Mets Minor League Report: Pitching Lifts St. Lucie, Brooklyn Walked Off Twice

Jose Chirinos delivered a quality start, and Ryan Dollar locked down the save as Branny De Oleo's go-ahead ninth-inning double lifted St. Lucie past Lakeland 3-2. Zach Thornton's six-inning outing was wasted in Syracuse's 7-4 loss to Rochester. Brooklyn dropped both ends of a doubleheader to Bowling Green, falling 7-6 in 10 innings despite John Bay's home run, then 6-5 as Yonatan Henriquez, Ronald Hernandez, and Trace Willhoite each homered. Binghamton's game was postponed.

Mets Transactions

• New York Mets signed free agent RHP Xzavion Curry to a minor league contract.
• New York Mets signed free agent RHP Brady Miller to a minor league contract.

Two Home Runs Not Enough As Syracuse Falls 7-4 To Rochester

Syracuse fell 7-4 to the Rochester Red Wings despite home runs from Christian Arroyo and Jackson Cluff. Yonny Hernández led the offense with a pair of singles and two RBI, both driving in Cristian Pache, who reached three times and scored twice. Cluff added a hit and a run on his solo blast, and Arroyo finished 1-for-4 with his ninth-inning shot.

Zach Thornton turned in a quality start, working six innings and allowing three runs on five hits with two walks and four strikeouts. Rochester scratched out a run in the first on a leadoff RBI double, then took a 3-0 lead in the third on a two-run home run.

Syracuse responded in the bottom of the fifth. Pache reached on a hit by pitch, advanced on a single by Ben Rortvedt, and scored when Hernández singled to center to make it 3-1. Cluff cut the deficit further with a solo home run in the sixth.

Rochester pulled away in the seventh with a pair of solo home runs off Ryan Lambert, who finished his lone inning with two earned runs allowed. Hernández brought home Pache once more in the bottom of the seventh. The visitors broke the game open in the top of the ninth when Jonathan Pintaro gave up a single and walked a batter, and a Cluff throwing error allowed two runs to score on a fielder's choice. Arroyo's solo home run in the bottom of the ninth capped the scoring. Syracuse stranded only two runners and committed one error.

Binghamton Game Postponed

The Binghamton Rumble Ponies' scheduled game was postponed.

Brooklyn Falls 7-6 To Bowling Green In Walk-Off 10th

The Brooklyn Cyclones lost 7-6 to the Bowling Green Hot Rods in 10 innings on a walk-off single. John Bay finished 3-for-5 with a home run, two RBI, and two runs scored, while Vincent Perozo went 3-for-4 with a home run, three RBI, and a run. Colin Houck reached twice and scored twice, and Sam Biller and Yonatan Henriquez each added a hit.

Noah Hall worked four innings as the starter, allowing four runs on four hits with four walks, six strikeouts, and two home runs. Bowling Green struck for a leadoff RBI double in the first, a solo shot in the third, and a three-run blast in the fourth. Hoss Brewer followed with two scoreless innings of relief, striking out three.

The Cyclones rallied behind their bullpen. Bay's solo home run in the sixth cut the deficit to 4-2, and Perozo's two-run home run in the seventh tied it at four after Houck reached on a single. Brooklyn grabbed the lead in the eighth when Bay singled in Henriquez, and Perozo's RBI single in the ninth scored Houck for a 6-5 advantage.

Hunter Hodges walked two and hit a batter in the bottom of the eighth, allowing the tying run to come around to score on the hit by pitch. Felix Cepeda surrendered an RBI double in the ninth that knotted the game at six, and the zombie runner came home in the bottom of the 10th on a leadoff single off Cepeda for the walk-off. Brooklyn stranded seven runners.

Walk-Off Homer Sinks Brooklyn 6-5 In Game Two

The Brooklyn Cyclones dropped game two of the doubleheader 6-5 to the Bowling Green Hot Rods on a leadoff walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh. Yonatan Henriquez, Ronald Hernandez, and Trace Willhoite each launched home runs for the visitors. Sam Biller went 3-for-3 with a double from the bottom of the order, and Daiverson Gutierrez added a double, scored a run, and reached on a single.

Danis Correa worked a clean first inning with two strikeouts, but Parker Carlson took the brunt of the damage out of the bullpen. Carlson surrendered four runs on five hits in 1 2/3 innings, including a three-run home run in the second that put Bowling Green up 3-0. The Hot Rods added another in the third on a wild pitch.

Henriquez homered to right in the fourth to break the shutout. Tanner Witt followed Carlson and finished 2 1/3 innings, allowing one earned run on a fifth-inning double-play groundout while striking out three and issuing three walks. Hernandez ripped a two-run home run in the sixth that brought home Henriquez and trimmed the deficit to 5-3. Willhoite tied the contest 5-5 in the seventh with a two-run home run that scored Gutierrez.

Juan Arnaud took the mound in the bottom of the seventh and yielded a leadoff solo home run on his first batter, ending the contest. Brooklyn collected eight hits and three home runs, stranded only three runners, and did not commit an error. Mitch Voit, Henriquez, Hernandez, Gutierrez, Willhoite, and Biller each contributed hits.

De Oleo's Ninth-Inning Double Lifts St. Lucie 3-2 Over Lakeland

Branny De Oleo's go-ahead double in the top of the ninth gave the St. Lucie Mets a 3-2 win over the Lakeland Flying Tigers. JT Benson collected two hits, including a triple, and De Oleo finished 1-for-4 with the game-winning extra-base hit. Sam Robertson, Chase Meggers, Randy Guzman, and Simon Juan each contributed a hit. Leadoff man Elian Peña reached three times on a single and two walks.

Jose Chirinos turned in a quality start, working six innings and allowing one run on four hits with no walks and two strikeouts. The Mets opened the scoring in the top of the fourth when Guzman doubled with one out and came around to score on Meggers's RBI single. They added another in the fifth as Jamari Baylor reached on a throwing error and scored from third on Juan's RBI single to center.

Lakeland chipped one back in the sixth on a leadoff triple, and a sacrifice fly off Chirinos, then tied the contest in the eighth on a wild pitch by Emilio Obispo with the bases loaded.

The decisive frame came in the top of the ninth. Robertson singled to right, and De Oleo doubled to center to bring him home for a 3-2 lead, though De Oleo was caught stealing home for the third out before Peña could come up. Ryan Dollar closed out a clean ninth for the save. Obispo earned the win with two innings of relief. St. Lucie left eight runners on base and committed one error.

Top-20 Prospect Performance

1. Nolan McLean: DNP
2. Carson Benge: DNP
3. A.J. Ewing: 0-for-4, K
4. Jonah Tong: DNP
5. Ryan Clifford: 0-for-4, 2 K
6. Jacob Reimer: DNP
7. Jack Wenninger: DNP
8. Elian Peña: 1-for-3, 2 BB
9. Mitch Voit: 1-for-9 in DH (0-for-5, 3 K and 1-for-4, 2 K)
10. Nick Morabito: 0-for-4
11. Jonathan Santucci: DNP
12. Chris Suero: DNP
13. Zach Thornton: 6 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 2 BB, 4 K, HR
14. Wandy Asigen: DNP
15. Will Watson: DNP
16. Eli Serrano III: DNP
17. Ryan Lambert: 1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 0 BB, K, 2 HR
18. Dylan Ross: DNP
19. Antonio Jimenez: DNP
20. R.J. Gordon: DNP

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