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K-Mets Blow out Johnson City 9-1

August 25, 2014 - Appalachian League (ApL)
Kingsport Axmen News Release


KINGSPORT, Tenn. (August 12, 2014) - Less than a week remains in the Appalachian League regular season, and the Kingsport Mets remain in the thick of the playoff chase.

The K-Mets pulled into a tie for second place in the West Division with Sunday's 9-1 walloping of the Johnson City Cardinals. Kingsport (33-30) and Johnson City (33-30) are deadlocked, 2 1/2 games shy of division leader Elizabethton.

Only the two top teams in each division qualify for the postseason, so the stakes are high for the K-Mets and Cardinals for the remainder of this three-game series. They play the next round on Monday night at 7 p.m.

The Redbirds weren't deep fried but they certainly were battered on Sunday. Kingsport pounded out 17 hits, eight of them in the sixth inning as they took a 9-0 lead. One of those eight hits left the ballpark-a towering home run by Ivan Wilson, his 11th, to take over sole possession of the league lead in home runs.

Kingsport batted around off Cardinals reliever Jeff Barkley, who came on to begin the sixth inning and stayed on the mound the rest of the way despite throwing de facto batting practice to the Mets for the entire sixth.

Oswald Caraballo had the biggest line at the plate among the K-Met hitters. He went 4-for-5 with two runs scored and three RBIs. Wilson also drove in three runs. Eudor Garcia had three hits, a run scored and an RBI out of the cleanup spot. Garcia also made an impressive running grab in foul territory to record an out in the eighth inning. Wilson, Vicente Lupo, Zach Mathieu and Jose Garcia added two hits apiece for the Mets.

Persio Reyes pitched with a lead for most of the evening and threw seven innings of shutout baseball to post his first win of the 2014 K-Mets campaign. Reyes (1-0) allowed three hits and a walk, fanning six.

K-METRIC: Wilson's stat line is a real curiosity. He leads the league in home runs (11) and has 72 total bases; only Wuilmer Becerra, Kingsport's sole representative on the Appy All-Star team, has more. Wilson's got a .426 slugging percentage, 225 percent higher than his .189 batting average.

NOTES: Ty Williams and Ramon Estevez each threw an inning of relief behind Reyes. ... Christian Muscarello homered to lead off the ninth and account for Johnson City's only run. ... Each team turned two double plays.

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