Rainy Lara’s weaknesses: 7th inning, Ryan Schimpf
Rainy Lara’s previous outing at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium consisted of 7 scoreless innings with just 3 strikeouts. Despite the results, Lara was clearly gassed by the 7th inning and got lucky on a couple of fly balls to center. This time around, the strikeouts were up but so was Lara’s 7th inning luck. Ryan Schimpf had accounted for all of New Hampshire’s offense with a pair of solo home runs before Lara went an inning too far and nearly threw away a 4-run lead. John Church did his best to limit the damage and Cody Satterwhite pitched a perfect 9th to close out a narrow 6-5 victory.
They’ll let anyone to second base around here…
Rainy Lara kept things quick and clean for the first three innings, giving up only two hits while striking out three over that span. The Mets struck first in the top of the third with three runs on hits from Travis Taijeron, Wilfredo Tovar, Brian Burgamy, and Kevin Plawecki plus a Matt Clark HBP. Clark was in serious pain after being hit but stayed in the game to run the bases. Cory Vaughn took his place as DH the next time through the batting order.
Lara got three more strikeouts in the 4th, but only after giving up a solo home run to Ryan Schimpf. Schimpf hit a second solo home run in the 6th, but that was the extent of New Hampshire’s scoring over the first six innings.
The Mets added a run of their own in the top of the 6th on a Travis Taijeron double that missed being a home run by mere inches. It was still enough to score Jayce Boyd, who walked earlier in the inning.
Darrell Ceciliani scores from first on a pair of throwing errors
The 7th inning got started with a Darrell Ceciliani single that apparently bugged New Hampshire pitcher John Anderson. Repeated pickoff attempts have a way of going bad, though Rainy Lara got away with a whole bunch at once earlier in the game. For Anderson, three was his limit. Ceciliani made it to third base when the pickoff went awry and then scored when the throw to third had the same result. I guess that’s one way to get rid of a runner…
In a surprising twist, Cory Vaughn, batting well under .200 this season, hit a double with two outs. Kevin Plawecki, batting well over .300 this season, then doubled Vaughn home on what appeared to be a routine fly ball. That would do it for the Mets’ offense, but when’s the last time they blew a 4-run lead? Oh, right, last night…
It’s never a good sign when runners are rolling around the bases…
Three hits and one out later, Lara was pulled from the game with the lead cut to 6-3. John Church would go on to allow both inherited runners to score, but neither team managed anything other than a strikeout or groundout over the rest of the game.
Cody Satterwhite strikes out Jon Berti to end the game
Final Score: Bingamton 6, New Hampshire 5
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