Moosic, PA – The Syracuse Mets fell short on a frigid early April night in Northeastern Pennsylvania, dropping a Friday night game to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, 8-4. First pitch temperature was 39 degrees, dipping down near freezing by the end of the game. The five-game series is now tied at a game apiece.
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Fresh off Christian Scott’s Triple-A debut on Thursday night, another top Mets pitching prospect made his Syracuse (2-3) debut on Friday night. Dom Hamel toed the slab for the Mets, but his initial outing got off to an inauspicious beginning. Consecutive one-out walks put two runners on base, and after a strikeout put Hamel on the verge of getting out of the inning unscathed, José Rojas roughed him up. Rojas took a hanging breaking ball from Hamel and hit it well beyond the right-field wall, a three-run shot to put Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (3-2) up 3-0 in a flash.
Yoendrys Gomez, a highly-touted Yankees prospect in his own right, pitched a clean first inning for the RailRiders, but the second inning was not his friend. The Mets scored twice in a two-batter span – Yolmer Sánchez started the inning with a walk, followed by a Ben Gamel line-drive homer that sailed over the right-field wall in the blink of an eye. The two-run shot made it a 3-2 game and gave Gamel his first home run of the 2024 regular season.
In the bottom of the second, the RailRiders struck again to increase the lead. A single and four walks pushed across two runs and made it a 5-2 game as command issues haunted Hamel. A pair of bases-loaded walks scored the pair of runs in the bottom of the second inning. Those command issues would be what eventually caused Hamel to be pulled from the game early. The 25-year-old issues seven walks in two and two-third innings, allowing five earned runs. The seven walks allowed is a career high. On the positive side, Hamel had three swinging strikeouts and allowed just two hits.
In the top of the fourth, the Mets slimmed the deficit from…
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