Hernandez Dazzles in Mets Victory

GREENEVILLE, Tenn.- Following an hour and 25-minute delay to begin the night because of rain in the area, the Kingsport Mets took down the Greeneville Astros 6-1 in Game 4 of the series Monday night at Pioneer Park to take clinch the pivotal Appalachian League West series.
The K-Mets (23-28) won their fifth game of the season over Greeneville (27-24) Monday night and its first series of three on the year. Tuesday morning's finale will present Kingsport with an opportunity to go 6-5 over the Astros in the yearly series.
The Mets jumped out in front for the third time in this series as Juan Uriarte drove in Hansel Moreno with two gone and runners at the corners in the first inning. In the second, Hansel Moreno brought in two more runs on his third home run of the season. The drive was a two-out, two-run shot to right as the Mets jumped out in front 3-0 midway through the first two innings.
In the third inning, Kingsport plated a pair of unearned runs as Greeneville left field, Wilson Amadore, had trouble with the lights in the frame with two errors that led to the two runs. The first error allowed both Wagner Lagrange and Juan Uriarte to move in scoring position following a single while the second was a routine dropped fly ball off that bat of Dan Hoy.
The dropped ball allowed Uriarte to score from third while Grabiel Jimenez's sacrifice fly two batters later drove in the second run of the frame. Mets left the Astros 5-0 midway through inning No. 3.
Greeneville returned the favor of an unearned run being scored in the bottom of the frame as K-Mets right fielder, Wagner Lagrange, dropped a routine fly ball with a runner at third base. The runner, Gilberto Celestino, came into to score from third base as he reached first with a leadoff walk to begin the inning.
For the first time in the ballgame, Greeneville cracked the scoreboard but still trailed 5-1 after three.
The score remained the same until the eighth when Angel Manzanarez singled in Anthony Dirocie from second base with a ball hit right up the middle. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Greeneville tallied two singles, only hits two and three on the day and the first since the first inning, but could not do anything with them as the final score held true to a 6-1 Kingsport victory.  
Carlos Hernandez (3-3) picked up the win for Kingsport after completing on of his best starts of the season. The righty notched six innings of one-hit baseball allowing only one unearned run with six strikeouts. Ryan Selmer pitched two scoreless before Mac Lozer tossed a scoreless ninth to complete the five-run win for the K-Mets.
Geraldo Bojoquez (3-3) was awarded the loss after allowing five runs-three earned-off six hits during the three-inning start. Jaysen Caraballo came into and tossed five innings of scoreless relief before Juan Corniel allowed one run in the eighth.
Kingsport scored six runs off nine hits in the ballgame and were led by Uriarte's two-hit day. Moreno's homer in the second drove in two while Manzanarez, Jimenez and Uriate all collected an RBI in the win. Greeneville managed only three hits on the night-one in the first and two more in the ninth-while the tallies came from Roman Garcia, Brody Westmoreland and Reiny Beltre. The lone run of the day for the Astros to cross the plate was unearned by Celestino.
The five-game series finale is set to begin at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday morning form Pioneer Park. Coverage of the contest can be found on the Kingsport Mets Baseball Network beginning at 11:15 a.m. with Eric Cain on the Braeden's Barbeque Pregame Show.