SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse Mets (33-30) pulled out a series victory over Scranton-Wilkes Barre (31-31) with a 4-3 victory on Sunday at NBT Bank Stadium.
After Daniel Duarte opened the game with a scoreless inning for the Mets, Zack Thornton followed it up with five scoreless innings. Thornton allowed just two hits and struck out five. Tobias Meyers also worked two-plus innings in relief, allowing just one hit, one unearned run, and one strikeout.
Scranton-Wilkes Barre struck first, scoring in the opening inning. After that, the RailRiders were silenced offensively until late in the game.
The Mets broke through offensively in the bottom of the sixth. Jihwan Bae doubled to open the inning and a Matt Rudick single scored him to tie the game 1-1.
In the bottom of the eighth, a sacrifice bunt from Ryan Clifford brought home Bae to give the Mets a 2-1 lead. Later on in the inning, Rudick hit a two-run homerun to right center field to give the Mets a 4-1 lead.
Scranton scored twice in the top of the ninth, but Dylan Ross struck George Lomard Jr. with the tying and go-ahead runs on base to secure the win for the Mets, 4-3.
Syracuse opens a six-game series at Buffalo on Tuesday night. First pitch against the Bisons is set for 6:35 p.m.