| Jonah Tong, Photo by Matt Kipp, courtesy of the Binghamton Rumble Ponies |
For Immediate Release
Date: May 17, 2025 By: Jacob Wilkins
Box Score: Jett Williams CF 1 for 6; Nick Morabito LF 3 for 4; HR; double; 3 runs; 1 RBI; 1 walk; Omar De Los Santos PH-LF 0 for 1; Ryan Clifford 1B 2 for 3; double; 2 runs; 3 RBIs; 2 walks; 1 K; Nick Lorusso 3B 1 for 4; 2 RBIs; JT Schwartz* DH 1 for 5; double; 1 run; 1 RBI; 3 Ks; William Lugo SS 2 for 5; double; 2 runs; 1 RBI; 2 Ks; Kevin Parada C 2 for 5; 2 HRs; 2 runs; 4 RBIs; 1 K; Alex Ramírez RF 2 for 4; double; 1 run; 1 walk; Wyatt Young 2B 1 for 4; 1 run; 1 walk; 1 K; Jonah Tong (W, 2-2) 6 innings; no runs; 2 hits; 2 walks; 8 Ks; Carlos Guzman 1 inning; no runs; 1 hit; 2 walks; 1 K; Luis Moreno 2 innings; no runs; 1 hit; 1 walk; 2 Ks;
HARTFORD, CT – The Binghamton Rumble Ponies (21-16) exploded for 12 runs over the last four innings and blanked the Hartford Yard Goats 12-0 on Saturday night at Dunkin’ Park.
Jonah Tong (2-2) allowed just two hits over six scoreless frames, with two walks and eight strikeouts as part of a four-hit shutout against Hartford (21-16), Binghamton’s fourth shutout of the season.
Kevin Parada had a pair of two-run homers and finished with 4 RBIs. Nick Morabito had a three-hit game and finished a triple shy of the cycle, while every Rumble Ponies hitter in the starting lineup had at least one hit, as Binghamton totaled 15 hits on the night.
The game was scoreless for the first five innings, before Morabito hit a lead-off home run to right to start a five-run sixth. Later in the frame, JT Schwartz’s RBI double made it 2-0, William Lugo followed with an RBI single, before Parada’s two-run blast down the left-field line made it 5-0.
After Nick Lorusso’s sacrifice fly in the seventh made it 6-0, the Ponies loaded the bases with two outs in the eighth. That brought Ryan Clifford to the plate, who launched a bases-clearing double off the center field wall to extend the lead to 9-0. The next batter, Lorusso, hit an RBI single to left to score Clifford and cap off a multi-RBI night, making it 10-0.
In the ninth, after Lugo hit a lead-off double, Parada belted his second two-run homer of the night, this time to right field, to give the Rumble Ponies a season-high in runs and make it 12-0.
Tong has pitched 12.2 consecutive scoreless innings and has allowed one run over his last 20.2 innings pitched (four starts). Over that four-game stretch, he has a whopping 39-to-6 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
The two teams have split the first six games of the series and play the rubber game of the seven-game set on Sunday afternoon, with first pitch at 1:10 p.m. and the NYCM Insurance pregame show getting underway at 12:55 p.m. on the WNBF Rumble Ponies Radio Network.
POSTGAME NOTES: Morabito finished 3-for-4 with three runs scored and his third homer of the season, it was also his second three-hit game and sixth multi-hit game of the year…Clifford finished 2-for-3 with two runs scored, three RBI, and two walks, he has a team-leading 10 multi-hit games in 2025…It was Parada’s third multi-homer game of his career and first at the AA level, he has five hits and has reached base six times over his last two games, and now has three home runs on the season…Lugo and Alex Ramírez also had multi-hit games…the Rumble Ponies now have 27 hits over the last two nights.
Morabito mashed it 💣
— Binghamton Rumble Ponies (@RumblePoniesBB) May 18, 2025
🎠x #NeedForSteed x @NickMorabito1 pic.twitter.com/uvqVQwLE7G
JT Schwartz smoked it ⚡️
— Binghamton Rumble Ponies (@RumblePoniesBB) May 18, 2025
🎠 x #NeedForSteed pic.twitter.com/BBh4XaIiRV
William Lugo drives in another run 🔥
— Binghamton Rumble Ponies (@RumblePoniesBB) May 18, 2025
🎠 x #NeedForSteed pic.twitter.com/oBgZzYk9F7
Parada Party 🎉🚀
— Binghamton Rumble Ponies (@RumblePoniesBB) May 18, 2025
🎠 x #NeedForSteed x @parada_kevin_ pic.twitter.com/T08OoB94mw
Jonah Tong's last start? Perfect. This start? More dominance.
— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) May 18, 2025
The @Mets' No. 6 prospect K's 8 over 6 scoreless frames and has 48 strikeouts in his past 25 innings for Double-A @RumblePoniesBB. pic.twitter.com/XnIzNCq6DD
Clifford clears the bases 🔥@ryanclifford21 has 15 RBIs in 15 games in May
— Binghamton Rumble Ponies (@RumblePoniesBB) May 18, 2025
🎠 x #NeedForSteed x @MetsPlayerDev pic.twitter.com/q88qWBZHI1
The hometown kid comes through 👏
— Binghamton Rumble Ponies (@RumblePoniesBB) May 18, 2025
🎠 x #NeedForSteed x @NickLorusso2 pic.twitter.com/AoeMdKvICI
Parada Party ... AGAIN 💣🚀
— Binghamton Rumble Ponies (@RumblePoniesBB) May 18, 2025
Career-high 2 HR and 4 RBI tonight
🎠 x #NeedForSteed x @parada_kevin_ pic.twitter.com/5fzzsZH9EA

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