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Allentown, PA – Tuesday’s game may have started and ended early, but the Syracuse Mets were wide awake as soon as they walked into Coca-Cola Park. The Mets scored ten runs on nine hits on their way to a wire-to-wire, 10-3 win over the Lehigh Valley IronPigs on a warm morning-turned-afternoon. The game started just past 11 in the morning and ended in the bottom of the sixth when torrential rain rolled through the area around one in the afternoon, soaking the field and making it unplayable.
Syracuse (40-55, 7-14) got the party started right away on Tuesday as it took exactly three batters to give the Mets a firm advantage. Rafael Ortega walked leading off the inning, followed by a sharp Ronny Mauricio single and a booming, three-run home run from Luke Voit that sailed well beyond the left-field fence for a 3-0 Syracuse lead. Voit now has ten homers in 31 games since joining Syracuse last month.
The fun wouldn’t stop there. The Mets hit a homer each in the second and third innings to put the game away before it felt like it even truly began. In the second, José Peraza started off the frame with a single followed by a Tomas Nido two-run dinger that made it a 5-0 game in a flash. Nido also homered in Syracuse’s last game on Sunday.
In the third, it took a two-out rally for the Mets to get back on the scoreboard. Luke Ritter sliced a single into right-center field to keep the inning alive. Then, Carlos Cortes laced a shot over the tall wall in right-center field to power Syracuse to a 7-0 advantage. Cortes has warmed up with the weather over the past few days. The former South Carolina Gamecock has gone 7-for-14 in his past four games with four walks, a double, a home run, four runs scored, and five runs driven in.
In the fifth, the first five batters reached. Voit walked, Abraham Almonte singled, Jonathan Araúz walked, Ritter singled, and Cortes walked to push the pair of runs across home plate and make it a 9-0 game.
Lehigh Valley (49-45, 13-8) did get…
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