The St. Lucie Mets swept a doubleheader against the Lakeland Flying Tigers on Monday at Tradition Field, winning game 1 3-2 and cruising to a 6-1 victory in game 2.
With the doubleheader sweep, the Mets took three of four games from the Flying Tigers and won their third straight game after losing four in row.
In game 1, Rafael Montero dominated in what essentially was a rehab start. The right hander, who started four games for the New York Mets this season and has spent the majority of the season in Triple-A Las Vegas, shut out the Flying Tigers over four innings. He allowed two singles, one walk and struck out four. He threw 64 pitches and 40 for strikes. Montero is making his way back from a left oblique strain.
Maikis De La Cruz gave the Mets a 1-0 lead in the second on an RBI sac fly that plated Aderlin Rodriguez.
Phillip Evans put the Mets up 2-0 with a solo homer off of Yorfrank Lopez in the fourth. It was the second straight game with a home run for Evans, who now has four on the season.
The Flying Tigers cut the Mets lead to 2-1 in the sixth when Andy Dirks scored from third on a passed by by Cam Maron. However, Maron doubled to lead off the Mets half of the sixth and scored on Rodriguez’s single.
Austin Green blasted a solo home run - his third in three games - off of Paul Sewald in the seventh to make it 3-2. Sewald settled down to strike out James Robbins and Jared Reaves. Lance Durham grounded out to end the ball game.
Jake Kuebler gave up one run in 1 2/3 innings and earned the win. Sewald picked up his sixth save.
Lopez went the distance in the loss for Lakeland.
In game 2, De La Cruz gave the Mets an early 2-0 lead in the second with a two-run single off of Logan Ehlers.
Flying Tigers reliever Tyler Clark came unglued in the fourth. He walked three batters, threw a wild pitch that allowed Gavin Cecchini to score and surrendered a two-run single to Evans that made it 5-0 Mets.
L.J. Mazzilli drove in Gilbert Gomez one batter later to put the Mets up 6-0.
That was plenty of offense for Domingo Tapia. The Mets starter pitched 5 1/3 innings of scoreless baseball. He scattered five hits and struck out seven while walking just two.
Robert Coles took over for Tapia with one out and runners on second and third in the sixth. He induced a pop out and fly out to keep the game scoreless.
The Flying Tigers scored one unearned run in the seventh on Jeff McVaney’s infield single. - team press release
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Wonder if Tapia was inspired by the presence of game 1 starter Rafael Montero. Domingo threw a great game.
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