FORT MYERS \u2013 The Fort Myer Mighty Mussels won a high scoring affair 12-8 against the St. Lucie Mets on Summer Camp Day at Lee Health Sports Complex on Wednesday afternoon. The series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n
One night after going 0 for 11 with runner scoring position, the Mussels took advantage of their opportunities on a hot afternoon. They bashed out 16 hits, worked nine walks, scored a run on a wild pitch and went 7 for 21 with RISP.<\/p>\n
The Mets held four separate leads throughout the game but could not hold onto any of those leads for long. Jackson Hauge hit a two-out, two-run single in the eighth inning to put the Mets up 8-7. However, the Mussels scored five runs in the bottom of the eighth to take control of the game.<\/p>\n
Jayson Bass delivered the big blow, belting a two-run go-ahead homer off Joe Charles with no outs in the inning to put the Mussels up 9-8. Byron Chourio would lace a two-run single off Joe Scarborough later in the inning to open up an 11-8 lead. Ryan Sprock capped the inning with a RBI single to make it 12-8.<\/p>\n
Sprock reached base all six times from the leadoff spot. He went 3 for 3 with a double and three walks. He is riding a 17-game hitting streak, the third longest in Mighty Mussels history.<\/p>\n
Seven of the nine batters in the Mets lineup recorded a hit in the loss. Simon Juan, Jeremy Rodriguez and Hauge had two hits apiece.<\/p>\n
Chase Meggers went 1 for 2 with a home run, two walks and three runs scored.<\/p>\n
Mets starter Cam Tilly pitched 3.0 innings and allowed two runs on four hits. He walked two and struck out three.<\/p>\n
Charles took the loss after surrendering four runs in 0.1 innings. The Mets bullpen was tagged for 10 runs on 12 hits with seven walks in five innings.<\/p>\n
The Mets (2-2, 35-35) and Mighty Mussels (3-2, 40-30) play the third game of their series at Hammond Stadium on Thursday. First pitch is 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS \u2013 The Fort Myer Mighty Mussels won a high scoring affair 12-8 against the St. Lucie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,110,563],"class_list":["post-318994","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","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318994","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=318994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}