LAKELAND \u2013 The Lakeland Flying Tigers scored six runs in the seventh inning of Sunday\u2019s series finale to soar to an 8-3 win over the St. Lucie Mets at Joker Marchant Stadium. Lakeland won the series 4-2. The Mets went 4-8 on their season-long 12-game road trip.<\/p>\n
Sunday was tight for the majority of the game. Chase Meggers delivered a RBI single with one out in the top of the seventh to tie the game 2-2. Meggers was later thrown out at home plate by right fielder Anibal Salas trying to give the Mets a lead.<\/p>\n
Lakeland took control immediately in the bottom of the seventh. Sergio Tapia hit a leadoff home run against Elwis Mijares to put Lakeland back in front, 3-2. Mijares would later walk Carson Rucker with the bases loaded to force in another run to make it 4-2.<\/p>\n
Joe Scarborough replaced Mijares and struck out Jude Warwick for the second out. But Javier Osorio and Edian Espinal hit back-to-back two-run singles to give Lakeland an 8-2 lead and put the game out of reach.<\/p>\n
Elian Pena went 2 for 4 with two singles, a walk and a RBI in his best game of the series.<\/p>\n
Simon Juan went 3 for 4.<\/p>\n
Mets starter Daviel Hurtado (2 IP, 1 R, 4 K) and long reliever Nicolas Carreno (4 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 7 K) combined for 11 strikeouts over the first five innings of the game.<\/p>\n
The Mets (14-19) are off on Monday. They return to Clover Park on Tuesday to start a 12-game, 13-day home stand. First up is a six-game series against the Jupiter Hammerheads. First pitch on Tuesday is 6:10 p.m. It is Silver Sluggers Night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKELAND \u2013 The Lakeland Flying Tigers scored six runs in the seventh inning of Sunday\u2019s series finale to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,110],"class_list":["post-269310","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\/269310","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=269310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}