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EL1 Binghamton Rumble Ponies

Thole Rips Season-Best Five Hits, Brown Stellar in Relief, B-Mets Walk-Off with 8-7 Win

May 14, 2009 - Eastern League (EL1)
Binghamton Rumble Ponies News Release


Josh Thole went 5-5 becoming the first B-Met to register a 5-hit game since Josh Pressley did so in June of 2004 and Eric Brown pitched a season-high 6.1 innings allowing only two hits to pick up the win in an 8-7 come-from-behind win over the Trenton Thunder.

The dramatics were saved for the end as Binghamton trailed 7-5 entering the last of the ninth. Thole led off with a single, his fifth hit of the night, and Josh Petersen followed with a game-tying two-run homer, his first of the season. After two groundouts, D.J. Wabick doubled and Carl Loadenthal walked bringing up Ruben Tejada, who scorched a grounder to second baseman Justin Snyder who booted the ball. It caromed into shallow centerfield allowing Wabick to score the winning run from second base.

Thole was 5-5 with a double and four singles, driving in a run and scoring twice. Mark Kiger went 3-4 with a two-run homer and tallied two runs.

Eduardo Nunez, who went 3-4 with 3 RBI, led off the game for the Trenton (15-16) with a home run to left field on the second pitch he saw from B-Mets starter Dylan Owen. Seth Fortenberry hit a three-run triple in the top of the second and Jorge Vazquez added an RBI single to give the Thunder a 5-1 lead.

Binghamton (15-17) cut the gap to 5-3 in the second on Kiger's dinger cracked over the left-center field wall. Thole followed with a double and scored on a base hit by Petersen to get the B-Mets within one at 5-4.

Nunez blooped a two-run single to left-center in the top of the third to give the Thunder a 7-4 lead. After Fortenberry walked, Owen was relieved by Brown who took it the rest of the way.

Owen struggled going a season-low 2.2 innings setting season-highs in runs allowed (7) and hits (8).

Wilkin De La Rosa started for Trenton and settled down after giving up fours in his first two innings to throw five and leave with a chance to win. Jonathan Hovis blew the save and took his first loss giving up three runs on three hits.

Binghamton takes on Trenton in the second game of the five-game series tomorrow. RHP Jose Sanchez (1-3, 6.23) will get the nod for the B-Mets and RHP Zach McAllister (1-1, 2.67) will go for the Thunder. The first pitch is slated for 7:05 the radio broadcast begins at 6:50 with the Horizons Federal Credit Union Pre-Game Show.

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