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Berry blasts Jacksonville to seventh-straight win

Jumbo Shrimp plate four runs in the top of the ninth
Jacob Berry blasts a three-run homer in the top of the ninth inning giving Jacksonville a 6-4 win over the Syracuse Mets Tuesday night. (Kaley Mantz/ Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp)
June 17, 2025

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Jacob Berry’s three-run home run in the ninth inning powered the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp to a 6-4 win over the Syracuse Mets for their seventh-straight win, Tuesday night at NBT Bank Stadium. Trailing 4-2 in the ninth, Jacksonville (44-26) plated four unanswered runs down to their final

SYRACUSE, N.Y.Jacob Berry’s three-run home run in the ninth inning powered the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp to a 6-4 win over the Syracuse Mets for their seventh-straight win, Tuesday night at NBT Bank Stadium.

Trailing 4-2 in the ninth, Jacksonville (44-26) plated four unanswered runs down to their final two outs. With one out, Andrew Pintar doubled and scored on a base hit from Victor Mesa Jr., cutting the deficit to one. In the ensuing at-bat, Albert Almorasingled and Berry (5) clobbered a three-run shot off Syracuse (29-41) reliever Chris Devenski (L, 0-2).

The Jumbo Shrimp opened the scoring in the top of the first. With one out, Jakob Marsee (5) crushed a solo home run, putting Jacksonville ahead 1-0.

The Mets evened the game in the bottom of the first. Travis Jankowski singled and stole second. Drew Gilbert evened the game with a base hit in the ensuing at-bat.

After six scoreless five scoreless frames, Syracuse took the lead in the bottom of the seventh. Joey Meneses reached on an error and Hayden Senger pushed him to second with a sac bunt. A single coupled with a fielder’s choice scored Meneses from third putting Syracuse ahead 2-1. Yonny Hernandez followed with an RBI triple pushing the Mets’ lead to two.

Jacksonville cut the deficit to one in the top of the eighth. With one out, Marsee (6) walloped his second home run of the game shrinking Syracuse’s lead to 3-2.

The Mets’ final tally came in the bottom of the eighth. With two outs, David Villar doubled and scored on a double from Meneses, increasing Syracuse’s lead to 4-2.

Jacksonville and Syracuse continue their series with Wednesday’s 6:35 p.m. contest. RHP Connor Gillispie (3-0, 4.85 ERA) gets the ball for the Jumbo Shrimp and the Mets will counter with RHP Brandon Sproat (3-5, 5.31 ERA) Coverage begins at 6:20 p.m. on ESPN 690 and espn690.com.

ABOUT THE JUMBO SHRIMP: The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp are the Triple-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins and compete in the International League. The team calls VyStar Ballpark home for baseball but also a wide variety of additional community focused events with a goal of providing Affordable, Family, FUN to Northeast Florida. Winners of many marketing and sales awards and recognition since the team was rebranded prior to the 2017 season, the Jumbo Shrimp continually lead the state of Florida in attendance across all minor league professional sports organizations.