A great season for the Binghamton Mets ended on Saturday night as the New Hampshire Fisher Cats defeated them 5-2 in Game 4 of the playoffs to take the best of five series 3 games to 1.

Ken Chenard took the mound hoping to give the Mets their second straight victory of the series. He ran into trouble in the third inning when he gave up a leadoff triple to Justin Singleton. Michael Snyder would drive him in with a one out double and that would be all that Chenard allowed in that inning.

New Hampshire extended their lead to 3-0 with 2 more runs in the fifth. Chenard would pitch solidly aside from the fifth inning allowing three runs on seven hits over seven innings pitched.

Binghamton mounted their comeback in the bottom of the seventh inning. A one out single by Aarom Baldiris and a double by Joe Heitpas created a great scoring opportunity. Gil Velazquez and Wayne Lydon would bring them in with a single and an out respectively. Ryan Houston would come in and walk Angel Pagan to put the go-ahead runs on for Ron Acuna. He went to a 3-0 count on Acuna, and then got a questionable strike two call on a pitch that appeared low. Acuna would then strike out on the next pitch to end the inning.

Micah Mangrum came on in relief for the Mets to keep the score 3-2, but he ended up killing any comeback dreams they may have had in the eighth inning. Combined with Brett Harper, he made a miscue on a grounder that put the leadoff man on. He then gave up a one out single and a walk to load the bases before throwing a wild pitch and making another error that allowed New Hampshire to get the two runs back.

Those were all New Hampshire would need for insurance. Houston would retire the Mets in order in the eighth, and DeJong came on to pitch a 1-2-3 ninth. Gil Velazquez’s pop-up was the final out of Binghamton’s season.

It has been 10 years since Edgardo Alfonzo and Rey Ordonez led the B-Mets to their lone Eastern League title. With young talent taking Capital City and Brooklyn to the postseason this year, its still possible that Binghamton will have more opportunities in the next few seasons.

Photo by the NH FischerCats.

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