Fri Sep 03 2010
AKRON — The Akron Aeros appeared to have missed an opportunity to clinch the Southern Division title in front of the home faithful Sunday afternoon, dropping a 5-3 final to the Binghamton Mets before 4,867 fans at Canal Park.
However, a few hours later on Sunday, second-place Reading lost a 1-0 decision in seven innings to Bowie, a loss that clinched the Southern championship for the Aeros (81-53) after all.
The B-Mets (51-81) struck first in the first, as consecutive doubles from Jose Coronado and Ike Davis put the visitors on the board. D.J. Wabick added an RBI single later in the inning to take a 2-0 lead, but the Aeros cut the margin in half in the bottom of the inning on Jerad Head’s two-out RBI base hit.
Binghamton got the run right back in the top of the second. Salvador Paniagua led off the inning with a first-pitch home run to left-center, and Davis added a solo blast of his own in the third to make it 4-1.
Aeros starter Bobby Livingston settled in from there and kept the B-Mets off the board for the next four innings, but Akron could manage only an RBI double from Armando Camacaro in the bottom of the fourth to cut the deficit to 4-2.
The Mets got a big insurance run in the top of the eighth on Davis’ broken-bat RBI single to center with two strikes and two outs, and though Akron did push a run across in the bottom of the ninth on Jose Constanza’s groundout, the Aeros never got the potential tying run to the plate.
Eric Brown (6-14) earned his first win in a month for Binghamton, allowing just two unearned runs and five hits in six innings.
Livingston (2-5) surrendered five runs and nine hits in 72⁄3 innings in the defeat.
No Aeros had multi-hit games after seven players accomplished the feat Saturday night.
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