SYRACUSE, N.Y. \u2014 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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Scranton-Wilkes Barre struck first, scoring in the opening inning. After that, the RailRiders were silenced offensively until late in the game.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Syracuse opens a six-game series at Buffalo on Tuesday night. First pitch against the Bisons is set for 6:35 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYRACUSE, N.Y. \u2014 The Syracuse Mets (33-30) pulled out a series victory over Scranton-Wilkes Barre (31-31) with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-213331","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\/213331","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=213331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}