Syracuse had its shot to make up ground, but the night turned into another costly step backward in the chase.
The Mets’ Triple-A club built a 4-0 lead and still walked away with a 6-5 loss to St. Paul, a result that mattered even more because Scranton/Wilkes-Barre also lost.
Syracuse entered the day one game behind the second-place RailRiders and 1.5 games behind the first-place Redwings, with the two teams facing each other. By night’s end, Syracuse was two games back of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and 2.5 behind Rochester.
Hayden Senger got Syracuse moving in the third inning, blasting his 12th homer of the season and bringing home Ryan Clifford, who had reached third on a triple. One inning later, Eric Wagaman added two more RBI to stretch the lead to 4-0.
Justin Hagenman held things together for a while, allowing just one run in the fourth before exiting. After that, the game spun hard the other way.
Ryan Lambert took over and ran into a nightmare inning, giving up a three-run homer to tie the game, then issuing another walk before he was pulled after recording only two outs. Brian Metoyer came in next, but he too surrendered a home run before the inning finally ended.
Syracuse suddenly found itself trailing 6-4.
The Mets made one last push in the ninth when Billy Amick hit a two-out solo homer, his eighth of the year, to cut the deficit to one. But Ryan Clifford grounded out softly to short, and that was that.
At the plate, Senger finished 1-for-3 with the homer, two RBI, and two strikeouts. Clifford went 1-for-3 with a triple, a run scored, a walk, and a strikeout.
Amick was 1-for-4 with a run, the homer, an RBI, and a strikeout. Wagaman finished 1-for-4 with an RBI.
D’Andre Smith, Émilien Pitre, and Ronny Mauricio were all hitless, while MJ Melendez and Vidal Bruján each scored a run and drew a walk.
On the mound, Hagenman went 4.0 innings and allowed two hits, one run, and one earned run, with two walks and one strikeout. Lambert took the loss, finishing with 0.2 innings, one hit, four runs, four earned runs, two walks, one strikeout, and a hit batter.
Metoyer allowed one hit and one run in 0.1 innings. Zach Franklin, Jefry Yan, and Saul Garcia each worked scoreless innings after that.
Syracuse now heads home to finish the season against the 32-25 Lehigh Valley IronPigs. Rochester will take on the 31-35 Buffalo Bisons, while the RailRiders face the 29-39 Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp.
In Binghamton, there was no game because of inclement weather, and the Double-A season is over.
Star of the Night: Hayden Senger
GOAT of the Night: Ryan Lambert
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