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Mets come back from down 6, clip Tortugas in 10

Error scores winning run for St. Lucie
August 5, 2022

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (August 5, 2022) – The St. Lucie Mets recorded their biggest comeback win of the season, rallying from a 6-0 deficit to defeat the Daytona Tortugas 8-7 in 10 innings on Friday at Clover Park. With two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning the

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (August 5, 2022) – The St. Lucie Mets recorded their biggest comeback win of the season, rallying from a 6-0 deficit to defeat the Daytona Tortugas 8-7 in 10 innings on Friday at Clover Park.

With two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning the Mets had Raul Beracierta on third base and Omar De Los Santos on first base. As De Los Santos stole second base, catcher Wilfred Astudillo faked a throw to second, then tried to surprise Raul Beracierta by throwing back to third base. However, Astudillo’s throw was wild down the left field line and Beracierta trotted home to score the winning run on the error.

Mets reliever Trey McLoughlin pitched a scoreless eighth, ninth and 10th to get the win. The Tortugas advanced their free runner Wendell Marrero from second base to third base with no outs in the top of the 10th but McLoughlin got a foul pop out, ground out and strikeout to keep Marrero from scoring.

Beracierta crushed a game-tying two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning to make it 7-7. It was his 10th home run of the season.

Daytona scored four runs in the first inning off new Mets pitcher Jordan Geber, who was signed from the MLB Draft League.

The Tortugas scored two more runs in the third inning on a Michel Triana homer and Braylin Minier RBI double to go up 6-0.

William Lugo got the Mets on the board in the third inning with a two-run homer, his 10th of the season.

Ashton Creal knocked his second home run of the game in the fourth inning against Miguel Alfonseca to put the Tortugas up 7-2.

The Mets chipped away over the next couple innings, scoring runs on a Fernando Villalobos RBI single and a Jack-Thomas Wold run-scoring ground out.

Trailing 7-4 entering the eighth, the Mets plated three runs on a RBI ground out and Berarcierta’s two-run shot. Beracierta went 3 for 5.

De Los Santos was 2 for 3 with three walks and three stolen bases. Carlos Dominguez collected his third two-hit game of the month.

The Mets (58-41, 18-16) and Tortugas (39-58, 10-22) meet again at Clover Park on Saturday at 6:10 p.m. It’s a Summer Santa Celebration promotion at the ballpark. The Mets will were special Santa jerseys and fans who bring a toy donation for the WPSL Christmas Kids get a free ticket. There will also be postgame fireworks.