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B-Mets Take 10-Inning Thriller from Thunder

June 20, 2010 - Eastern League (EL1)
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Jose Coronado evaded the tag of Trenton catcher Jose Gil on a Luis Hernandez sac fly to center, sliding Binghamton by the Thunder 10-9 in 10 innings Saturday night at NYSEG Stadium. The win ran the B-Mets' winning streak to four games and improved the team's extra-inning record to 5-0 in 2010. Eric Campbell led the B-Mets 18-hit attack with four hits, including a pair of homers. The third baseman scored three runs and drove in four.

Binghamton (34-34) carried a 9-6 lead into the ninth inning, when the Thunder wreaked havoc. Clint Everts came on in the ninth to nail down his third save. However, Justin Christian opened the inning with a double and scored on an RBI single from Austin Krum, cutting the lead to two.

Emary Frederick was summoned to put out the fire. Austin Romine, though, greeted him rudely with an RBI double to left, plating Krum to get Trenton within a run. After walking Brandon Laird, Frederick induced a double-play groundball from Daniel Brewer to get within an out of the save. Matt Cusick followed and roped a ball down the line at first. Nick Evans dove to stop it and flipped to Frederick, but the righty could not hold on to the throw, allowing Romine to score the tying run.

Trenton (40-26) stopper Grant Duff entered in the ninth and sent the game into extras despite allowing a leadoff single to Evans.

The Thunder threatened with two on and one out in the tenth against Frederick, but Edgar Ramirez bailed his bullpen mate out, recording the final two outs of the frame to bring Binghamton to the plate in the bottom of the tenth.

Duff remained on for the tenth and got the first hitter, Omir Santos, on a flyout to center. However, Josh Satin and Brahiam Malonado strung back-to-back bloop singles together to put runners at the corners. Then, Hernandez stepped to the plate with the infield and outfield drawn in and lifted a shallow fly to center. Coronado went back to tag as the ball was gloved by the rightfielder Daniel Brewer. Breaking for the plate, the throw beat Coronado, but the pinch-runner slipped his left hand past Gil on a head-first slide to tally the winning run.

The B-Mets jumped on Thunder starter Cory Arbiso in the third inning for three runs. D.J. Wabick and Satin provided RBI doubles and Hernandez rounded out the scoring with an RBI single to pit Binghamton a 3-0 lead after two.

Campbell smashed his first homer of the game in the third after Arbiso walked Marshall Hubbard with two outs. The two-run blast flew over the wall just inside the left-field foul pole, his fourth of the year.

Down 5-0, Trenton responded with a pair of homers off starter Scott Shaw in the fourth. Brandon Laird bashed the first of the two, a two-run shot to left, tying him for the Eastern League-lead with 15 long balls. Marcos Vechionacci delivered the second homer, a wall-scraper bomb to left, moving Trenton within two, 5-3. Shaw exited in the fifth after permitting three runs over four-plus innings.

Campbell again provided an answer with his second homer, a two-run job in the fifth off reliever Ryan Pope, upping the lead to four, 7-3.

Binghamton held a 9-4 lead after seven, but Trenton proved resilient. Gil left the yard to left with one man aboard in the eighth off reliever Eddie Kunz, bringing the margin down to three.

The 18 hits tied a season-best for the B-Mets. Edgar Ramirez was credited with the win, his third.

The B-Mets will seek the sweep in the finale of the three-game set Sunday at 1:05 PM. Binghamton ace LHP Mike Antonini (4-5, 4.26) will make the start and RHP David Phelps (5-0, 2.00) counters for Trenton. The radio broadcast on Newsradio 1290 WNBF begins at 12:50 PM with the Horizons Federal Credit Union Pre-Game Show.

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