BRADENTON \u2013 The St. Lucie Mets won their first extra innings game of the season, beating the Bradenton Marauders 6-3 in 10 innings on Saturday night at LECOM Park. The Mets now lead the series 4-1 and clinched their second consecutive winning series.<\/p>\n
The game went to the 10th tied 2-2. AJ Salgado came off the bench and belted a pinch hit RBI triple to give the Mets a 3-2 lead. Salgado then slid home safely to beat a throw by first baseman Luke Scherrer on a ground ball hit by Elian Pe\u00f1a to put the Mets up 4-2.<\/p>\n
Randy Guzman hit a RBI single and Julio Zayas capped the inning with run-scoring ground out to make it 6-2 Mets.<\/p>\n
Christian Rodriguez walked Antonio Pimentel with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th which cut the Marauders deficit to 6-3. Rodriguez recovered to strike out pinch hitter Eddie King Jr. looking to end the game.<\/p>\n
Mets starter Emilio Obispo pitched a career-high 5.0 scoreless innings on just 56 pitches. He gave up two singles, did not walk a batter and struck out seven in a no-decision.<\/p>\n
Mets reliever Joel Lara pitched a scoreless sixth inning but the Marauders scored against him in the seventh with two outs when Scherrer scored from third base on a passed ball. It was the first run against the Mets pitching staff in 23 innings.<\/p>\n
Josh Tate hit a RBI single off Miguel Mejias in the eighth inning to tie the game 2-2. It was the first earned run against the Mets since Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Mejias pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to force extras and was credited with the win.<\/p>\n
Guzman started the scoring for the Mets when he belted a two-out solo home run off Bradenton starter Levi Sterling in the first inning. It was Guzman\u2019s team-leading ninth homer of the season.<\/p>\n
The Mets scored their second run on a double steal in the third inning when Pe\u00f1a swiped second base and Jeremy Rodriguez scampered home from third base on the throw to second.<\/p>\n
Guzman led all hitters in the game by going 3 for 5 with a homer, two singles and two RBI.<\/p>\n
The Mets (24-26) and Marauders (24-25) wrap up their six-game series at LECOM Park on Sunday. First pitch is set for 12:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRADENTON \u2013 The St. Lucie Mets won their first extra innings game of the season, beating the Bradenton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,110],"class_list":["post-293062","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\/293062","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=293062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}