st1:city st="on">HYANNIS- The Mets rebounded after a rough debut Friday night against the Y-D Red Sox with a 7-5 victory against the Orleans Cardinals on Saturday night at McKeon Field. It wasn't the night that the starting pitchers had hoped for but with some solid hits and the help of some timely Cardinals miscues the Mets came out on top.
The misfortune started out early for the Orleans Cardinals. Designated hitter John Gaston singled, stole second base, then advanced to third on a Chase D'Arnaud ground out and was promptly thrown out attempting to steal home in the top half of the Cardinals 1st inning. Unable to capitalize on two first inning hits the Hyannis Mets went into the second inning in a scoreless tie.
After giving up one run off of four hits in the top half of the second inning, the Mets took advantage of four errors, turning them into three runs in the bottom half. Scott Elmendorf reached on a throwing error by short stop Mark Sobolewski. In an uncommon occurrence, Elmendorf advanced to second on what would have been a fielders choice that resulted in a fielding error. Second baseman Mark Reese attempted and failed to apply the tag to Elmendorf and then proceeded to overthrow first baseman Jose Jimenez allowing Ryan Jackson to reach first base safely. Alabama-Birmingham left fielder Phil Bell stepped up and bunted his way on loading the bases with one-out in the bottom of the second. Patrick Long reached on yet another Cardinals error scoring Elmendorf and advancing Jackson and Bell. The pride and joy of the Bradley Braves, Dan Brewer singled to right field scoring Jackson and Bell. Trying to take two bases on the Brewer single, Long was thrown out at third to end the inning.
In the top half of the 3rd the Mets had their fair share of troubles as the first two Cardinals batters reached in less than spectacular fashion. Designated Hitter John Gaston struck out swinging but reached first as a result of a wild pitch and advanced to second when Chase D'Arnaud was hit by an Austin Hudson pitch. After advancing to second and third on a wild pitch, D'Arnaud advanced to third base and Gaston scored the second run of the game for the Cardinals on a Dennis Raben sacrifice fly. Jose Jimenez singled in D'Arnaud to end the Cardinals 3rd inning.
After giving up two runs in the fourth and fifth innings, Mets starting pitcher Austin Hudson left the game in the capable hands of Garrett Sherrill and the Hyannis Mets bats. Dan Brewer started off the 5th inning rally singling to left field and then advancing to third on a Shane Peterson single to right. Sam Brown relieved starting pitcher Craig Bennigson and promptly gave second base to Peterson on a wild pitch. Kiko Vazquez scored Brewer and advanced Peterson to third on a sacrifice fly to fight field. Scott Elmendorf stepped in and drove the delivery right back at pitcher Sam Brown, whose back took the brunt of the line drive. Peterson scored on the Elmendorf single to finish the scoring in the Mets fifth inning.
After taking a base on balls, Phil Bell stole second base and scored on a Patrick Long single. Long's double produced the go-ahead and would be game winning run. To add insurance to the, already, one run lead Dan Brewer stepped in an doubled down the left field line scoring Long and the Mets final run of the game.
With the score 7-5 Garrett Sherrill took the mound in the 8th inning with his first win in the Cape Cod Baseball League in sight. Sherrill took advantage of his position and mowed down all three Cardinals batters, two of which he finished off on his own.
After Cardinals relief pitcher Ron Perry made quick work of the Mets 8th inning, Hyannis Mets manager Greg King gave the ball to Sherrill to finish the game. After giving up a hit and a walk King brought in the show stopper from North Florida, Tyler Stohr, to slam the door shut on the Cardinals 9th inning. Pinch hitting for Chase D'Arnaud, Josh Cordoso sacrificed the runners over to second and third. With one out, the Mets gave Dennis Raben first base as it was open resulting form the Cordoso sacrifice. Sthor got Nate Freiman to fly out to Shane Peterson at first base and swiftly struck out Jose Jimenez to get the save as the Hyannis Mets beat the Orleans Cardinals 7-5 at McKeon Park.
The Mets will take on the Cotuit Kettleers at 5:00 pm in Cotuit @ Lowell Park.
Brian Feltes
