4/24/10

B-Mets Game Notes - Brad Holt Activated

From Press Release:


LAST GAME: B-Mets starter Eric Niesen only lasted 1.1 innings


before exiting after allowing two earned runs due to injury.

Josh Stinson came up big in relief with 4.2 innings of shutout

baseball to pick up the win. Binghamton rallied against reigning

Eastern League Pitcher of the Week Luis Perez in the

fourth inning loading the bases on a pair of walks and a Perez

error. However, the rally was thwarted by a double play ground

ball, resulting in just one run scoring in the frame. Down 2-1

entering the fifth, the B-Mets tied the game with two outs.

Jonathan Malo ran out an infield single and was driven home

on a Kirk Nieuwenhuis double to the alley in right-center.

Niewenhuis then came around to score the go-ahead run on

an RBI single from Luis Hernandez. Binghamton wrapped up

the win in the ninth when Derrick Ellison struck out Brian

Jeroloman looking with the bases loaded to earn his first save.


STARTING PITCHING MATCHUP: RHP Brad Holt will make his

much anticipated 2010 debut for the B-Mets. Holt missed his

first three starts of the season due to a right wrist injury. Last

season, he made 11 starts for Binghamton and struggled with

a 3-6 record and a 6.21 ERA in 58 innings. He is considered

the No. 5 prospect in the Mets system by Baseball America.

Holt was drafted by the Mets as a first round supplemental

pick in 2008, going 33rd overall out of UNC-Wilmington.

RHP Kyle Drabek will start for the fourth time this season for

the Fisher Cats. In his last start, he beat Trenton with five

innings of three-run work April 19, but walked a season-high

five men. Drabek is 2-1 with a 5.17 ERA in 15.2 innings on

the season. Entering the season, he was considered the No.2

prospect in the Phillies organization before joining the Blue

Jay organization as part of the trade for ace Roy Halladay. He

was drafted by the Phillies in the first round of the June 2006

draft out of The Woodlands HS (TX).


WABICK WORTH THE WAIT: Outfielder D.J. Wabick, who is

traditionally a slow starter, started 1-18 at the plate in his

first six games. Since, he has hit in four straight games with

a .353 (6-17) average including two doubles, a homer and five

RBI. He hit just .205 (9-44) in the month of April last season.

So far, he is hitting .200 (7-25) in 10 games with Binghamton

in 2010.


HERNANDEZ HACKING: B-Mets shortstop Luis Hernandez

extended his Eastern League-best hitting streak to 11 games

last night with the game-winning hit, an RBI single in the fifth

inning. During the streak, Hernandez is hitting .349 (15-43)

with three doubles, a homer and seven RBI. He has spent

time in the Big Leagues in each of the past three seasons with

Baltimore and Kansas City.

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