TAMPA \u2013 The Tampa Tarpons swept a doubleheader against the St. Lucie Mets on Wednesday evening. Tampa won the first game 7-6 in eight innings, then defeated the Mets 7-4 in game 2. The doubleheader was created after Tuesday\u2019s game was moved due to a conflict with the BTS concert across the street from Steinbrenner Field.<\/p>\n
In game 1, the Mets could not hold a lead in the last inning for the second time in three games.<\/p>\n
The Mets jumped ahead 5-3 on a two-run homer in the sixth inning by JT Benson. But the Tarpons scored a run in the bottom of the sixth to cut the deficit to 5-4. In the bottom of the seventh Luis Durango hit a RBI single off Christian Rodriguez to tie the game 5-5.<\/p>\n
The Mets scored their free runner in the eighth inning on a long sac fly by Benson to go up 6-5.<\/p>\n
Engelth Urena hit a flair RBI single just off second baseman Sam Robertson\u2019s glove in the home eighth to tie the game 6-6. Two batters later Bryce Martin-Grudzielanek hit a RBI single off Elwis Mijares to bring home Urena for the winning run.<\/p>\n
Elian Pe\u00f1a went 2 for 4 with a double and run. AJ Salgado was also 2 for 4.<\/p>\n
Benson was 1 for 3 with a homer and three RBI.<\/p>\n
Mets starter Frank Camarillo pitched 5.0 innings, allowing three runs on three hits. He walked one and struck out seven.<\/p>\n
In game 2, Mets starter Conner Ware pitched a 1-2-3 first inning but the Tarpons would go on to score runs in each of their remaining five innings at the plate.<\/p>\n
Hans Montero hit a RBI double off Ware in the second inning for the game\u2019s first run. Brando Mayea hit another run-scoring double in the third inning to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n
Willy Montero hit a two-run homer vs. Ware in the fourth inning, then hit another solo home run off Zack Mack in the sixth inning as the Tarpons eventually built a 7-1 lead.<\/p>\n
The Mets scored three runs with two outs in the top of the seventh to make it interesting. Pe\u00f1a hit a ground ball off the second base bag that went for a RBI double. Edward Lantigua followed with a two-run double that made it 7-4.<\/p>\n
Jose Ledesma was able to get Randy Guzman to fly out to right field to end the game, stranding the potential tying run on deck.<\/p>\n
Ware took the loss, giving up four runs on five hits over 4.0 innings.<\/p>\n
Pe\u00f1a was 1 for 3 with a double, walk, RBI and run.<\/p>\n
Hans Montero went 3 for 3 with two doubles and three RBI. Willy Montero was 2 for 3 with two homers and three RBI.<\/p>\n
The Tarpons scored runs in nine of their last 10 innings at the plate across the doubleheader. The Mets fell to 1-3 in doubleheader games this season.<\/p>\n
The Mets (10-13) and Tarpons (10-13) will play a single nine-inning game on Thursday. First pitch at Steinbrenner Field is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2013 The Tampa Tarpons swept a doubleheader against the St. Lucie Mets on Wednesday evening. Tampa won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,110],"class_list":["post-253622","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\/253622","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=253622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}