitter, Josh Petersen, capped off the scoring with a single that brought in Concepcion.

Binghamton (6-4) added two more in the third when Carp doubled and scored on Manriquez’s two-run homer to right for an 8-0 advantage.  Later in the inning, Coronado reached on a two-out error and scored on Petersen’s double to center to make it 9-0.

Three straight singles in the fourth stretched the B-Mets lead to 10 runs, with Carp’s hit bringing in Murphy.

Erie (6-4) was unable to solve B-Mets starter Jake Ruckle until the fifth.  After Max St. Pierre led off the frame with a homer, Ryan Roberson singled and scored on Kody Kirkland’s double to center.  Kirkland later came home on Freddy Guzman’s fielder’s choice, cutting Binghamton’s lead to 10-3.  Ruckle (1-0) lasted six innings and was charged with two earned runs.

Carp’s solo homer in the sixth capped off Binghamton’s scoring and pushed the lead to 11-3.  The DH picked up four hits for the second straight game, driving in three runs and scoring twice.

However, Erie scored four times in the seventh, with Guzman and Wilkin Ramirez picking up RBIs before Deik Scram brought in two with a single.  Eddie Kunz came on in the ninth and allowed a base hit to Guzman and a walk to Will Rhymes before Max Leon scored both with a double to left-center to get Erie within 11-9.  After Scram singled, Leon scampered home from third on a wild pitch that moved Scram to second.  Kunz then hit St. Pierre with a pitch, putting the potential winning run on base.  But, the righthander settled down and got Roberson to fly out before striking out Kirkland looking to end the game.

Sunday, the B-Mets wrap up their four-game series at Erie.  Jonathon Niese (1-0, 0.82) will start for Binghamton against fellow southpaw Danny Christensen (0-1, 7.71) of Erie.  Game time is 1:05 from Jerry Uht Park with the radio broadcast beginning at 12:50 on Newsradio 1290 WNBF.

Notes: Ruckle, who threw 5 2/3 shutout innings in his Double-A debut Mon. vs. AKR, began his B-Mets career with 9 2/3 scoreless frames…the B-Mets alternated wins and losses through their first nine games, a stretch that ended with their win today…the B-Mets have scored 36 runs and banged out 51 hits in the first three games @ ERI.  However, the B-Mets have also allowed 33 runs on 38 hits.

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