SYRACUSE, N.Y. \u2014 The Syracuse Mets (29-27) salvaged a series with the first-place Rochester Red Wings with an 11-6 victory on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Mets used a six-run fourth inning and a three home run day to propel them to victory. <\/p>\n
On the mound, Jack Weisenburger made the start for Syracuse and allowed just one run over four and a third innings pitched. Weisenburger struck out five. <\/p>\n
The Mets opened the scoring in the top of the fourth. Kevin Parada smacked a two-run single with the bases loaded, scoring Andy Ibanez and Yonny Hernandez. Later in the inning, Matt Rudick hit an RBI single to score Cristian Pache; and the Mets weren’t done yet. New York’s No. 11 overall prospect, OF Nick Morabito, smacked a three-run home run to left field to make it 6-0 Syracuse. It was Morabito’s fifth homer of the season.<\/p>\n
The Syracuse offense just kept pouring it on.<\/p>\n
In the top of the fifth, the Mets’ No. 3 overall prospect, OF\/1B Ryan Clifford, smacked a solo homerun to right to put Syracuse ahead 7-1. It was Clifford’s sixth home run in his last 11 games and his team-best 13th of the season.<\/p>\n
Jackson Cluff also hit a solo shot in the top of the sixth to make it 8-1 Syracuse.<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the seventh, Rochester cut the deficit to 8-6. But, the Mets scored two more runs in the top of the ninth to win it, 11-6.<\/p>\n
Syracuse sits in third place in the International League East at 29-27. <\/p>\n
The Mets return home this week for a seven-game series with Scranton-Wilkes Barre, the Triple-A affiliate of the New York Yankees. <\/p>\n
The Mets will host a doubleheader at NBT Bank Stadium on Wednesday, with the first game beginning at 4:05 p.m. Other series highlights include Dollar Thursday and postgame fireworks on both Friday and Saturday nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYRACUSE, N.Y. \u2014 The Syracuse Mets (29-27) salvaged a series with the first-place Rochester Red Wings with an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-207522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}