Mets Daily Prospect Report, 9/12/25: Championship bound

Triple-A: Syracuse Mets (31-44/40-26)

WORCHESTER 10, SYRACUSE 1 (BOX)

Uh, yeah. Worchester took a big early lead, the Syracuse offense had nothing going, and Luke Ritter wound up pitching an inning (a scoreless one, no less). The trio of top prospects – Carson Benge, Jett Williams, and Ryan Clifford – went 1-for-12 w/ five strikeouts. Whoof.

CF Carson Benge: 0-4, K

SS Jett Williams: 1-4, 2 K

1B Jared Young: 1-3, BB

LF Ryan Clifford: 0-4, 2 K

RF José Azocar: 1-4, R, SB

DH Kevin Parada: 0-2, BB

3B Luis De Los Santos: 0-1, K

2B Yonny Hernández:

1-3, RBI, SB

3B-P Luke Ritter: 0-3, 3 K, E (6)

C Matt O’Neill: 0-3, 2 K

LHP Brandon Waddell: 4.0 IP, 8 H, 7 R, 7 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, L (3-9)

RHP Oliver Ortega: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K

RHP Ty Adcock: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 2 K

RHP Kevin Herget: 1.0 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K

RHP Luke Ritter: 1.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K

Double-A: Binghamton Rumble Ponies **(45-22*/42-24)**

PORTLAND 8, BINGHAMTON 7 (BOX)

A back-and-forth affair in this one, but Binghamton ultimately dropped this one to the Sea Dogs. The Rumble Ponies took a 3-0 lead, went down 5-3 and then 6-4, rallied back to tie it at 6, then re-tied it at 7. Portland took the lead again in the ninth though, and the Rumble Ponies couldn’t pull out another rally. A.J. Ewing continued to excel with a 2-4 performance, a walk, and a steal. Omar De Los Santos went 3-for-4 as well. The pitching….is better left unmentioned.

LF A.J. Ewing: 2-4, 2 R, 3B, BB, SB (12)

CF Nick Morabito: 1-4, R, RBI, BB, K, SB (47)

DH JT Schwartz: 1-3, R, BB

PR Chris Suero: 0-0, SB (10)

1B Nick Lorusso: 2-4, R, 2B, 2 RBI

3B William Lugo: 0-5, K

SS Wyatt Young: 0-3, R, BB, K

RF Omar De Los Santos: 3-4, R, 3B, 3 RBI, K, SB (16)

2B Jefrey De Los Santos: 1-4, RBI, 2 K

C Jose Aular: 0-4, K, E (2)

RHP Brendan Girton: 2.0 IP, 3 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 0 K

RHP Jordan Geber: 3.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K

RHP Trey McLoughlin: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K

RHP Joshua Cornielly: 1.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K

RHP Carlos Guzman: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, L (4-5)

High-A: Brooklyn Cyclones **(46-20*/26-39)**

BROOKLYN 4, GREENSBORO 1 (BOX)

The Cyclones completed a two game sweep of the Grasshoppers in first round of the South Atlantic League Championship series to advance to the finals. It’s the first time they’ve reached the finals since moving to the league in the great minor league reshuffling of 2019. (For those of you wondering how the Cyclones, who went 26-39 in the second half, are in the playoffs, it’s because they won the North division in the first half.)

Joel Diaz led the way with 6.2 innings of scoreless ball, holding Greensboro off the board despite only a pair of stikeouts. The bullpen was nearly as effective, coughing up only one run in their limited work, and hte offense did more than enough to make the league stand up. Matt Rudick (formerly a personal favorite who has since been derailed by injuries) and Yohairo Cuevas tallied two runs a piece to drive the offense.

Brooklyn will host either the Hub City Spartanburgers or the Bowling Green Hot Rods for the first game of the best-of-3 championship series starting on Sunday.

SS Marco Vargas: 1-4, R, BB, 2 SB (2)

CF Yonatan Henriquez: 2-5, 2 R, 2B, K, 2 SB (3)

DH Matt Rudick: 1-3, R, 2 RBI, K, SB (2)

C Ronald Hernandez: 0-2, 2 BB

RF Yohairo Cuevas: 1-2, 2 RBI, BB, SB (1)

3B Colin Houck: 0-4

1B Trace Willhoite: 0-4, K

LF John Bay: 2-3, CS (1)

2B Diego Mosquera: 1-4

RHP Joel Díaz: 6.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, W (1-0)

RHP Hoss Brewer: 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, H (1)

RHP Dakota Hawkins: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 K

Single-A: St. Lucie Mets **(34-31*/43-22)**

DAYTONA BEACH 7, ST. LUCIE 2 (BOX)

St. Lucie dropped game 2 of their playoff series with the Daytona Beach Tortugas, and it was ugly, no other way to put it. Four errors (resulting in two unearned runs), five walks, a 1-for-8 line w/ RISP, and even a caught steal of home. A rough playoff performance to be sure. Hopefully they can rebound in the rubber match of the FSL East Divisional Series against the Tortugas on Friday.

2B Mitch Voit: 1-4, R, 2 K

CF Trey Snyder: 1-3, R, BB, K

SS Antonio Jimenez: 1-3, RBI, BB, K, SB (2), E (2), CS (1)

DH Randy Guzman: 1-3, BB, K, SB (1)

LF AJ Salgado: 0-3, RBI, BB, 2 K

C Daiverson Gutierrez: 1-4, E (1)

1B Chase Meggers: 0-4, 3 K, E (1)

RF Simon Juan: 0-4, 3 K

3B Jeremy Rodriguez: 2-4, E (2)

LHP Daviel Hurtado: 2.2 IP, 5 H, 7 R, 5 ER, 4 BB, 2 K, L (0-4)

RHP Luis Alvarez: 2.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K

RHP Omar Victorino: 4.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K