EL1 Binghamton Rumble Ponies

Maine Impresses in Rehab Start, B-Mets Swept with 10-2 Loss

June 13, 2010 - Eastern League (EL1)
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John Maine allowed just one hit over four, shutout innings in a Major League rehab start and Eric Campbell roped three hits, including a homer, but Binghamton dropped their third straight game to the Trenton Thunder 10-2 at Waterfront Park Sunday afternoon. Maine struck out five Thunder hitters and departed after reaching his pitch limit.

Maine, making his first rehab outing since being placed on the Disabled List May 21, walked the first hitter he faced on four pitches before settling in. The 29-year-old righty faced three over the minimum.

Trenton (38-23) starter Hector Noesi was equally as good, dueling Maine in scoreless fashion through four. Brad Holt, who was displaced as result of Maine's rehab outing, entered in the fifth as a piggyback starter.

After hurling a scoreless fifth, Holt hit a wall in the sixth. With one out, Daniel Brewer doubled to the gap in left. Holt put the next two hitters on base via walks to load the bases. After a visit from pitching coach Mark Brewer, Holt hit Edwar Gonzalez with a pitch to force in the game's first run. The floodgates opened from there. Jose Gil cleared the bases with a three-run triple to right and then scored on Luis Nunez's double into the left-field corner. With five runs home, Holt was pulled in favor of Manuel Alvarez.

Alvarez allowed Nunez to score courtesy of an RBI single from Justin Christian, capping the sixth-inning scoring and closing the book on Holt, who was charged for six runs in 1 1/3 innings to take the loss, his fifth.

Binghamton (30-33) responded in the seventh inning for the first of their two runs. With one out, Campbell blasted a fastball from Noesi over the wall in left for his second Double-A homer. The solo shot made it 6-1 and broke an 18-inning, scoreless streak for the B-Mets.

The Thunder continued their offensive onslaught in the seventh inning, despite a steady rain. Gonzalez roped a two-run homer to left off reliever Clint Everts to put the lead at seven, 8-1. It was his second homer of the year.

After two more runs came across in the eighth, Binghamton found itself in an insurmountable hole of 10-1. That did not dissuade the B-Mets from putting up a fight in the ninth against Noesi, who was trying for the complete game. Three straight reached against the Dominican righty, capped by an RBI single from Campbell, producing the 10-2 final score.

Noesi's complete-game was the first of its kind for Trenton this season. The righty scattered nine hits, struck out six and walked just one to improve to 3-0 in four starts with the Thunder.

Gonzalez and Gil managed three-RBI days and Justin Christian and Brandon Laird both ripped a pair of hits to lead the 10-hit Trenton charge.

The B-Mets are now 0-7 at Waterfront Park this season. After a scheduled off-day Monday, Binghamton will continue their road trip with the first of a three-game series at The Diamond against the Richmond Flying Squirrels Tuesday at 7:05 PM. LHP Mike Antonini (4-4, 4.02 ERA) gets the call in Game 1 against LHP Clayton Tanner (3-4, 3.72) of Richmond. The radio broadcast on Newsradio 1290 WNBF begins at 6:50 PM with the Horizons Federal Credit Union Pre-Game Show.

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