EL1 Binghamton Rumble Ponies

Duda Homers, B-Mets Fall Short of Rock Cats 6-5

Published on May 30, 2009 under Eastern League (EL1)
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Lucas Duda roped his second home run of the season and the B-Mets hammered out 11 hits, but Dylan Owen's season-long struggles continued on the mound contributing to a 6-5 loss at New Britain Stadium Saturday night. Owen allowed 6 runs on 10 hits in five innings to take his fifth loss.

Binghamton (21-25) lead 4-3 heading into the bottom of the fifth inning, but that lead was short-lived. Danny Valencia singled to start the inning and was followed by a one-out single from Erik Lis to put two on for Rene Tosoni. Owen hung a 2-1 slider to the Rock Cats' rightfielder and Tosoni hooked it over the right-field wall to give his team a 6-4 lead.

The B-Mets would scrap across a run in the sixth inning on a broken-bat RBI double from Emmanuel Garcia off reliever Frank Mata that plated Josh Petersen to make it 6-5. However, that was as close as the B-Mets would get.

Rob Delaney and Anthony Slama threw the final three innings scoreless for New Britain (24-24) striking out five. Slama picked up the save despite allowing a leadoff single to Josh Thole in the ninth by inducing a 6-4-3 double play off the bat of Lucas Duda to end the game and secure the save, his 10th.

Early on, the Rock Cats lead 1-0 through an inning, but the B-Mets were quick to answer in the second as Duda doubled off the wall in centerfield off starter Jay Rainville to open the inning. Then with one out, D.J. Wabick slapped a one-out single past the drawn in third baseman Valencia to score Duda and tie the score.

Duda's homer came in the fourth after Nick Evans had walked to open the inning. The long shot into the New Britain night tied the game at three.

Binghamton's only lead came in the fifth as the first three to bat in the fifth reached against Rainville, culminated by Thole's RBI single up the middle to score Ruben Tejada who had doubled to open the frame.

Rainville threw 5.2 innings giving up five runs, but still managed to pick up his second win thanks to his team's timely run support.

Five men output two-hit games for the B-Mets including Tejada, who went 2-4 with a double and a run scored to extend his hitting streak to a season-best seven games.

The two teams will play the rubber match of the three-game set tomorrow afternoon. RHP Jose Sanchez (1-5, 5.88 ERA), who is coming off his longest start of the season will go for Binghamton and New Britain will toss LHP Ryan Mullins (2-6, 4.74 ERA). The first pitch is slated for 1:35 and the radio broadcast on Newsradio 1290 WNBF begins at 1:20 with the Horizons Federal Credit Union Pre-Game Show.

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