EL1 Binghamton Rumble Ponies

Connecticut Takes Series

Published on May 4, 2008 under Eastern League (EL1)
Binghamton Rumble Ponies News Release


Fernando Martinez had three hits and Daniel Murphy drove in two runs, but the Binghamton Mets fell to the Connecticut Defenders 14-3 at NYSEG Stadium Sunday. The loss is Binghamton's second in a row and eighth in their last nine games.

Connecticut (14-15) saw their first eight men reach base against Jake Ruckle in the first, with Ben Copeland, Carlos Sosa, Adam Witter, Dave Maroul and Eddy Martinez-Esteve recording RBI hits for a 5-0 Defenders lead.

Binghamton (11-18) was able to get a run back in the bottom of the first. Connecticut starter Joey Martinez walked leadoff man Emmanuel Garcia, who moved to third on a Fernando Martinez single and scored on Daniel Murphy's sacrifice fly to cut Connecticut's lead to 5-1. However, Travis Ishikawa, Sosa and Maroul drove in runs off Ruckle (1-3) in the second to make it 8-1.

The B-Mets got to Martinez (1-3) again in the fifth. Jose Coronado drew a leadoff walk before reliever Salvador Aguilar bunted him to second. Garcia singled Coronado to third before he scored on a base hit to right by Martinez. Murphy followed with a single that scored Garcia to pull Binghamton within 8-3.

Connecticut added five more in the sixth on Sosa's two-run triple and Martinez-Esteve's three-run homer. Copeland's seventh-inning longball accounted for the game's final run.

Monday, the B-Mets begin a seven-game road trip with the first of four against the Reading Phillies. Lefty Jonathon Niese (2-2, 1.82) will start for Binghamton against Carlos Carrasco (2-2, 4.03) of Reading. The first pitch is slated for 6:35 p.m. at FirstEnergy Stadium with the radio broadcast beginning at 6:20 on Newsradio 1290 WNBF.

Notes: the B-Mets allowed 33 runs on 35 hits over the last two games of the series, raising CON's batting average 16 points...Ruckle lasted 1 2/3 innings, the shortest outing by a B-Mets starter since Marcos Carvajal lasted an inning 6/19/07 @ REA in a game suspended by rain in the top of the second...Aguilar tossed four innings of relief for the second time this season (also 4/21 vs. TRE).

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