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Branden Fryman hit his first career Triple-A home run on Friday night for Syracuse (Herm Card - herm4444@gmail.com).
Syracuse, NY – The Syracuse Mets plated plenty of runs on Friday night but were bested by a loaded Louisville Bats (Triple-A Cincinnati Reds) lineup as Syracuse fell, 15-8, to Louisville on a sunny Friday night at NBT Bank Stadium. The Bats have now taken the first four games in the week-long, six-game series.
Louisville (25-23) plated a run
in the top of the second inning when Matt Reynolds singled to start the frame
and then scored on a TJ Hopkins RBI double for a 1-0 lead.
Syracuse (19-30) wouldn’t take
that lying down. The Mets scored three times in the bottom of the second inning
to take a 3-1 lead. After a flyout to start the inning, Lorenzo Cedrola singled
to put a runner on base with one out. The speedy Cedrola then pranced all the
way home on an RBI double from Carlos Cortes, his third double of the week,
knotting the game, 1-1. After a Nick Meyer groundout, Branden Fryman pounded a
two-run home run over the left-field wall to surge the Mets to a 3-1 lead. It
was the first career Triple-A homer for Fryman.
From there, the scoring
onslaught began for the Bats. Louisville scored in each of the next four
innings, scoring ten runs from the third through sixth innings to take a
commanding 11-3 lead. In the third, they sent nine men to the plate while
scoring four times. In the fourth, they scored two more times on an Elly De La
Cruz two-run homer. In the fifth, Alejo Lopez went deep to tack on another run
via a solo home run. Finally, the Bats sent nine more men to the plate in the
sixth to score three more runs on four hits. By the seventh inning, the Bats
had already scored 11 runs on the night via 13 hits.
In the seventh and eighth,
staring down an 11-3 deficit, the Mets mounted a rally. Syracuse scored twice
in both innings to slim the deficit to 11-7 entering the top of the ninth. In
the seventh, Jaylin Davis hit a two-run home run to extend his hitting streak
to ten games. In the eighth, Luis Guillorme added an RBI double as part of the
pair of runs that crossed home plate. Guillorme reached base four times in the
game with two hits plus a walk and a hit by a pitch.
In the ninth, Louisville pulled
away with four runs via some prodigious power. Leading off the inning, De La
Cruz and Christian Encarnacion-Strand both launched back-to-back home runs to
score two runs in the blink of an eye for a 13-7 advantage. De La Cruz, widely
considered one of the top prospects in all of baseball, has hit three home runs
combined in the last two games. Encarnacion-Strand has now homered twice this
week and finished Friday night’s game with a double, a home run, two walks and
three runs scored. Later in the ninth, the Bats added on via RBIs from TJ
Hopkins and Michael Siani for a 15-7 lead. Hopkins was brilliant in Friday
night’s game, going 4-for-6 with three singles, a double and five runs driven
in.
By the end of the ballgame,
Louisville had every single batter reached base at least once while seven of
their batters reached base at least three times. The Bats have scored 45
combined runs in the first four games of the series on 59 hits.
In the bottom of the ninth,
Syracuse scored its final run on a two-out, RBI single from Nick Meyer to make
it a 15-8 ballgame. The Mets offense was no slouch of its own on Friday night,
scoring eight runs on 13 hits. Each of Syracuse’s nine starters also reached
base at least once in the game and eight of the nine batters had at least one
hit. However, the Mets left ten more runners on base in the loss. Syracuse has
left 31 runners on base in the first four games of the series.
Syracuse is home all week at NBT Bank Stadium, taking on the Louisville Bats. Game five of the six-game series is set for a 6:35 p.m. first pitch on Saturday night. Left-hander David Peterson is slated to start on the mound for the Mets, opposed by right-hander Brett Kennedy for the Bats.
A Carlos Cortes double 🤝 the speed of Lorenzo Cedrola
— Syracuse Mets (@SyracuseMets) May 26, 2023
We tie the came up 1-all in the second! pic.twitter.com/EWc3viAIrY
Branden Fryman’s first career AAA home run is a two-run 💣 that gives us the lead! 3-1 SMets in the second pic.twitter.com/sJOzWzna96
— Syracuse Mets (@SyracuseMets) May 26, 2023
For the 9th time this year, top-ranked @Reds prospect Elly De La Cruz has liftoff 🚀
— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) May 26, 2023
The 21-year-old phenom has amassed a 1.023 OPS for the @LouisvilleBats.
Watch what he does next FREE: https://t.co/aKtGFgWBY3 pic.twitter.com/AhtREXvC8j
Luis Guillorme: magic
— Syracuse Mets (@SyracuseMets) May 27, 2023
He’s been on base four times tonight, including this RBI double 🪄
11-6 Bats in the eighth pic.twitter.com/oyIJhTGaTz
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