6/19 Minor League Report! STONER, TEJADA, ANTONINI, CLETO!

New Orleans 1, Iowa 4

Willie Collazo had a decent outing today, going 6 innings, allowing 3 runs on 8 hits, but his offense did nothing for him, so he took his 4th loss of the season.

The offense managed just 4 hits and 1 run, the run coming off Gustavo Molina's bat, a solo shot in the 8th. 4 different players had hits, 4 others went 0-fer, Anderson Hernandez (0 for 4, K, .182), Chris Aguila (0 for 4, 2 Ks, .302), Raul Casanova (0 for 3, K, .382) and Raul Gonzalez (0 for 3, .333)

Argenis Reyes (2b) 1 for 4, .291
Val Pascucci (rf) 1 for 2, BB, .316
Gustavo Molina (c) 1 for 3, run, HR, RBI, .241
Abraham Nunez (3b) 1 for 3, K, .191
Willie Collazo 6 IP, 8 H, 3 ER, BB, 6 Ks, HR, 3.96 era, L (4-4), 99:65:34, 6:6:6
Ivan Maldonado IP, H, ER, K, HR, 3.86 era, 20:12:8, 1:1:1
Carlos Muniz IP, 2 Ks, 3.08 era, 13:11:2, 0:1:2

Binghamton 3, Erie 2

Tobi Stoner was in line for his first AA win, until Tim LaVigne stepped onto the mound in the 9th, with a 2-1 lead. LaVigne allowed a solo homer, blowing the save and denying 420 his first AA win, despite a very good game (6 ip, 5 h, er, 5 k). Eric Brown and Eude Brito pitched in between Stoner and LaVigne.

Mike Carp, after terrorizing the EL for the first half of June, is now 0 for his last 8, dropping his average 12 points to .350. In fact, the top 3 in the Bingo order (Reed (.250), Evans (.302), Carp (.350)) went 0 for 12. Josh Petersen (.327) and Emmanuel Garcia (.213) also took 0-fers, both going 0 for 3. The offense came out of the middle 3 batters, Stewart, Concepcion and Manriquez went a combined 7 for 10 with 3 runs, 2 2b, a HR and 2 RBI.

Nick Evans (1b) 0 for 4, .302
Mike Carp (lf) 0 for 4, .350
Caleb Stewart (dh) 3 for 4, 2 runs, 2b, K, .275
Ambi Concepcion (rf) 1 for 3, run, HR, 2 RBI, BB, .252
Saloman Manriquez (c) 3 for 4, 2b, K, .286
Jose Coronado (ss) 1 for 3, .263
Tobi Stoner 6 IP, 5 H, ER, BB, 5 Ks, HR, 1.64 era
Eric Brown IP, H, BB, K, 6.43 era
Eude Brito 0.1 IP, 2.75 era
Tim LaVigne 1.2 IP, 2 H, ER, K, HR, 3.31 era, BS (1), W (1-0)

St. Lucie 5, Vero Beach 2

Ruben Tejada had a breakout game in St. Lucie, getting on base 5 times in 6 trips with 3 singles, a homer, and walk. For the month of June, Tejada is hitting .360/.411/.475 (22 for 61, 2 2b, 3b, HR, 7 RBI, 5/5 BB/K, 2/2 SBs). Ezequiel Carrera was on base twice, with a single and homer, so the top of the lineup did it's job. Lucas Duda, out of the 3 hole, broke out of a month long slump with 2 hits and a walk. The three of them combined to score all 5 Met runs. Victor Mendez and recently promoted catcher Jordan Abruzzo had the other 2 RBI.

All this was in back of Michael Antonini, who earned his first high A win with 6.2 terrific innings, allowing just 4 hits and a run, while striking out 6.

Ezequiel Carrera (cf) 2 for 6, run, HR, RBI, 2 Ks, .259, SB (15)
Ruben Tejada (ss) 4 for 5, 3 runs, HR, RBI, BB, .246, SB (3)
Lucas Duda (1b) 2 for 5, run, BB, 2 Ks, .275
Victor Mendez (rf) 1 for 4, RBI, BB, K, .444
Josh Thole (c) 1 for 4, BB, .266
Jordan Abruzzo (dh) 1 for 5, RBI
DJ Wabick (lf) 2 for 5, 2b, .281
Shawn Bowman (3b) 1 for 5, 2 Ks, .400
Matt Smith (2b) 0 for 3, 2 BBs, .211
Michael Antonini 6.2 IP, 4 H, ER, 6 Ks, HR, 2.13 era, W (1-0)
Emary Frederick 1.1 IP, 2 H, K, 3.71 era
German Marte IP, H, ER, K, HR, 1.80 era

