The Mussels’ Quentin Young hit a home run in the win over the Tampa Tarpons Wednesday.<\/p>\n
PHOTO PROVIDED<\/p>\n
FORT MYERS \u2013\u00a0The Fort Myers Mighty Mussels walked-off the St. Lucie Mets by a final score of 7-6 Thursday evening at Lee Health Sports Complex. The Mussels are now a season-high 11 games above .500.<\/p>\n
Minnesota Twins No. 14 prospect\u00a0Quentin Young\u00a0hit a walk-off solo home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to win the game. Young\u2019s ninth home run travelled to left-center field at 108.1 mph and bounced its way completely out of Hammond Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never know what\u2019s going to happen,\u201d the 19-year-old Young said. \u201cJust stay ready, stay composed and be ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is Fort Myers\u2019 (41-30, 4-2) fourth walk-off of the season and their third walk-off home run. The Mussels have had one walk-off in each of their last three homestands, dating back to late-May.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ryan Sprock\u00a0extended his historic hitting streak to 18 games with a two-run go-ahead single in the fourth inning. He sits one game behind\u00a0Mike Gonzalez\u00a0for second on the all-time list. Gonzalez hit safely in 19 consecutive games in 2014. Sprock has totaled 29 hits during his streak while batting .446 with a 1.237 OPS. The 29 hits by Sprock has already eclipsed the 27 from Gonzalez during his streak.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With one out in the first,\u00a0Ramiro Dominguez\u00a0reached on an error.\u00a0Jayson Bass\u00a0followed with a single to set up first and third. The duo then executed a double steal to make it 1-0. Later in the frame,\u00a0Luis Fragoza\u00a0doubled to left-center to make it 2-0<\/p>\n
Fort Myers sent\u00a0Ramiro Villanueva\u00a0to the mound to make his team-leading 10th start of the season. The 20-year-old righty cruised through the first three innings, facing the minimum on just 27 pitches. St. Lucie (35-36, 2-3) got to Villanueva in the third. Bronny De Oleo led off with a bunt single. Villanueva then struck out the next two batters. The Mets took the lead on three consecutive two out hits, going ahead 3-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mussels responded in their half of the third. The first four batters reached on a single, two hit by pitches, and a bases loaded walk to\u00a0Merphy Hernandez,\u00a0tying the game 3-3 and flipping the lineup over to Sprock. The Fort Myers\u2019 catcher connected on his streak-extending single, picking up two RBI while Hernandez also scored on an error at the end of the play to make it 6-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Villanueva exited after a season high five innings. He allowed three runs and struck out four Mets.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Callan Fang\u00a0relieved Villanueva in the sixth inning and registered bookend strikeouts to retire the side in order.<\/p>\n
After another 1-2-3 inning in the seventh, Fang allowed back-to-back baserunners to begin the eighth. The Mets played small ball to manufacture one run, cutting Fort Myers\u2019 lead to 6-4.<\/p>\n
Nick McAuliffe\u00a0(1-0) allowed a two-out, two-run single to tie the game after the Mussels intentionally walked a man to load the bases.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Young\u2019s blast off of Miguel Mejias (3-2) won the game for Fort Myers in the bottom of the ninth inning.<\/p>\n
The series continues today, June 26. Fort Myers will send\u00a0Jason Reitz\u00a0(2.63) to the mound, St. Lucie will counter with Jonathan Jimenez (5.14). First pitch is set for 7:05 p.m. with coverage beginning at 6:40 p.m. on the Mighty Mussels Baseball Network.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mussels’ Quentin Young hit a home run in the win over the Tampa Tarpons Wednesday. PHOTO PROVIDED…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-320880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320880","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=320880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}