LAS VEGAS 1, SACRAMENTO 0: Rafael Montero tossed 5 2/3 scoreless innings and combined with five relievers on a five-hit shutout. Josh Edgin and Chasen Bradford combined for a perfect ninth. Edgin is now expected to remain with Las Vegas after completing his rehab assignment. Chris Heston, who no-hit the Mets last season, limited the 51s to one run on seven hits in 6 2/3 innings in a hard-luck loss. The fifth-inning run came on Matt Reynolds' double, which plated Ty Kelly. Box
READING 5, BINGHAMTON 3: K.C. Serna spoiled Tyler Pill’s career-high 12-strikeout night with a tiebreaking two-run homer in the eighth that chased the B-Mets starter. Binghamton stranded the bases loaded in the ninth when Dominic Smith flied out. Pill (2-3) allowed five runs on 10 hits and a walk in 7 1/3 innings. His dozen strikeouts were the most by a B-Mets pitcher since Matt Bowman fanned 12 New Britain Rock Cats on May 31, 2014. Pill helped his own cause, and erased a one-run deficit, in the fifth inning. With the bases loaded, he smoked a two-run single into right-center. Ensuing batter Derrik Gibson made it 3-1 with a sacrifice fly. Pill, whose brother Brett played first base for the Giants, is a career .417 hitter (20-for-48). Binghamton’s lead did not last long. Angelo Mora smoked an RBI single in the sixth. Jared King briefly preserved the lead by gunning down Serna at the plate on the play, but Aaron Brown followed with a game-tying single. Box
ST. LUCIE 14, JUPITER 6: Eight players had multi-hit games, eight players scored a run and eight players drove in a run. Amed Rosario went 3-for-4 with a triple, three runs scored and two RBIs. Michael Katz was 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI. The Mets trailed 5-0, but pulled even with a five-run fourth that included Tomas Nido's game-tying three-run homer. Rosario gave St. Lucie a 6-5 lead an inning later by tripling home Champ Stuart. Rosario scored on a sacrifice fly. Alberto Baldonado retired the dangerous Brian Anderson with the bases loaded in the eighth to preserve a 9-6 lead. The Mets went on to score five runs in the bottom half, with Jhoan Urena contributing a leadoff homer. Wuilmer Becerra waited until the seventh inning, but extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a single. John Mora was the lone Met to go hitless, but he drove in two runs. Stuart, the leadoff hitter, was the only player not to collect a RBI, but he had two hits and scored twice. Katz, despite three hits, went RBI-less. The Mets have produced 29 runs on 34 hits in their past two games. Chris Flexen allowed five runs (four earned) in six innings and notched his second win. Box
COLUMBIA 6, GREENVILLE 4: Columbia raced to a 5-0 lead on J.C. Rodriguez's RBI single in the fourth. Dash Winningham and Milton Ramos drove in two runs apiece. Fireflies starter Chase Ingram (3-2) allowed four runs on four hits and four walks in five innings. Box
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