The Result
Mets - 3 runs to 2

The Curve - Year-to-Date
26 won and 16 lost

Brett's Position and the Batting Order
Playing - Leftfield
Batting - #3

At the end of the Game
0 hit from 4 at-bats - 1 x run scored, 2 x strike outs

Brett's at-bats
First at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Bases empty - two down
Called strike
Ball - low
Ball - "and Mike Pelfrey is consistantly throwing at 94mph"
Ball - outside
Foul ball - "Roneberg has a good cut at a 95mph fast ball and fouls it back to the screen"
"And that pitch is popped up to third base and it should end the innings ...... but he has flat out dropped it!!! - and Roneberg is at first base on the error"
Safe at first base on dropped fly ball by the Mets third-baseman - E5
Advanced to third base on a hit
Scored on another hit
Second at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Runner at third base - two down
Foul ball - down the leftfield line
Foul ball
"And Roneberg takes a called third strike to end the innings"
Strike out
Third at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Bases empty - one down
Ball - low and inside
"There's a ground ball to the shortstop who gathers it up and makes the throw to first base for the out"
Ground out - 6 to 3
Fourth at-bat
Lefthanded pitcher
Runners at first and third base - two down - and the game was tied at two in the top of the seventh and final scheduled innings!!!
Swing and a miss - "and the pitcher has been staying away"
Ball - outside
Foul ball
Foul ball
"Brett checks his swing on that pitch and they ask whether he went ...... and the call is "yes"!!! ...... and Roneberg is punched out to end the innings with the go-ahead run just ninety feet away ...... and he is not happy!!! ...... he is really upset and is arguing with the umpire!!! ...... and the Curve Manager Tim Leiper is also out of the dugout to argue the case for his player"
Strike out

Heard during the game

Email from Brett

Refer to Game #043 on Sunday 21st May 2007

Game Reports

Eight days after being swept by the Curve in a doubleheader at Blair County Ballpark, the Binghamton Mets returned the favor Saturday night, taking both ends of a make-shift doubleheader at NYSEG Stadium in Binghamton, NY

The Mets took the completion of Friday's suspended game, 4-3, and followed with an eighth-inning, walk-off 3-2 victory in Saturday's regularly scheduled contest

Altoona held two-run leads in both games, but Binghamton rallied in both to win back-to-back games for the first time in nearly two weeks

The Curve (26-16) saw their 10-game winning streak against the B-Mets come to an end as they have now dropped five of the last six games away from home

Despite being swept in both games Saturday, Altoona maintains its 2-1/2 game lead over Akron in the E.L. South standings

In the early contest, Binghamton outfielder Jorge Padilla knocked in three of his club's four runs, including the eventual game-winner in the bottom of the seventh inning, to lead the Mets to a 4-3 win

Curve starter Landon Jacobsen (5-4) re-started the suspended game and worked 5-1/3 strong innings, but surrendered three runs, including the go-ahead tally in the seventh, to suffer his fourth loss in five starts

Altoona managed just three hits in the game, with two coming off the bat of catcher David Parrish

In the nightcap, which was scheduled for seven innings, Jay Caliguri's bases loaded single in the bottom of the eighth knocked in Wilson Batista with the game-winning run as Binghamton clinched a 3-2 win

Altoona jumped on Mets' top pitching prospect Mike Pelfrey for a pair of first-inning runs, knocking the right-hander out of the game after just 2/3 innings of work
After a dropped pop-up by third baseman Caliguri kept the inning alive, Ray Sadler delivered an RBI single and Brandon Chaves drew a bases loaded walk to give Altoona an early 2-0 lead

Curve starter Jonathan Albaladejo, who was making his first start of the season, tossed three scoreless innings before turning the game over to reliever Chris Hernandez in the fourth

Hernandez, who entered with a 1.66 ERA over his first 13 outings, allowed single runs to the Mets in the fourth and fifth frames to knot the score at 2-2 and the send the game to extra frames

