PORT ST. LUCIE) \u2013 The Dunedin Blue Jays defeated the St. Lucie Mets 13-6 on Sunday afternoon at Clover Park in the series finale between the teams. The Jays won the series 4-2.<\/p>\n
The Mets struck first on a two-run single by Simon Juan in the first inning. However, the Blue Jays would score 13 unanswered. In the top of the second inning JoJo Parker hit a two-run single and Blaine Bullard followed with a three-run home off Mets starter Joel Lara to make it 5-2 Jays.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays broke the game wide open with a six-run fourth against Felix Cepeda, Caden Wooster and Luis Alvarez. The Jays worked five walks in the inning and collected three hits, including a two-run single by Parker to go up 12-2.<\/p>\n
Jaxson West hit a solo home run in the fifth to make it 13-2. West previously singled in the fourth inning and doubled in the third inning.<\/p>\n
The Mets offense strung together six hits and scored four times in the seventh inning to cut the deficit to 13-6. Sam Robertson and Eddinson Paulino hit RBI singles. Chase Meggers had a double. Elian Pe\u00f1a and Julio Zayas were credited with sac flies.<\/p>\n
A highlight for the Mets pitching was A.J. Minter (lat) tossing a perfect inning of relief in the sixth on MLB rehab assignment. Minter struck out one and threw just seven pitches, all for strikes.<\/p>\n
Seven of the nine starters in the Mets lineup recorded a hit.<\/p>\n
Paulino went 2 for 4 and reached base three times. AJ Salgado was 2 for 3 with a pair of singles and a walk.<\/p>\n
Pe\u00f1a went 0 for 4 with a RBI as his seven-game hitting streak ended.<\/p>\n
Parker, the Blue Jays No. 2 prospect, went 3 for 4 with a double, four RBI and two runs.<\/p>\n
Diego Dominguez pitched 3.0 scoreless innings to claim the win.<\/p>\n
Lara took the loss. He was charged with five runs on two hits over 2.0 innings. He walked two and plunked three.<\/p>\n
The Mets (4-5) are off on Monday. They return to action on Tuesday when they begin a six-game road series at the Daytona Tortugas. First pitch from Jackie Robinson Ballpark on Tuesday is 6:35 p.m. Fans can listen live on stluciemets.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE) \u2013 The Dunedin Blue Jays defeated the St. Lucie Mets 13-6 on Sunday afternoon at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,110],"class_list":["post-229317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}