Game Recap and Highlights: Strong Pitching Lifts Hammerheads to 4-1 Win Over St. Lucie Mets

 

Lugo hits 6th homer of season 

JUPITER, Fla. (July 23, 2022) – The Jupiter Hammerheads pitched another strong game in a 4-1 victory over the St. Lucie Mets on Saturday at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium. (Box Score) 

Miami Marlins reliever Anthony Bender made a rehab start for Jupiter and pitched 1.1 scoreless and hitless innings before being replaced by Gabe Bierman. 

Bierman (5-4) logged 5.2 innings and surrendered just one run on a solo home run by William Lugo. 

Joey Steele pitched a perfect eighth and ninth with three strikeouts for his first save. 

Jupiter took a 1-0 lead in the third inning on a two-out RBI single by Javier Sanoja off Mets reliever Raimon Gomez. 

Lugo launched his sixth homer of the season in the fourth inning to tie the game 1-1. 

Yiddi Cappe lifted a sac fly in the fifth inning against Benito Garcia that gave the Hammerheads a 2-1 lead. 

Jupiter added two insurances runs off Saul Gonzalez in the eighth inning to ice the game. Carlos Santiago ripped a run-scoring single and Federico Polanco scored on a wild pitch. 

The Mets were held to just four hits for the second straight game. Lugo was 2 for 3 with a homer and double. He has the only extra base hits for the Mets in the series. 

Mets starter Franklin Sanchez pitched two perfect innings with two strikeouts. 

The Mets have lost five in a row and have mustered just one run, the Lugo homer, in their last 22 innings. 

The Mets (51-37, 11-12) and Hammerheads (46-41, 12-11) play their series finale on Sunday. First pitch is 12 p.m. at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium. 

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