By CHUCKIE MAGGIO
Jackson Tetreault breezed through the first five innings of his start against Syracuse on Friday night. With just 66 pitches on his ledger and a lone run surrendered, a sixth frame of work was a foregone conclusion.
The sixth, however, tilted the outcome. Tetreault allowed a Wyatt Young leadoff single before yielding back-to-back home runs to Nick Plummer and Daniel Palka, pushing Syracuse in front 4-2. Red Wings manager Matt LeCroy pulled the 25-year-old two batters later, after a one-out single.
Tetreault, still seeking his first victory of the 2022 season, flung his glove against the dugout wall in disgust. The Red Wings lost 6-4, their first defeat to Syracuse this year.
“He missed his spot on the one pitch, with the homer that went into center field,” LeCroy acknowledged, referring to Nick Plummer’s third homer of the season. “He just kind of lost a little bit of command there, but overall I thought he had a really solid outing. I hate that it was somewhat ruined there in the sixth, but this is a positive sign in the right direction for him.”
Tetreault did well to escape the third inning with only one earned run, as he issued a leadoff walk to Mark Vientos and surrendered a single to Carlos Cortes to place runners on the corners with no one out. A double play scored Vientos, the only Met to cross the plate until the sixth.
Rochester gained a fourth-inning lead, jumping ahead 2-1 on a Nick Banks single. Luis García tied the game in the third with a double, his 16th and 17th total bases in the last three games.
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Syracuse starter Connor Grey, however, did well to quiet a surging Rochester lineup. Grey turned in his first five-inning outing of the season, holding the Red Wings to two runs on five hits while striking out five batters. The 27-year-old earned the victory, his first with the club.
“I thought his secondary pitches, he was able to mix them in very well with the fastball,” LeCroy assessed. “So you’ve gotta tip your cap. We’ve been hot, and he’s coming in and he did a nice job of mixing, keeping us off-balance. You run into those guys sometimes. You’ve gotta keep your chin up and come back tomorrow, go back to fighting.”
Andrew Stevenson hit a solo home run in the ninth, a development made more interesting when Dee Strange-Gordon singled to bring García to the plate as the tying run. García, however, grounded out to short.
“Any time you can bring Luis up to the plate, down two, that’s always good for us,” LeCroy stated. “Come back tomorrow and play two, hopefully get after them pretty good.
“Really proud; they keep fighting. We just didn’t come out on the right end of the stick tonight.”
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