Ronny Mauricio had two hits and two RBIs on Saturday night. Mauricio has 22 multi-hit games this season. (Rick Nelson)
Norfolk, VA – The Syracuse Mets came out swinging early but did not hold the momentum, falling 12-7 to the Norfolk Tides (Triple-A Baltimore Orioles) on Saturday night at Harbor Park. Syracuse now has a disappointing 9-8 record this season when scoring at least seven runs.
Early on, Syracuse (18-26)
roared out to a lead with five runs in the first two innings. In the top of the
first, the Mets scored twice to jump in front. Danny Mendick and Ronny Mauricio
started the frame with singles, and although DJ Stewart struck out, Mendick and
Mauricio swiped third and second base respectively to put two runners in
scoring position with one out. The next batter, Jaylin Davis, singled sharply
into left field to score both runners and make it a 2-0 ballgame.
In the second, the Mets added
to the lead with three more runs. The fun all began with two outs. BrandenFryman reached on an error that extended the inning, followed by singles from
Oscar Campos and Mendick that plated Fryman and put Campos on third and Mendick
on first with still two outs in the inning and a 3-0 Syracuse lead. The biggest
blow was yet to come. After a wild pitch moved Mendick to second, Mauricio
slashed a double to left field that scored both runners and made it a 5-0 game.
Mauricio had another multi-hit game on Saturday, finishing the evening with two
more hits. Remarkably, Mauricio has multiple hits in 22 of his 44 games in
Triple-A this season.
Norfolk (31-12) briefly crawled
closer in the bottom of the second via a solo home run from Josh Lester to make
it 5-1, but Syracuse answered right back with two runs in the top of the third
to take a 7-1 lead. Luis Guillorme walked to start the third, and after a
Jonathan Araúz popout, Guillorme sprinted all the way home when Lorenzo Cedrola
tripled to left field to give the Mets a 6-1 edge. Later in the inning, Campos
singled home Cedrola to push the cushion to six runs for the Mets, 7-1. Campos
made his season debut with Syracuse on Saturday night. Guillorme was also
brilliant on Saturday night, going 3-for-4 with two doubles, a walk and a run
scored.
From there, everything went
downhill. The Tides tied up the game seemingly in the blink of an eye, scoring
six runs in the bottom of the third to make it a 7-7 game. Norfolk sent ten men
to the plate in the pivotal inning, utilizing some powerful hitting to score
their flurry of runs. The Tides only had four hits in the frame, but they made
them count. Jordan Westburg, Lester, and Anthony Bemboom all doubled in the
inning, driving in a combined three runs in the process. The biggest blow of
the frame, however, came off Lewin DÃaz’s bat. The former member of the
Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp pounded a three-run homer that capped off the
inning’s scoring and tied the game with one swing, 7-7.
In the bottom of the fourth,
the Tides went right back to work, scoring two more times to take their first
lead of the night at 9-7. The inning got off to an inauspicious start. Connor
Norby doubled to start the inning. However, he was promptly picked off second
base for the first out of the frame. From there, Westburg walked and moved to
second base on a one-out single from Kyle Stowers. A strikeout of Lester had
the Mets dreaming of escaping the frame unscathed, but it wasn’t to be. Daz
Cameron doubled to left field with two outs, scoring Westburg and Stowers in
the process and giving the Tides a lead they would never relinquish.
Norfolk capped off their
scoring with two more runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and a final lone
run in the eight. DÃaz walked with one out in the seventh to reach base,
promptly moving to third on a two-bagger from Robbie Glendinning. Bemboom then
singled to score both baserunners and turn it into an 11-7 game. In the eighth,
a Westburg single followed by a Lester double later in the inning capped off
the night’s scoring and made it a 12-7 game. By the end of the ballgame, all
but one of the Tides starters had at least one hit and four of them had at
least two hits. Five different Norfolk batters also drove in runs in the
game.
While the Norfolk offense
hummed in the later innings, the Syracuse offense felt silent after the early
onslaught. The Mets did not score in the game’s final six innings, recording
just four hits in the process. An old problem reared its ugly head once again
on Saturday night as well as Syracuse left 12 runners on base. The Mets have
left 28 runners on base combined in their three losses so far this week.
Syracuse finally finishes its
two-week, 12-game long road trip on Sunday afternoon. The final game of the
six-game series at the Norfolk Tides is set for 1:05 p.m.
Ronny Mauricio with an infield single in his first at-bat tonight for the @SyracuseMets - he later stole second as part of a double steal and came in on a 2 RBI single from Jaylin Davis. He is now hitting .360 with a 1.007 OPS. #Mets #LGM #MetsTwitter @ernestdove… pic.twitter.com/PpkqNPuFU8
— Mets News and Links (@JohnFromAlbany) May 20, 2023
The Ronny Mauricio show continues with a 2 run double in his 2nd at bat. Per @TrickyCNS7 on the @SyracuseMets broadcast - 22 multi-hit games - 1/2 of his 44 games this year #Mets #LGM #MetsTwitter @ernestdove @MiLBMetsMadness @bkfan09 @mikemayer22 @Upper_Beck @TimothyRRyder pic.twitter.com/Uj3KIYKzhh
— Mets News and Links (@JohnFromAlbany) May 20, 2023
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