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EL1 Binghamton Rumble Ponies

B-Mets Fall To Akron

July 6, 2008 - Eastern League (EL1)
Binghamton Rumble Ponies News Release


Nick Evans homered and drove in a pair, but the Akron Aeros scored in five different innings for a 14-5 win over the Binghamton Mets at NYSEG Stadium Sunday. Binghamton has dropped three straight to Akron.

Akron (55-33) didn't trail after a three-run first. Wes Hodges opened the scoring with a two-run triple off Jose Sanchez before coming in on Matt Whitney's base hit up the middle. Brandon Chaves scored on a Sanchez (8-5) wild pitch in the second to put the Aeros ahead 4-0.

Evans got the B-Mets (48-40) on the board in the fourth, with a leadoff homer to left-center off Ryan Edell (5-5). However, Akron put the game away with a four-run fifth. Stephen Head doubled in a run before scoring on an error. Wyatt Toregas added a two-run double later in the frame for an 8-1 Akron lead.

Whitney doubled in a run in the seventh and Toregas hit a three-run homer to put Akron up 12-1. Jonathan Malo, Jose Coronado and Fernando Martinez connected on three straight singles in the bottom of the seventh, the latter scoring Malo with Binghamton's second run.

Hodges closed out Akron's scoring with a two-run homer in the eighth.

The B-Mets scored twice in the bottom of the eighth. After Mike Carp walked and Ambiorix Concepcion doubled, Salomon Manriquez singled both in.

Martinez led off the ninth with a double, later scoring on Evans' double for Binghamton's final run.

Sunday, the Binghamton Mets play the final game of a four-game series against the Akron Aeros. Lefty Jonathon Niese (5-6, 3.13) will start for Binghamton against Kevin Dixon (6-5, 4.42) of Akron. First pitch is scheduled for 1:05 p.m. at NYSEG Stadium with the radio broadcast beginning at 12:50 on Newsradio 1290 WNBF.

Notes: Trenton and Portland both lost, keeping the B-Mets in third place in the EL Northern Division, a game behind second-place Portland and five games behind Trenton...the B-Mets have lost three in a row for the first time since dropping four straight 5/25-28...10 of Akron's 16 hits were for extra bases...Evans now has 14 homers and 53 RBIs. Both totals are one shy of his totals for all of '07 with High-A St. Lucie...Hodges has hit five of his 10 homers this season against Binghamton.




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