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Allentown, PA – The Syracuse Mets and the Lehigh Valley IronPigs engaged in one of the strangest baseball games you will ever see on Wednesday night. First, Lehigh Valley scored 12 runs in the first three innings to roar out to a massive lead. Then, Syracuse scored the next 11 runs to harbor dreams of one of the greatest comebacks in franchise history. However, it wasn’t to be. The IronPigs scored the final two tallies of the game to finish off a wild, 14-11 win on a warm evening in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The two teams have now split the first two games of the week-long, six-game series.
Lehigh Valley (50-45, 14-8) got right to it, scoring twice in the bottom of the first to take a 2-0 lead right out of the gates. After Simon Muzziotti reached on an error leading off the frame and then Kody Clemens flew out, Weston Wilson took a hanging breaking ball from José Butto and smacked it over the right-center field wall for a two-run blast. The IronPigs have had an affinity for the long ball so far this week. Even in their 10-3 loss on Tuesday, they still managed to hit three home runs. Weston Wilson hit one of those homers on Tuesday as well.
Nursing a 2-0 lead entering the bottom of the third, the IronPigs seemingly put the game well out of reach with an inning that Syracuse (40-56, 7-15) would soon like to forget. Lehigh Valley scored ten times in the third on five hits plus four walks, sending 13 batters to the plate in the fateful frame. The momentous third inning for the IronPigs was capped off by a grand slam by Aramis Garcia that made it a 12-0 game. Garcia had also doubled earlier in the frame, and he was the only IronPigs to have any extra-base hits in the ten-run flurry. The other three hits were singles from Esteban Quiroz, Simon Muzziotti, and Kody Clemens. All of those singles drove in runs.
While the IronPigs batters hummed along early in the contest, their starting pitcher handled his business. Drew Hutchison allowed just one hit…
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