The Result
Mets - 8 to 1

Sea Dogs - Year-to-Date
23 wins - 28 losses

Brett's Position and the Batting Order
Playing rightfield
Batting #3

(played seven innings of this game)

At the end of the Game
0 hit from 2 at-bats - 1 x walk, 1 x strike out

Brett's at-bats
First at-bat
Lefthanded pitcher
Runner at first base - one down
Ball - breaking ball - in the dirt
Ball - curve ball - high
Ball - low and away
Ball - low and away again
Walk
Went to second base on a hit
Left stranded at the end of the innings
Second at-bat
Lefthanded pitcher
Bases empty - two down
Ball - low
"A soft ground ball to the Mets second-baseman and Roneberg was thrown out before he was two-thirds of the way down the line"
Out 4-to-3
Third at-bat
Lefthanded pitcher
Runner at first base - none down
Called strike - "and it looked like Roneberg checked his swing but the umpire rang-him-up without an appeal to the third base umpire and now Brett is having a 'very animated discussion' with the umpire and it looks like Ron Johnson is joining in from the third base coaching box"
Swing&miss - at a pitch in the dirt
Swing&miss - curve ball
Strike out
Fourth at-bat
Substituted

Heard during the game
(1) When Brett came in for his first at-bat, the commentator said "Brett is in the "Eastern League Top 10" in a few batting categories including home runs and runs-driven-in"

Email from Brett
N/A

Game Reports
SEA DOGS WIN STREAK ENDS IN BINGHAMTON
Mets Win 18th in Last 22 Games, 8-1 Over Sea Dogs

Neal Musser tossed seven innings of one-run, five hit ball with six strikeouts as the Binghamton Mets ended Portland's four-game winning streak with an 8-1 win over the Sea Dogs on Monday night.

Josh Stevens (2-3) allowed a season-high 11 hits and eight runs in six innings.
The right-hander's ERA has risen two runs in his last two starts against the B-Mets after giving up 13 runs in 12.2 innings.

David Wright was 3-for-4 with two RBI, two stolen bases and a run scored.

Prentice Redman added two doubles, an RBI and two runs scored, giving him 10 extra-base hits, 13 RBI and 10 runs scored against the Sea Dogs this season.

David Bacani added two doubles, a single and two RBI.

Sean McGowan homered in the fourth inning for Portland's only run.

After failing to score on a bases loaded chance in the first frame, the Sea Dogs managed only two runners past first base the rest of the game.

Mets take another bite out of Dogs

At the sizable risk of rushing to judgment after nine games of a 20-game season series, it appears the Binghamton Mets have mastered defeating the Portland Sea Dogs.

Were it not for the division-leading Mets, the Sea Dogs would be basking in the radiance of a 13-game winning streak.
But a three-game sweep at the hands of the Mets last week at Hadlock Field was sandwiched between five straight wins over New Britain and Harrisburg and last weekend's four-game sweep in New Hampshire.

Now comes the 8-1 thumping the Mets laid on the Sea Dogs Tuesday night before 2,143 at NYSEG Stadium.

"It's one of those things," Mets Manager Ken Oberkfell said.
"The key is we jumped on them early.
Sometimes when you beat a team consistently and you get momentum, they say, 'Here it goes again.' "
"Right now, we've got their number. Who knows about tomorrow?"

The Mets, after completing their best month since August 2000, have won six of their last seven and 18 of 21.

They jumped all over Sea Dogs starter Josh Stevens, who pitched a 1-2-3 first inning before getting rocked for eight runs on 11 hits in the next six innings.

Mets starter Neal Musser, meanwhile, escaped a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the first inning and settled down to allow just a home run by Sean McGowan to open the fourth.
Musser, who got 13 groundouts in seven innings, got his team-leading fifth victory and his second in seven nights against the Sea Dogs.

Red-hot utilityman David Bacani gave the Mets a lead with a two-out double down the left-field line in the second inning.
Bacani, playing because second baseman Chase Lambin was getting a rest, has 14 hits in his last 23 at-bats and 11 RBI in his last eight games.

Stevens issued a two-out walk to Angel Pagan in the third inning, and David Wright drove him home for a 3-0 lead.

McGowan got the Sea Dogs within two runs by crushing a belt-high, first-pitch fastball to left field.
It was the first home run in 129 at-bats this season for McGowan, a 6-foot-6, 240-pound first baseman.

Another two-out rally in the fourth yielded two runs on RBI singles by Dave Detienne and Wayne Lydon, and the Mets picked up two more in the fifth on a run-scoring double by Prentice Redman and a sacrifice fly by Ron Acuna.

The Mets closed the scoring - and drove Stevens from the game - in the seventh.
Pagan drilled a leadoff triple to left-center, and Wright followed with a single through the middle before Eric Glaser came on to retire the next three batters.

