Off-day occurrences

The major leaguers had the day off, but most of the Mets' minor league affiliates were in action, although Norfolk apparently got rained out.

Shock of shocks, the most impressive performance of the day came from David Wright as Binghamton played a doubleheader. Wright went four for four in the first game and four for seven with a walk on the day, hitting his fifth home run of the season and also stealing his tenth base in thirteen attempts. He is now hitting .374/.486/.659 and while it's probably still too early to talk about bumping him up to Norfolk, he doesn't seem to be cooling off in the least and that promotion may come sooner than we could have expected prior to the season. Justin Huber went one for three with a double and a walk on the day, but is still hitting just .172/.333/.345 in his brief time at the AA level. And Prentice Redman went two for four with two doubles and two walks and is now hitting .374/.486/.659. Trying to figure out why he's in Binghamton while Gerald Williams and Esix Snead are starting games in the Norfolk outfield is a recipe for a headache.

Yusmeiro Petit got the start for Capital City and bounced back somewhat from his rough previous outing. He went five innings and allowed just three hits and two runs, though he did walk four while striking out six. His ERA is now 1.73, his RA at 3.12 thanks to that last start and he's struck out 31 while walking nine and allowing just one home run through 26 innings.  ¶ joe | 1:12 AM |