Mets clobber Tortugas 13-3

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (June 14, 2018) - The St. Lucie Mets clobbered the Daytona Tortugas 13-3 on Thursday at First Data Field in the final game before the Florida State League All Star break.
The Mets set season highs in runs (13), hits (17) and margin of victory (10). Eight of the nine starters recorded hits and all nine reached base at least once.
Wilmer Flores (back), playing in his third rehab game, went 3 for 5 with a solo home run, double and three RBI. He played the entire game at first base.
David Peterson, the top pitching prospect in the Mets organization, made his St. Lucie debut and earned the victory. He held the Tortugas to two runs on six hits over five innings. He walked three, struck out two and threw 84 pitches.
Leadoff hitter Gene Cone went 3 for 6 with three RBI. Ian Strom went 3 for 3 with three runs scored. Dash Winningham clubbed two doubles, Anthony Dimino went 2 for 5 with three runs scored. Andrés Giménez went 2 for 4 with a double and two runs.
Most of the damage was done against Daytona starter Wennington Romero. He gave up nine runs on 11 hits in three innings. He previously held the Mets to one run over eight innings in a start on May 25.
The Mets scored in six of their eight innings at the plate, including each of the first five innings. Flores got the scoring started with a two-out solo home run in the first.
Mike Paez ripped a two-run single in the fourth inning that made it 9-1.
Flores capped the scoring for the Mets when he punished a run-scoring double to the left-center gap in the seventh.
The Mets (27-36) are off Friday-Sunday. They return to the diamond on Monday when they take on the Dunedin Blue Jays in Dunedin. First pitch in the resumption of a suspended game from April 15 is 5 p.m.