I’m writing from the lobby of the Sheraton in downtown Oklahoma City because the internet went down in the Marriott where I was staying and the Renaissance wanted $12 per day. Bus to the airport in two and a half hours.
You know it’s a slow day when the two rookie level teams combine for more games than the rest of the Mets system.
Stars of the Day:
AAA: Anderson
Hernandez & Chip Ambres/Willie Collazo
AA: Off
A+: Off
A: Joe Holden/Jeremy
Mizell
SSA: ASB
R-App: Jose Jimenez
& Greg Veloz
R-GCL: Nathan
Vineyard…Richard Lucas
AAA – New Orleans
(Pacific Coast League)
Rock
Rock Express (54-67) 6, @ Zephyrs (64-58) 4 (11 innings)
Mike Pelfrey allowed four runs, three earned in five innings. He fanned two and walked two. Willie Collazo tossed four shutout innings after Pelfrey, while Ivan Maldonado surrended two runs in the 11th and took his first PCL loss.
Anderson Hernandez was 3-5 to push his season line to .292/.332/.387. Chip Ambres doubled, homered and drove home two runs.
AA – Binghamton
(Eastern League)
Mets
Off. The B-Mets host Altoona Tuesday.
A+ -- St. Lucie (
Mets
The FSL took Monday off, but it’s Pedro time again Tuesday.
A –
Sand
Gnats (17-32/37-82) 3, @ Lexington Legends (22-29/53-68) 1
Joe Holden’s two-run home run in the top of the ninth, his third hit of the night, broke a 1-1 tie and made a winner out of Jeramy Simmons as the Gnats took the first two games of the series from the Legends. Jeremy Mizell was strong over seven innings, allowing just one run on five hits. He fanned five and walked just one.
SSA – Brooklyn (New
York-Penn League)
Cyclones
Off for the All-Star Break.
SSA – Kingsport
(Appalachian League)
@
Mets (27-23) 7, Burlington Royals (28-23) 6
The K-Mets snapped a five game losing streak behind a big game from Jose Jimenez and Greg Veloz. Jimenez (.331/.397/.579 – age 20) was 3-4 with two doubles and a home run while Veloz (.278/.353/.490 – age 19) was 3-5 with a double.
R – St. Lucie (Gulf
Coast League)
@
GCL Marlins 4, GCL Mets 3 (7 innings)
@ GCL Marlins 4, GCL Mets 3 (7 innings)
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the Mets carried a lead into the latter innings, only to watch the Marlins score against the bullpen to pull out a late win. Ok, just relax – we’re only talking about the GCL where wins and losses are almost irrelevant. Well, that did happen in game one, when the Baby Fish overcame four of their own errors with two runs in the bottom of the seventh for the win, and then broke a 3-3 tie in game two with the winning run in the bottom of the seventh after the Mets had tied it up with two runs in the top of the seventh.
I am happy to report that Nathan Vineyard tossed three scoreless innings as the game one starter.
Richard Lucas (.274/.322/.363) was 3-4 in game two.
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