Mets' Mauricio enjoys another four-hit day

It's been all or nothing this week for Ronny Mauricio. On Wednesday, all he could do was reach base.
The Mets' No. 3 prospect turned in his second four-hit performance in his last four games, going 4-for-5 with a run scored in Class A Columbia's 2-1 win over Rome at State Mutual Stadium.

Mauricio, who is hitting .346 through 12 games this season, hit the first pitch of the game for a single, singled to left in the third inning, tripled and scored on Walter Rasquin's RBI single in the fifth and added a two-out single in the ninth to cap the afternoon.
The 18-year-old had been in an 0-for-9 slide in his previous two games after going 4-for-6 with an RBI and a run scored on April 14. That first four-hit day had extended his hitting streak to eight games.
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Mauricio has the highest batting average among all ranked Mets prospects thanks to collecting at least one hit in nine of his 12 games this year. He's recorded five multi-hit efforts, with a pair of extra-base hits and four runs scored so far.
The switch-hitting infielder signed with the Mets in July 2017 out of the Dominican Republic and hit .273 with three homers and 35 RBIs in 57 games last year between Rookie-level Kingsport and the GCL Mets.
Rasquin's RBI single in the seventh put Columbia (6-7) ahead by two before Greg Cullen scored on an error in the bottom of the seventh for Rome's lone run.

Jaison Vilera (1-1), a 21-year-old right-hander out of Venezuela, struck out five and held the Braves to three hits without a walk over six innings for his first win. The 2018 New York-Penn League All-Star bounced back from a rough April 12 start in which he allowed eight runs in 3 1/3 innings at Lexington.
Jose Olague (1-2) started for Rome and was charged with a run on nine hits and a walk. The 20-year-old from Mexico struck out one while suffering his second loss in three starts.