Savannah 5, Rome 4

Savannah held a 2-1 lead into the bottom of the 8th, on the strength of another outstanding Maikel Cleto outing (7 ip, 4 h, er, 4 bb, 5 k), but Nick Abel, aided and abetted by a Greg Veloz error (his 13th), blew the save in the 8th. Steven Chenry worked 2 innings, giving up a run in the bottom of the 10th, but the Gnats held on for a 5-4 win.

The first 7 hitters had at least one hit, but the bottom 2 (Bradley Hubbert and Jacob Elgsti (.239)) went a combined 0 for 8, Hubbert struck out twice in his A debut. Gnat hitters struck out 12 times in the game.

Greg Veloz (2b) 1 for 5, run, 3b, .257
Casey Craig (lf) 1 for 4, run, RBI, BB, K, .338
Jose Jimenez (1b) 1 for 4, BB, .249
Joaquin Rodriguez (3b) 2 for 4, 2 runs, BB, K, .254
Francisco Pena (c) 1 for 5, run, 2b, RBI, 3 Ks, .251
Richard Pena (rf) 1 for 4, RBI, BB, 2 Ks, .246
Carlos Guzman (cf) 2 for 5, 2b, RBI, 3 Ks, .244
Maikel Cleto 7 IP, 4 H, ER, 4 BBs, 5 Ks, 3.39 era
Nick Abel IP, 3 H, 2 R, 0.00 era, BS )1(
Steven Cheney 2 IP, 3 H, ER, K, 2.87 era )W, 1-0(

Brooklyn 2, Staten Island 7

The game was on SNY, and David was at the game today, so he should have a good writeup later on either tonight, or early tomorrow (for MetsProspectHub)

Matt Bouchard (ss) 1 for 4, 2b, RBI, .222
Kirk Nieuwenhuis (cf) 0 for 3, run, BB, .273
Zach Lutz (3b) 2 for 4, K, .500
Luis Alen (c) 0 for 4, .000
Nick Giarraputo (1b) 1 for 4, K, .200
Ralph Henriquez (dh) 0 for 4, 2 Ks, .000
Brandon Richey (2b) 0 for 2, run, 2 Ks, .000
Brandon Kawal (lf) 1 for 3, .333
Will Vogl (rf) 0 for 3, .250
Manuel Olivares 5 IP, 7 H, 2 R, ER, 2 BBs, 3 Ks, 1.80 era, L (0-1)
Eric Beaulac 1.2 IP, H, 4 ER, 2 BBs, K, 21.60 era
Matias Carrillo 2.1 IP, 3 H, ER, BB, 2 Ks, 3.86 era

Kingsport 0, Greeneville 8

Guillaume Leduc's season debut left alot to be desired, he got roughed up for 5 runs on 5 hits and 2 walks in just 2.1 innings. Thomas Paredes second relif outing didn't go much better then his first, he gave up a run in 0.2 innings. Phillips Orta, piggybacking on Leduc, pitched 3 effective innings, giving up just a hit, but walking 4 while K'ing 5. Stephen Puhl and Jason LaVaorgna finished off the disasterous game.

The Mets offense was held to just 7 hits, and 4 players took 0-fers. Imbawer Alvarez (0 for 5, K), Pedro Zapata (0 for 3, BB, .167), Michael Moras (0 for 4), and Doug McNulty (0 for 3). Dan Stegall had the only multi hit game.

Daniel Stegall (lf) 3 for 4, 2b, BB, .583
Wilmer Flores (ss) 1 for 5, K, .467
Richard Lucas (3b) 1 for 2, 2 BBs, .167
Dock Doyle (c) 1 for 4, K
Justin Garber (rf) 1 for 3, BB
Guillaume Leduc 2.1 IP, 5 H, 5 ER, 2 BBs, 19.29 era, L (0-1)
Thomas Paredes 0.2 IP, 3 H, ER, 16.20 era
Phillips Orta 3 IP, H, 4 BBs, 5 Ks, 0.00 era
Stephen Puhl IP, 2 H, 2 R, ER, BB, 2 Ks, 4.50 era
Jason LaVaorgna 2 IP, BB, 3 Ks, 0.00 era