Syracuse, NY – Syracuse Mets starting pitcher Jesús Reyes made his best start of the season, throwing six scoreless innings to lead Syracuse to a 6-0 win over the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre RailRiders at NBT Bank Stadium on Friday night. Reyes only allowed three hits while triggering three thugs.
Syracuse (25-50) struck first with a run in the bottom of the second inning. Khalil Lee worked a leadoff walk, and then Cheslor Cuthbert caught a mistake from Scranton / Wilkes-Barre pitcher Josh Maciejewski, who delivered a throw in second and tried to pull Lee back. After Martin Cervenka took a walk to load the bases, Albert Almora Jr. struck a sacrificial fly to hit Lee and improve the Mets 1-0.
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Syracuse added two more runs in the lower third of the third. Wilfredo Tovar performed with a double. After Travis Blankenhorn struck, Patrick Mazeika delivered Mets with an RBI single to make it 2-0. Lee followed with a walk, and then Cuthbert hit a single and scored Mazeika to give Syracuse a 3-0 lead.
In the closing stages of the fourth, Travis Blankenhorn faced a solo homerun to score the 4-0 result in favor of the Mets. It was Blankenhorn’s fifth home run of the season with Syracuse.
The Mets extended their lead in the bottom of the sixth, starting with an Almora Jr. leadoff single. After Payton was flown out, Tovar walked, and then Blankenhorn hit a single-run single and scored Almora Jr. to increase the lead to 5-0. Mazeika followed with an RBI groundout to 6-0 Mets.
Scranton / Wilkes-Barre (47-25) was handicapped by the Syracuse pitching team. The bullpen followed Reyes with three scoreless innings of his own. Yeizo Campos made his triple-A debut, delivering two goalless innings in which he did not allow hits and only ran one. Franklyn Kilome hit the ninth, went one, and knocked one out.
The Mets and RailRiders return for the fifth game of the series at NBT Bank Stadium on Saturday night. The first pitch is at 6:35 p.m. and the gates open at 5:30 p.m.
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