NOTES
Right-handed pitcher Ryan Larson was promoted from Class A Sarasota, and lefty reliever Charlie Young went on the disabled list with a strained left quadriceps.
Larson, who threw 1-2/3 scoreless innings for the Sea Dogs earlier this season, was 2-0 with a 1.77 ERA in 11 appearances for Sarasota.
Second baseman Jesus Medrano made his first start since coming off the disabled list Monday. Medrano was sidelined by a bruised left shoulder.
Right-hander Jerome Gamble and third baseman John Hattig have been nominated for Eastern League Player of the Month for May.
Gamble was 4-1 with a 2.79 ERA, and Hattig batted .343 with eight home runs and 17 RBI.

Mets Take Series Opener with Portland 8-1

David Bacani and David Wright each had three hits and two runs batted in, powering Neal Musser to his team-leading fifth win as the Mets defeated visiting Portland 8-1 at NYSEG Stadium Tuesday night.

Musser (5-1) won his fourth consecutive decision.
He gave up a homer to Sean McGowan on the first pitch of the fouth inning, but no more runs in seven frames.
He matched his season-high with six strikeouts and served up 12 ground ball outs.

Bacani doubled in two runs, giving the Mets a 2-0 lead in the second inning.
He then doubled and scored on Dave Detienne's single off McGowan's glove at first base in the fourth inning as the Mets built a 5-1 lead.

Prentice Redman, who doubled twice, scored Wright after his leadoff single in the fifth inning.

In the seventh, Wright singled home Angel Pagan, who had led off the inning with a triple.

Blake McGinley and Jeremy Hill each worked a scoreless inning for the Mets.

The Mets (33-18) have won five of their past six games and 18 of their past 22.
They lead the Eastern League's Northern Division by 5-1/2 games.

Wednesday night at 7:00, the Mets send Jason Scobie (2-1, 3.02) to the mound against Portland knuckleballer Charlie Zink (1-5, 4.80).

Eastern League Game Summary - Portland at Binghamton

David Wright and David Bacani knocked in two runs apiece and Neal Musser threw seven strong innings to lead the Binghamton Mets past the Portland Sea Dogs, 8-1 in the Eastern League.

Binghamton has now won eight of their last ten games and lead the Northern Division by 5-1/2 games with a 33-18 record.

Portland fell to 23-28 with the loss.

Wright went 3-for-4 with a run, a stolen base, and two run scoring singles.

Bacani was 3-for-4 with two doubles and a run scored.

Prentice Redman chipped in with two runs scored, two doubles, and an RBI for the Mets.

Musser allowed one run on five hits, a walk, and struck out six to improve his record to 5-1 on the year.

Portland's Josh Stevens fell to 2-3 after getting shelled in his six innings of work.
Stevens surrendered eight runs on 11 hits, a walk and struck out three.

Sean McGowan went 2-for-4 and hit his first home run of the season for Portland.

Bacani's offense, defense lead B-Mets to victory against Sea Dogs

If David Bacani hung around Conlon Field instead of NYSEG Stadium, he might be mistaken for one of the high schoolers who've descended on the city this week for the state baseball tournament.

But there's no mistaking the impact Bacani is making for the Binghamton Mets.
Including his three hits and two RBI in Tuesday night's 8-1 thumping of the Portland Sea Dogs, Bacani, a 5-foot-7 utility infielder, is 14-for-23 with 11 RBI in his last nine games.
The Little Man doesn't play every day, but maybe he should.

"He's earned the right to play more, and he's probably going to play more," manager Ken Oberkfell said after the Mets won for the 18th time in 22 games.
"There's a good chance Bacani will play (tonight).
"The big thing is his work ethic. He comes ready to play, and when he doesn't play, he doesn't play, he doesn't pout."

Rather, Bacani keeps the Mets' chart on the opposing pitchers.
That way, when Oberkfell writes his name on the lineup card, Bacani knows what's coming.

"It keeps me in the game," Bacani said.
"I'm going to be seeing all the same pitchers down the line, so you watch how they pitch and put it in your memory bank."

In the series-opener against the Sea Dogs, he played in place of slumping second baseman Chase Lambin, who is 0-for-20 against Portland.
And in his first at-bat in the second inning, Bacani laced a two-run double down the left-field line to give the Mets a lead.
He added a two-out double off Sea Dogs starter Josh Stevens in the two-run fourth, and blooped a leadoff single to right in the eighth to hoist his average to .378.

"I can't explain it, how I'm feeling at the plate," Bacani said.
"I'm just seeing the baseball better than I ever have before.
When I'm at the plate, having that confidence, it's great."

Then, there were the plays Bacani made in the field behind starter Neal Musser, who induced 13 ground-ball outs and made just one mistake on a leadoff homer by Sean McGowan in the fourth.

Bacani went to the hole twice to rob Jeff Bailey and Mike O'Keefe in the fourth inning and rob the Sea Dogs of any hope.

"It's one of those things," Oberkfell said of the Mets' mastery of Portland.
"Right now, we've got their number, but who knows about (tonight)."