The postseason is here folks. If you’re a Mets fan (and I’m guessing you are) this is as close to playoff baseball as you are going to get for the foreseeable future. The Subway Series for real was rained out in Brooklyn as the Cyclones are set to tilt with the Staten Island Yankees. A furious six game winning streak to close out the season, including a sweep of the Baby Bombers over the final weekend, almost got the Cyclones home field advantage for the playoffs. Instead, they finish at 45-29, good for second best record in the New York-Penn League and one half game behind SI. On to the High A FSL playoffs!
St Lucie 4, Bradenton 2 (St Lucie leads series 1-0)
The Lucies struck first in the best of three Divisional Series with a stirring comeback in Bradenton. The Marauders (a Pittsburgh Pirate affiliate) jumped out to a 2-0 lead off of Darin Gorski, who was very effective through seven innings (7IP, 2R, 6H, 1BB, 6K). In the sixth, Wilmer Flores doubled in a run to cut the lead in half, and the Mets tied it an inning later on a run scoring DP courtesy of Francisco Pena. Then in the ninth, Pena and Jose Coronado delivered back to back two out RBI doubles to seal the win. Jefry Marte and Cory Vaughn each had two hits. John Church pitched a scoreless eighth to pick up the win and Jeffrey Kaplan struck out the side in the ninth for the save. The series now shifts back to St. Lucie where the Mets, behind the right arm of Zach Wheeler, hope to put the series away and reach the Florida State League Championship Series.
6 comments
Paul J. Festa
9/7/2011-2:08am at 2:08 am (UTC -4)
Wallyball!
Peter
9/7/2011-2:32am at 2:32 am (UTC -4)
Or more accurately, Pedro-ball!
Bryan
9/7/2011-3:06am at 3:06 am (UTC -4)
I listened to the radio broadcast for this game, and things were not looking good at first as the Mets were completely shutdown for the first 5 innings by Bradenton starter Brandon Cumpton, but they managed to grind out a couple runs to tie as Darin Gorski got better as the game went on, although early on he benefited from a great play in the field by Wilmer Flores.
At first the Mets caught a bad break in the 9th when Pena’s double went over the wall for a ground rule double which prevented Marte from scoring from first, but Coronado (the 9th place batter) picked him up with a double off the glove of the centerfield to score the go ahead runs. Real exciting stuff! Now they have the advantage of being up a game, going home, and having Zach Wheeler in game 2.
Anonymous
9/7/2011-3:14am at 3:14 am (UTC -4)
flores tends to get a lot of negative stuf lately, but he does put up a lot of RBIs, FWIW. Wonder if he is going to have that break out season many people still think he is capable of?
A big start next year, and suddenly he is a ~22YO in AA, which is easily still considered young for a prospect that close to the show.
Just gotta figure out where he really is going to play. I think they should just move him to 3B unless he is getting to big to play over there too.
MetsFan4Decades
9/7/2011-12:11pm at 12:11 pm (UTC -4)
Really wish today’s game with Wheeler on the hill was televised somewhere. Oh well.
Go St. Lucie!
SaltyGary
9/7/2011-1:10pm at 1:10 pm (UTC -4)
I would much rather watch the next PSL game than the next Mets game. Why not promote what is currently happening.