Mets Minor League Report :: Mets Minor League Report 5-7-08

I’m in LA, and have been in to the Mets two losses against the Dodgers Monday and Tuesday. Please, gang, just win Wednesday, before I leave town. I don’t want to have to feel like a jinx if I see each game of a sweep.

Stars of the Day:

AAA: Jesus Felciano

AA: Caleb Stewart & Nick Evans/The Bullpen

A+: Jamar Hill & Ezequiel Carrera/Dylan Owen

A: Matt Bouchard & Greg Veloz & Francisco Pena & Jose Jimenez

New Orleans (AAA – Pacific Coast League)

Fresno Grizzlies (18-14) 3, @ New Orleans Zephyrs (16-16, -4.5) 2

The Zephyrs lost their sixth game in a row to begin the month. Tony Armas (1-3, 3.02) gave up a pair of homers, a two run bomb in the first and a solo shot in the top of the sixth that provided the eventual winning margin. Armas fanned six and gave up six hits in 5.2 innings.

The Zephyrs rallied in the bottom of the sixth with a pair of runs, but fell a run short. Jesus Feliciano (.348/.376/.413) drove home the second Zs run in a 2-4 night.

Binghamton (AA - Eastern League)

Binghamton Mets (12-20) 2, @ Reading Phillies (15-16) 1 (12 innings)

Caleb Stewart lined a homer over the leftfield wall leading off the top of the 12^th inning to give the B-Mets a much needed victory. The only other B-Met run scored on a two-out solo homer run from Nick Evans in the 6^th that put the Mets ahead 1-0.

Reading tied the game with a run off Jose Sanchez in the bottom of the sixth and neither team scored again until the 12^th. Sanchez skirted six hits and three walks to only allow one run. The B-Mets bullpen of Eddie Camacho (1.2 IP), Eddie Kunz (2.0 IP), German Marte (1.2 IP) and Eude Brito (1.1 IP) had a very good night, combining on 6.2 scoreless innings of relief.

Reading left 16 men on base compared to Binghamton’s seven.

St. Lucie (A+ - Florida State League)

@ St. Lucie Mets (8-24, -13.0) 6, Lakeland Flying Tigers (16-16) 3

St. Lucie rallied to take the lead with two runs in the bottom of the seventh, and added two insurance runs in the eighth. In the seventh, CF Ezequiel Carrera began a two out rally with a single and stolen base and came home to tie the game on 1B Lucas Duda’s RBI single. Jason Jacobs, hitting for Ramon Castro singled to left to put St. Lucie up 4-3. In the eighth, 3B Leivi Ventura and RF Jamar Hill drilled back-to-back homers to give St. Lucie a little cushion. Both Ventura who was 3-4 and Hill who was 2-4 drove home two runs.

Dylan Owen (2-3, 3.93) had his best start of the season, striking out a season high seven batters in five innings. He gave up a run on four hits, but was not involved in the decision. In his second rehab appearance, Matt Wise struck out two Tigers in an inning of work. Ryan Coultas held down the final two innings for his first save of the year.

Savannah (A – South Atlantic League)

@ Asheville Tourists (23-10) 11, Savannah Sand Gnats (12-20, -12.0) 7

The Tourists scored nine times off three Savannah pitchers in the sixth inning to turn a 3-2 Gnats advantage into a 11-3 Tourist lead. Surely, Maikel Cleto, Wendy Rosa and Nick Waechter would like to forget about a very long inning in which eight of the first nine Tourists reached base safely.

The Gnats rallied for three runs in the ninth, and even got the tying run to the plate, but came up a little short. SS Matt Bouchard was 3-4 with an RBI and scored three times from the nine hole. 2B Greg Veloz was 2-5 with an RBI and two runs scored from the leadoff spot. C Francisco Pena was 2-5 for his third straight multi-hit game. Since bottoming out at .200/.250/.333 after April 18^th, Pena has hit safely in 12 of his last 13 games to lift his season line to .278/.314/.402. 1B Jose Jimenez was 2-4 with a pair of doubles.

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