PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 One night after allowing 17 runs, the St. Lucie Mets bounced back to defeat the Palm Beach Cardinals 5-2 at Clover Park on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals scored their only two runs on a homer by Brayden Smith off Mets starter Frank Camarillo in the second inning.<\/p>\n
Camarillo and the bullpen were otherwise excellent. Camarillo logged 5.0 innings and scattered four hits. He walked just one and struck out five while throwing 73 pitches.<\/p>\n
The Mets tied the game by scoring twice in the fourth inning. JT Benson hit a two-out RBI single to bring home AJ Salgado. Later in the frame Branny De Oleo hit a bases-loaded infield single to plate Benson to make it 2-2.<\/p>\n
Elian Pe\u00f1a started the Mets go-ahead rally in the seventh inning with a single off Jake Shelagowski. Later in the inning Julio Zayas hit a double to deep left-center field to score Pena for a 4-2 lead. Salgado followed with a RBI sac fly for a 4-2 advantage.<\/p>\n
Sam Biller provided an insurance run in the eighth with a RBI double.<\/p>\n
The Mets bullpen locked down the final four innings.<\/p>\n
Nate Lavender pitched a 1-2-3 sixth on MiLB rehab assignment.<\/p>\n
Elwis Mijares pitched a scoreless seventh and eighth to get the win. He struck out two.<\/p>\n
Tyler McLoughlin struck out two in a hitless ninth inning for his first save.<\/p>\n
Zayas led the offense by going 2 for 4 with the double and RBI.<\/p>\n
Pe\u00f1a was 1 for 3 with a single and two walks.<\/p>\n
Biller reached base three times on a double, walk and hit-by-pitch.<\/p>\n
The Mets (9-8) and Cardinals (12-5) play the third game of their series at Clover Park on Thursday. First pitch is 6:10 p.m. It\u2019s $2 Night with $2 select beer, hot dogs, fountain soda and popcorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 One night after allowing 17 runs, the St. Lucie Mets bounced back to defeat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,110],"class_list":["post-245635","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\/245635","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=245635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}