PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 The St. Lucie Mets held off a late rally by the Palm Beach Cardinals to win the Sunday series finale 5-4 at Clover Park. The Mets won the series 4-2. It\u2019s their first victorious home series of the year.<\/p>\n
Joe Scarborough got Brayden Smith to fly out to center field to end the game, stranding the tying run on third base and the go-ahead run on second base. The previous batter Ryan Weingartner hit a two-run ground rule double that would have tied the game had the ball not bounced over the fence in left-center field.<\/p>\n
The Mets scored two critical insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth inning. Yohairo Cuevas led off the inning with a double and scored on a single by Branny De Oleo. Sam Robertson later beat out a double play attempt with the bases loaded to plate Jeremy Rodriguez to give the Mets a 5-2 cushion.<\/p>\n
Scarborough was credited with his second save in eight days. He also got a win on Wednesday by protecting a one-run ninth inning lead.<\/p>\n
Mets starter Joel Lara was activated off the IL before the game and pitched 2.2 hitless innings.<\/p>\n
Justin Armbruester made his third MiLB rehab appearance and turned in 1.1 scoreless innings to get the win.<\/p>\n
Long man Emilio Obispo struck out seven batters over 3.1 innings. He scattered six hits, allowed two runs and threw 66 pitches.<\/p>\n
Six of the nine batters in the Mets lineup recorded a hit. No Met had a multi-hit game. Cuevas and Antonio Jimenez each went 1 for 4 with a double.<\/p>\n
Elian Pe\u00f1a was 1 for 3 with a single and a walk.<\/p>\n
Cardinals started Jacob Odle struck out eight batters in just 3.0 innings but he was tagged with the loss after giving up a two-out RBI double to Jimenez in the third inning that put the Mets up 1-0. The Mets held the lead the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
The Mets have won six of their last eight games. They finished their 12-game home stand 6-6 after a 0-4 start. All six wins were by one or two runs.<\/p>\n
The Mets (20-25) are off on Monday. They return to the diamond on Tuesday when they begin a six-game road series against the Bradenton Marauders. First pitch from LECOM Park on Tuesday is 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 The St. Lucie Mets held off a late rally by the Palm Beach Cardinals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,110],"class_list":["post-285988","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\/285988","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=285988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}