B-METS LOSE FINAL GAME 10-8

Evans Secures Batting Title in 10-8, 13 Inning Loss

BINGHAMTON, NY- The Binghamton Mets scored twice in the bottom of the ninth to force extra innings but a two-run home run in the 13^th inning from Christin Stewart gave the Erie SeaWolves a 10-8 win, Monday afternoon at NYSEG Stadium. Phillip Evans went 4-for-6 and secured the Eastern League batting title.
Trailing 8-6 in the bottom of the ninth, Stefan Sabol smacked a leadoff single. Evans then singled Sabol to second before a Champ Stuart sacrifice bunt moved the runners to second and third. Amed Rosario followed with a two-run single, tying the game at eight to force extra innings.
With two outs in the 11^th, Evans chopped a ground ball up the middle that squeaked into center for a base hit. It made him 4-for-6 and vaulted his batting average to .33518, .00012 ahead of Portland’s Aneury Tavarez for the league lead.
The SeaWolves dealt the decisive blow in the 13^th. Dominic Ficociello doubled and Christin Stewart cranked a two-run homer to right, vaulting Erie to a 10-8 lead.  
Erie did the bulk of its damage in the second inning. Mickey Jannis hit Corey Jones with a pitch then walked Mike Gerber. Ficociello bounced a grounder up the middle that Jannis fielded and threw home but Jones slid in safely. Stewart later blasted a double, scoring Gerber and Ficociello. Harold Castro smacked an RBI single and Anthony Gose capped the inning with a two-run single, giving the SeaWolves a 6-0 lead.
Binghamton got one back in the bottom of the second as L.J. Mazzilli drove a one-out triple to right-center. Raywilly Gomez later scored him with a single to put the B-Mets on the board.
In the third, Evans cranked a leadoff double to the wall in left. He later scored on a Matt Oberste sacrifice fly, making the score, 6-2.
Erie struck again in the fourth. Gustavo Nunez doubled and Gose singled him in, extended the Erie lead to 7-2.
The B-Mets cut into the deficit in the fifth when Champ Stuart singled and took second on a throwing error. Amed Rosario followed with a single that scored Stuart to make it 7-3.
Binghamton got back to work in the seventh as Gomez led off with a double and Stefan Sabol followed with a double to the wall in left-center, scoring Gomez. With runners at first and third, Stuart bounced into a double play that scored Sabol but effectively killed the rally. After seven, the B-Mets trailed, 7-5.
They would continue the comeback in the eighth. Oberste led off with a walk and scored on a Maikis De La Cruz groundout that made it 7-6.
A Gose home run in the ninth extended the Erie lead to 8-6.
Evans was 4-for-6 with a double and three runs scored, his second four-hit game of the season. Rosario went 3-for-6 with three RBI and Sabol was 2-for-5 with a double, an RBI and two runs scored.
Binghamton finished its season at 63-77 and missed the postseason for the first time since 2012.
POSTGAME NOTES: Phillip Evans finished the year batting .335, 83 points higher than his previous career-high of .252 set in 2012 with Brooklyn (SS-A)…Logan Taylor worked 4 1/3 innings out of the bullpen, the longest outing of the season by a B-Met reliever…Evans’ four-hit game was his second of the season and the 13^th of the year by a B-Met
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