LAKELAND \u2013 The St. Lucie Mets won a hotly contested ballgame 3-2 over the Lakeland Flying Tigers on Saturday night at Joker Marchant Stadium. The Mets snapped a three-game losing streak. The Flying Tigers lead the series 3-2 ahead of Sunday\u2019s finale.<\/p>\n
With the game tied 2-2 in the top of the ninth, Sam Robertson started the Mets winning rally with a leadoff single to right field. Robertson then advanced two bases on a wild pitch by Yendy Gomez. Branny De Oleo launched a long double to left field to bring home Robertson for a 3-2 Mets lead.<\/p>\n
Ryan Dollar pitched a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth on just four pitches to lock down the save.<\/p>\n
Mets starter Jose Chirinos was excellent and efficient over 6.0 innings. He allowed just one run on a sac fly, did not walk a batter and struck out two. He threw just 67 pitches.<\/p>\n
The Mets took a 1-0 lead in the fourth when Chase Meggers hit a two-out RBI single to plate Randy Guzman, who led off the frame with a double.<\/p>\n
Simon Juan made it 2-0 in the fifth on a bloop single that scored Jamari Baylor.<\/p>\n
Jordan Yost got the Flying Tigers on the board in the sixth with a sac fly to make it 2-1. Two batters later Chirinos retired Carson Rucker on a fly out to finish the inning and his night on the mound.<\/p>\n
Mets reliever Emilio Obispo escaped a bases loaded jam in the seventh inning when he got Anibal Salas to hit a ground ball to Elian Pe\u00f1a at shortstop for a 6-3 inning-end double play.<\/p>\n
The first two batters of the bottom of the eighth inning reached against Obispo. He retired the next two hitters before walking Jack Goodman to load the bases. With an 0-2 count on Edian Espinal, Obispo awkwardly stepped off the rubber and was called for a balk that brought in the tying run. Obispo recovered to strike Espinal to keep the go-ahead run at third base.<\/p>\n
The Mets broke the tie two batters into in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Obispo (2-0) was credited with the win. He pitched 2.0 innings and gave up one run on three hits. He walked two and struck out two.<\/p>\n
JT Benson led the Mets in hits by going 2 for 4 with his FSL-leading fourth triple.<\/p>\n
The Mets (14-18) and Flying Tigers (17-15) conclude their series at Joker Marchant Stadium on Sunday afternoon. First pitch is 12:00. It is the final day of the Mets 12-game, 13-day road trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKELAND \u2013 The St. Lucie Mets won a hotly contested ballgame 3-2 over the Lakeland Flying Tigers on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,110],"class_list":["post-265459","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\/265459","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=265459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}