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Syracuse, NY – The Syracuse Mets capped off the 2023 season in unfortunate fashion, dropping their last game of the year to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, 7-3, on Sunday afternoon at NBT Bank Stadium. Despite the loss, the Mets split the final six-game series of the season.
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (73-75, 39-35) got on the board first via a familiar face. With two outs and nobody on base in the top of the first, Andrés Chaparro slugged his 25th and final home run of the 2023 season to jolt the RailRiders out to a 1-0 lead. Six of those homers for Chaparro came against the Mets.
The RailRiders tacked on another two-out run in the top of the second inning to make it 2-0. Aaron Palensky walked with one out, moved up to second on a wild pitch, stole second with two outs, and scored on an RBI single from Nelson Medina for a 2-0 lead. Medina, who was called up from Single-A Tampa last week, finished the season in Triple-A strong, going 7-for-26 this week with two multi-hit games.
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre put the game out of reach with four runs in the top of the fifth, all of which once again came with two outs. After the first two batters went down in order, things went downhill quickly for the Mets. Jamie Westbrook kept the inning alive with a single, Carlos Narvaez was hit by a pitch, Chaparro walked, and then Jake Lamb was hit by a pitch to plate one run. The very next batter, Jesús Bastidas, was also hit by a pitch that scored another run and made it 4-0. Then, Aaron Palensky slashed a single into center field to score another pair of runs, make it a 6-0, and make the comeback road that much longer for the Mets. The RailRiders sent nine men to the plate in the fateful, four-run fifth inning.
From there, it was the Clayton Beeter show on the mound for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. The starter for the RailRiders completely kept Syracuse (61-85, 28-44) off balance all afternoon long, tossing five scoreless innings with just one hit allowed, four walks, and seven…
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