Big Day from Conforto not Nearly Enough for B-Mets

Reading Fightin Phils @ Binghamton Mets

June 7, 2015

Tom Windle @ Seth Lugo

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Reading	0	4	5	0	0	0	0	4	1		14	15	0
Binghamton	1	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0		5	10	3

W: Windle (2-3, 4.85 ERA); L: Lugo (2-3, 3.62 ERA)

MiLB.com Boxscore

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Seth Lugo – 5 IP, 8 H, 9 R (6 ER), 3 BB, 4 SO, 98 Pitches (57 Strikes), HBP, 3 GO: 5 FO

Julian Hilario (8.10 ERA) – 1 IP, BB, SO, 1 GO

Beck Wheeler (5.76 ERA) – 1 IP, H, 1 GO: 2 FO

Batters

Gavin Cecchini – 1-4, R, RBI (24), BB

Michael Conforto – 3-4, R, 2B (4), HR (1), RBI (8)

Brock Peterson – 1-3, RBI (5), SF, SO

L.J. Mazzilli – 1-4, R, 2B (1)

Eudy Pina – 1-4, R, 2 SO

Albert Cordero – 2-4, R, RBI (3)

Dustin Lawley – 1-1

Recap

            The B-Mets were blown out in the finale Sunday afternoon, as the Fightins clinched a series win with ‘two touchdowns’. Binghamton jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the 1^st, but their defense failed Lugo in the 2^nd, allowing the Fightins to jump ahead 4-1. The rally actually got started when the umpires mistakenly awarded Brodie Green a HBP on a pitch he fouled off – the ball ran in and Green protected himself with an excuse me swing, and then started acting like he was hit after he was awarded 1B. Things were made worse when Brock Peterson committed two fielding errors within 3 plays, and then a fourth run scored when J.P. Crawford doubled on a fly ball that deflected in-and-out of Pina’s glove in RF. Reading pulled away against Lugo with two outs in the 6^th, as 5 straights Fightins reached for 5 more runs. The B-Mets defense failed Lugo again in the 3^rd, as the inning should’ve ended with no runs allowed when Rene Garcia popped out to shallow LF, but both Cecchini and Conforto lost the ball in the sun, and it dropped in for a double. The triple came on a fly ball that landed just out of the reach of a diving Pina in right center field, and then rolled to the wall – Quinn had a chance to touch them all with his speed. Aside from Conforto’s first homerun in AA, the B-Mets offense was pretty much shut down the rest of the way, and then Reading added on with 4 against Kolarek in the 8^th and another run against Sewald in the 9^th. Kolarek’s magical run appears to have ended, as the league appears to have adjusted to his new arm slot.

            The B-Mets have a much needed off day Monday, but then head to Bowie for 3, which is one of the few Binghamton series that won’t be covered by MiLB.tv this year.

Scoring Highlights

            Michael Conforto doubled Gavin Cecchini (walk) to 3B in the 1^st, and then a Brock Peterson sac fly gave the B-Mets a 1-0 lead.

            Mazzilli led of the 2^nd with a double and scored after consecutive infield singles. Cecchini would single home Albert Cordero for the third run of the inning.

            Conforto hit a solo blast in the 5^th.

Pitcher Coverage

Seth Lugo

K1

K2

1-0 pitch

94 MPH heat to finish it

K3

Nice throw from the seat of his pants

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