Quentin Young homered and drove in four runs in the Mussels win Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
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PORT ST. LUCIE\u00a0\u2013 Quentin Young homered and drove in four runs as the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels defeated the St. Lucie Mets 12-9 Wednesday afternoon at Clover Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a game that saw 20 combined runs on 27 total hits, the Mighty Mussels (48-41, 11-13) scored five runs in the seventh inning to take the lead for good over the Mets (42-48, 9-15) and level the series at one win apiece.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mussels\u2019 catcher\u00a0Luis Hernandez\u00a0opened the scoring with a solo homer in the top of the second. In the bottom of the frame, a misplay by\u00a0Jayson Bass\u00a0led to a leadoff triple for Mets No. 24 prospect Randy Guzman. He later scored on a sacrifice fly to tie the game 1-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fort Myers responded in the top of the third.\u00a0Ramiro Dominguez\u00a0walked with one out. Bass followed with a single to right, setting up first and third.\u00a0Luis Fragoza\u00a0then pulled a ball into the left field corner for a sacrifice fly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mets got right back to work off Mussels\u2019 starter\u00a0Callan Fang\u00a0in the third, plating two runs on two hits to take a 3-2 lead. Fang would exit after 2.2 innings and a season-high 57 pitches. He issued four walks in the frame and\u00a0Jonathan Stevens\u00a0came into a bases loaded jam with two outs. Stevens induced a groundout to retire the side.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Still trailing 3-2 in the fifth,\u00a0Luis Fragoza\u00a0reached on a dropped third strike to begin the inning. A double from\u00a0JP Smith II\u00a0set up second and third. Minnesota Twins No. 12 prospect\u00a0Quentin Young\u00a0then tied the game with a sacrifice fly to deep right field. A hit-by-pitch of L. Hernandez kept the line moving.\u00a0Harry Genth\u00a0then pulled a two-run go-ahead single to left, making it 5-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Once again, the Mets responded in the bottom of the frame, scoring four runs on five hits and retaking the lead 7-5. St. Lucie strung together three consecutive hits with two outs off of Stevens.<\/p>\n
The Mussels got two of the runs right back in the sixth, re-tying the game 7-7 on an RBI single from Smith and a wild pitch from new Mets\u2019 reliever Ernesto Mercedes (1-3).<\/p>\n
Appearing in his first game in 33 days,\u00a0Jake Murray\u00a0(5-2) bent but didn\u2019t break in the bottom of the sixth. Murray loaded the bases on three singles, but escaped the jam with a strikeout and a flyout to keep the game tied.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the seventh, Genth drew a leadoff walk.\u00a0Ricardo Pena\u00a0then connected on his first home run of the season, making it 9-7. Later in the frame, Young blasted an opposite field three-run shot to extend the lead to 12-7. Fort Myers sent nine men to the plate in the inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adam Falinski\u00a0(S3) covered the final three innings and allowed a pair of unearned runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The series continues with a doubleheader Thursday, July 23. Fort Myers will be the designated home team in the second game, which is makeup from June 27. First pitch of game one is scheduled for 4 p.m. with coverage beginning at 3:45 p.m. on the Mighty Mussels Baseball Network.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quentin Young homered and drove in four runs in the Mussels win Wednesday afternoon. PHOTO PROVIDED PORT ST.…\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-348994","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\/348994","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=348994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348994\/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=348994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}