Shane Youman (0-2) did not retire any of the four batters he faced in the bottom of the eighth and was saddled with his second loss of the week
The left-hander also took the loss as a starter in last Tuesday's loss to Reading

Curve outfielder Vic Buttler, the reigning Eastern League Player of the Week, continued his hot hitting by recording hits in each game to extend his hitting streak to 11 games
The 25-year old recorded his league-leading eighth triple of the season in the third inning of the first game

Javier Guzman, who also entered the day with a nine-game hitting streak, failed to hit safely in the opener, but collected two hits in the nightcap

The Curve will look to avoid a three-game sweep as they send right-hander Matt Peterson (3-2, 4.06) to the mound against Mets' righty Chuck Smith (0-0, 0.00)
Peterson pitched for the B-Mets during the 2003 and 2004 seasons before being traded to the Pirates in the July 2004 Kris Benson deal
Game time is set for 1.30pm

The Altoona Curve blew leads in both games and dropped an Eastern League doubleheader to the Binghamton Mets on Saturday

Jay Caligiuri’s bases-loaded single scored Wilson Batista with no outs in the bottom of the eighth inning to give the B-Mets a 3-2 win over the Curve in the second game

Ray Sadler’s RBI single and a bases loaded walk to Brandon Chaves gave Altoona a 2-0 first-inning lead, but the B-Mets tied the count with runs in the fourth and fifth innings off of Chris Hernandez, the second of four Curve pitchers

Binghamton scored the winning run off of Shane Youman
Batista singled to open the eighth and, when Altoona shortstop Javier Guzman made a throwing error on Jorge Padilla’s ground ball, the B-Mets had runners at second and third
After Michel Abreu received an intentional pass to load the bases, Caligiuri followed with his game-winning single

With Padilla driving in three runs, the B-Mets won the opener 4-3 in the completion of Friday night’s suspended game that was halted by heavy rains in the bottom of the second inning

Curve took a 3-1 lead in the third on a sacrifice fly by Guzman and triple by Vic Buttler
It was Buttler’s minor league-leading eighth triple

However, Padilla rapped a two-out single to tie the game at 3-3 in the fifth, then singled in the game-winner with two outs in the seventh

Orlando Romand, who pitched three hitless innings, was the winning pitcher

Landon Jacobsen (5-4) was the loser

The series winds up today with a 1.30pm start

Jay Caligiuri drove in two runs, including a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the eighth, giving the Binghamton Mets a 3-2, extra-inning win over the Altoona Curve at NYSEG Stadium Saturday

Earlier in the evening, Binghamton and Altoona completed a suspended game, with the B-Mets winning 4-3

After Friday’s series opener was suspended due to rain in the bottom of the second with Binghamton leading 1-0 on Michel Abreu’s first-inning RBI single, Altoona jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the third once the game resumed on Javier Guzman’s sacrifice fly and Vic Buttler’s RBI triple
Buttler came around to score on an error

The B-Mets (19-23) rallied to tie the score in the fifth
After Tim McNab and Bobby Malek reached on a fielder’s choice and single, respectively, and both advanced into scoring position on a Landon Jacobsen wild pitch, Jorge Padilla drove them in with a single to left

Binghamton got to Jacobsen (5-4) again in the seventh when Bobby Malek walked, moved to second on a groundout and came home with the go-ahead run on Padilla’s base hit to left-center

Orlando Roman (2-1) tossed three scoreless innings of relief for the win

In the regularly scheduled game, Altoona (26-16) got to B-Mets starter Mike Pelfrey for a pair in the first
Once Brett Roneberg reached when his two-out pop-up was dropped by Caligiuri for an error, Simon Pond and Ray Sadler singled, with Sadler driving in Roneberg
Pelfrey then walked two straight, including Brandon Chaves with the bases loaded, forcing in a run for a 2-0 Altoona lead

