Davis hits homer on MiLB rehab assignment
ST. LUCIE METS PRESS RELEASE: PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (April 9, 2023) – The Daytona Tortugas completed a three-game sweep over the St. Lucie Mets with a 6-3 victory on Easter Sunday at Clover Park.
Daytona's Wendell Marrero hit a RBI double in the seventh inning off Mets reliever Javier Atencio to break a 1-1 tie.
Logan Tanner and Malvin Valdez hit back-to-back doubles against Atencio to start the eighth inning to increase the Tortugas lead to 3-1. Michel Triana capped the inning with a two-run single for a 6-1 lead.
The Mets clawed back into the game in the bottom of the eighth. Jacob Reimer hit a hustle double and Carlos Dominguez drilled a RBI triple. Vincent Perozo then lined a run-scoring single to center that made it 6-3.
Tortugas relievers Mason Pelio and Easton Sikorski retired the next two batters to stop the bleeding in the eighth. Sikorski worked around a leadoff walk in the ninth to close out the game for his first save.
Daytona starting pitcher Jared Lyons tossed four scoreless innings before giving way to Pelio. In the three-game series the Tortugas starting pitchers threw 11 scoreless innings with five hits, three walks and 14 strikeouts.
Mets starting pitcher Felipe De La Cruz walked the first batter of the game and needed 31 pitches to get through the first inning. However, he limited the Tortugas to one run in the inning on a single and error.
Jaylin Davis, on MiLB rehab assignment, tied the game in the sixth with a solo home run. The Mets homered in all three games of the series.
Atencio took the loss. He allowed five runs and five hits over 1.2 innings.
Reliever Robert Colina pitched 3.2 scoreless innings of one-hit ball. He struck out three.
Perozo went 2 for 3 with a pair of singles and a walk. The top six batters in the Mets order registered a hit.
The Mets (0-3) are off Monday. They return to action on Tuesday when they start a six-game road series at the Jupiter Hammerheads. First pitch from Roger Dean Stadium on Tuesday is 6:30 p.m.
Carlos Dominguez lined a run-scoring triple for the @stluciemets today. 👀 pic.twitter.com/g5H7yGe41e
— Mets Player Development (@MetsPlayerDev) April 9, 2023
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