6/5 Minor League Report! CALERO!

New Orleans 1, Oklahoma 3

No run support tonight for Ruddy Lugo, so he takes a tough luck loss, despite only allowing 2 runs on 3 hits in 7 innings. Juan Padilla continued his road back to the majors with a scoreless 8th, but the offense managed just 5 hits and a run.

Argenis Reyes (1 for 4, run, 2b, .268), Val Pascucci (2 for 4, 2b, RBI, K, .304), and Jesus Feliciano (2 for 4, 2b, K, .319) had the hits for the Zs, everyone else took an 0-fer.

Ruddy Lugo 7 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 3 BBs, 4 Ks, HR, 3.71 era, L (4-4)
Juan Padilla IP, 2 H, 13.50 era
Nate Field IP, 2 H, ER, 2 Ks, 6.75 era

Binghamton 4, Harrisburg 1

Salvador Aguilar was on top of his game today, throwing 6 innings of 2 hit shutout ball in leading the Mets to their 31st victory of the season. Eddie Kunz worked 1.1 innings to pick up his 14th save of the season.

Mike Carp, after not homering in the month of May, jacked his 7th of the season as part of a 2 run 6th. Eric Reed, Saloman Manriquez and Matt Smith (25 year old MiFer) had multi-hit games for the Mets. Jose Coronado (0 for 4, RBI, BB, K, .243), Caleb Stewart (0 for 3, BB, .256) and Ambi Concepcion (0 for 4, K, .251) took 0-fers.

Eric Reed (cf) 2 for 5, 2b, RBI, K, .273
Dan Murphy (3b) 1 for 4, BB, .324
Mike Carp (1b) 1 for 4, run, HR (7), RBI (32), K, .342
Saloman Manriquez (c) 2 for 3, 3 runs, BB, K, .245
Matt Smith (2b) 2 for 4, 2b, AA debut
Salvador Aguilar 6 IP, 2 H, 2 BBs, 5 Ks, 3.18 era, W (6-1)
Eddie Camacho 1.2 IP, 2 H, ER, BB, K, 1.98 era
Eddie Kunz 1.1 IP, BB, 3.71 era, SV (14)

St. Lucie 8, Clearwater 9

A BRUTAL loss for the Mets tonight, they'd built an 8-2 lead after 6.5 innings, only to watch Clearwater score 1 in the bottom of the 7th, 2 in the 8th, and then a backbreaking 4 in the 9th, the last one scoring on a Ruben Tejada error, his 21st of the season.

The bullpen blowup prevented Nick Carr from getting his first win of the season. Carr was decent tonight, allowing 2 hits and 2 runs in 5 innings, striking out 5 (including the side in the first). Casey Hoorelbeke allowed a run in his 2 innings, Edgar Alfonzo allowed 2 in his inning, and then Tim Stronach allowed the final 4, taking the loss.

Every regular in the lineup except Leivi Ventura (0 for 4, run, .224) had a hit, and 4 had multi hit games, including Ruben Tejada, who has had multiple hits in his last 3 games, and over his last 4 games, is 8 for 15 with 3 runs scored, 2 2b, 2 RBI.

Ezequiel Carrera (cf) 2 for 3, run, 3b, RBI, BB, .244
JR Voyles (2b) 1 for 3, run, HR, 3 RBI, BB, .227
Josh Thole (1b) 1 for 3, run, 2 BBs, .263
Lucas Duda (dh) 1 for 5, run, K, .288
Salvador Paniagua (c) 2 for 5, run, 2 2b, RBI, .244
DJ Wabick (lf) 2 for 5, run, HR, 3 RBI, .276
Ruben Tejada (ss) 2 for 5, .230
Joe Holden (rf) 1 for 5, run, K, .286
Nick Carr 5 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 2 BBs, 5 Ks, 7.19 era
Casey Hoorelbeke 2 IP, 3 H, ER, 4.32 era
Edgar Alfonzo IP, 2 H, 2 R, ER, BB, K, 4.91 era
Tim Stronach 0.2 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 3 ER, BB, HR, 5.60 era, BS (1), L (3-2)
Ryan Coultas - didn't pitch any part of any inning, allowed the groundball on which Tejada made the error.

Savannah 5, Columbus 0

Another start, another great one for Angel Calero, who lowered his ERA to 2.56 with 7 more shutout innings. Steven Cheney finished off the masterpiece with 2 perfect innings for his first save. The story was Calero, though, who only walked 1, while striking out 3, and picked up his 3rd win of the season.

The offense was led by Jacob Elgsti with 2 hits out of the 9 hole, and Matt Bouchard, 2 hits out of the leadoff spot. Jordan Abruzzo also had a multi hit game hitting cleanup, while Casey Craig (0 for 3, 2 BBs, .333), Jose Jimenez (0 for 4, K, .243), and Carlos Guzman (0 for 4, K, .200) took 0-fers.

Matt Bouchard (ss) 2 for 4, run, 3b, RBI, BB, K, .218
Richard Pena (cf) 1 for 3, run, 2 RBI, BB, K, .263
Jordan Abruzzo (dh) 2 for 4, 2b, RBI, K, .315
Francisco Pena (c) 1 for 4, run, HR (4), RBI (23), .260
Joaquin Rodriguez (3b) 1 for 4, K, .257
Jacob Elgsti (2b) 2 for 4, 2 runs, .245
Angel Calero 7 IP, 6 H, BB, 3 Ks, 2.56 era, W (3-5)
Steven Cheney 2 IP, 2 Ks, 3.38 era, SV (1)
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Oh yes, and I'd like to thank everyone who participated on the chat box today during the draft. It was a blast, and we'll do it again tomorrow starting around 11:25am.