The B-Mets rallied to tie on Caligiuri’s RBI single that scored Padillia in the fourth and Malek’s sacrifice fly that brought home Jonathan Slack in the fifth

The contest was scheduled for seven innings, but wasn’t decided until the bottom of the eighth
Wilson Batista opened the frame with a single before Jorge Padilla reached on a two-base error, moving Batista to third
After reliever Shane Youman (0-2) intentionally walked Michel Abreu to load the bases, Caligiuri lined a single to right, scoring Batista with the winning run

Ivan Maldonado (2-1) pitched a scoreless eighth for the win

Sunday, the B-Mets wrap up their three-game series v Altoona
Chuck Smith (0-0, 0.00) starts for Binghamton against Altoona’s Matt Peterson (3-2, 4.06)
Game time is 1.30pm from NYSEG Stadium with the Horizons Federal Credit Union Pre-Game Show kicking off the broadcast at 1.15pm on Newsradio 1290 WNBF

The Binghamton Mets broke out of their offensive funk with a pair of one-run victories Saturday night

The B-Mets, who had lost seven of their last eight games, rallied to defeat the Altoona Curve, 3-2, in eight innings in the second of two games at NYSEG Stadium

That followed the B-Mets' 4-3 victory in the completion of Friday's suspended game

Jay Caligiuri drove in the game-winning run for the B-Mets (18-23) in the second game - which was scheduled to go seven innings - with a bases-loaded single that scored Wilson Batista

"We came home, and we wanted to turn the page" Caligiuri said
"We just wanted to focus on the game and do all the right things"

The B-Mets overcame Mike Pelfrey's shortest start of his brief professional career thanks to some key late-game hits
That's something that the B-Mets have lacked this season, particularly of late
They entered the game batting a collective .229 this season, and four of their last seven losses have been by one run

But Saturday night, the B-Mets got the hits when they needed them

Batista led off the eighth inning with a single, and Jorge Padilla reached on a throwing error by shortstop Javier Guzman
After an intentional walk to Michel Abreu loaded the bases with nobody out, Caligiuri lined a Shane Youman (0-2) pitch to right field, easily scoring Batista

"That was nice to see tonight" B-Mets manager Juan Samuel said
"We've been struggling to score some runs, but guys seemed to bear down tonight
They focused better, the concentrated better, and they were able to work the count and get some big hits"

The late rally saved Pelfrey, the Mets' top pick in the 2005 draft who struggled on Saturday
He pitched just two-thirds of an inning, allowing three walks, two hits and two runs - both of which were unearned following a Caligiuri error
Samuel took Pelfrey out of the game after the right-hander had thrown 39 pitches

"The last couple starts, it seems like my control has eluded me, and that's always been one of my strengths" Pelfrey said
"I need to find it"

In the first game, Bobby Malek and Padilla sparked the B-Mets
Malek was moved up to hit leadoff a week ago
The change was made in part to spark the offense, and in part to give 20-year old prospect Carlos Gomez a chance to develop
Malek scored three runs in the first game on Saturday
Malek, who scored the team's first run on Friday before the game was suspended in the second inning, hit a one-out single in the fifth inning and, along with pitcher Tim McNab, tied the game at 3-3 on a Padilla RBI single
In the seventh inning, Malek drew a one-out walk and scored on another Padilla single

Three B-Mets pitchers combined to throw a three-hitter
McNab, who replaced Friday's starter Bryan Edwards, allowed three hits and three runs over four innings
Orlando Roman tossed three hitless innings

Around the Horn
Anderson Garcia, who began the season in Binghamton, was called up to New York from Triple-A Norfolk on Saturday
He took the place of Jose Lima, who was designated for assignment
Matt Peterson, today's scheduled starter for the Curve, pitched for the B-Mets in 2003 and 2004
He was traded to Pittsburgh in 2004 as part of the Kris Benson trade
Chuck Smith, who was recently sent to the B-Mets from Norfolk, will pick up a spot start today's game
William Collazo is scheduled to start on Monday