EL1 Binghamton Rumble Ponies

B-Mets Mejia Masterful, One-Hit Fisher Cats, 5-0

Published on August 19, 2010 under Eastern League (EL1)
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Jenrry Mejia tossed a season-best seven innings and combined with Dylan Owen on a one-hitter, leading Binghamton past New Hampshire 5-0 Thursday night at Merchantsauto.com Stadium. Mejia did not allow a hit until the fifth inning, when Darin Mastroianni blooped a single into center. It was the B-Mets seventh shutout victory of the season.

Binghamton (60-62) took the upper hand two pitches into the affair. Jose Coronado ripped a double into the right-field corner on the first pitch of the game. Jordany Valdespin followed and swung at the first pitch from starter Rey Gonzalez, sending it into center for an RBI single, making it 1-0. After Valdespin was caught stealing, Josh Satin stroked a solo homer to right, upping the lead to 2-0. It was his fifth blast of the season and extended his hitting streak to 10 games.

New Hampshire (70-53) tried to muster a similar frame in the last of the inning. The B-Mets committed two errors and Mejia issued a walk to load the bases with two outs, but the 20-year-old Dominican got David Cooper on a comebacker to the mound to quell the Fisher Cats only substantial scoring threat.

The top of the lineup got to Gonzalez again in the fifth. Coronado led off with a ringing single to right, Valdespin moved the runner into scoring position with a groundout to first and Satin drove Coronado home with a double to the wall in right. Zach Lutz followed and dropped a bloop single into center. Satin attempted to score, but was thrown out at the plate by Mastroianni, allowing Lutz to reach second on the throw. From there, he would score on Salomon Manriquez's double off the wall in right, advancing the margin to 4-0 B-Mets.

Gonzalez exited to the loss after five innings of work. The Cuban-born righty allowed four runs on 11 hits to drop his fourth game with New Hampshire.

Mejia, by contrast, was unhittable and faced two over the minimum through his final six innings of work after the tumultuous first. Over seven innings, he allowed one hit, walked two and struck out a season-best eight men to pick up his first win with the B-Mets.

Brahiam Maldonado put the finishing touch on the B-Mets' scoring in the eighth. With two outs and facing former teammate Clint Everts, Maldonado clobbered a hanging slider out of the park to left for his 10th homer of the year. The bomb extended the lead to 5-0 and Maldonado's hitting streak to a season-high 10 games.

Dylan Owen replaced Mejia in the eighth and proceeded to retire the next six hitters in order to finish out the one-hit masterpiece. Owen and Mejia combined to retire the final 13 hitters that New Hampshire brought to the plate.

The B-Mets managed double-digit hits for the fifth straight game, totaling 14 against the Fisher Cats' staff Thursday. Jon Malo led the way with a 3-for-4 showing. Satin went 2-for-5 with a double, a home run and two RBI and has now hit in 19 of his last 20 games.

Binghamton has won four of its last five games and back-to-back series. The B-Mets return to NYSEG Stadium Friday night at 7:05 PM for the first of a three-game set with the Altoona Curve. LHP Robert Carson (1-4, 7.71) gets the call against LHP Justin Wilson (10-6, 3.13) of the Curve. The radio broadcast on Newsradio 1290 WNBF begins at 6:50 with the Horizons Federal Credit Union Pre-Game Show.

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