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Aguilar Pitches B-Mets To 1-0 Victory
6/12/2008

Salvador Aguilar tossed a season-high seven shutout innings, helping the Binghamton Mets to a 1-0 win over the Harrisburg Senators at NYSEG Stadium Thursday.  The victory ends Binghamton’s two-game losing streak, as they finish their six-game homestand with a 4-2 mark.

For most of the game, Aguilar (7-1) was locked in a pitchers’ duel with Harrisburg’s Marco Estrada.  Estrada struck out six over six scoreless innings, while Aguilar held the Senators to two hits, fanning six as well.

The B-Mets (35-30) didn’t break the scoreless tie until the seventh.  Salomon Manriquez greeted reliever Luis Atilano with a leadoff single.  Josh Petersen then laid down a bunt that Atilano (0-1) threw into centerfield for an error.  Two batters later, pinch-hitter Daniel Murphy walked, loading the bases for Eric Reed.  Reed followed with a line-drive single to left, scoring Manriquez.

Harrisburg (36-28) was kept off the scoreboard by relievers Eude Brito, who tossed a 1-2-3 eighth, and Eddie Kunz, who worked around two errors in the ninth to notch his 16th save in 18 chances.

Friday, the Binghamton Mets open a three-game series against the New Britain Rock Cats.  Tobi Stoner (St. Lucie: 1-5, 2.60) will start for the B-Mets against Jay Rainville (5-6, 7.58) of New Britain.  The first pitch is slated for 6:35 p.m. at New Britain Stadium with the radio broadcast starting at 6:20 on Newsradio 1290 WNBF.

Notes: Binghamton has played three 1-0 games this season, winning two (also 4/7 vs. AKR) and losing one (5/10 @ CON).  Dating back to 2006, the B-Mets have won seven of their last eight 1-0 games…the B-Mets tossed their eighth shutout, which ties them with TRE for the EL lead…Aguilar is the third B-Mets starter to work seven innings, along with Bobby Parnell (5/13 vs. NB) and Jake Ruckle (4/29 vs. NB).

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