A.J. Ewing AAA-Syracuse Debut | Mets Prospects Highlights
Mets top prospect A.J. Ewing makes his AAA debut, notching three hits for Syracuse.
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He awaits the O two.
cracks it high in the air, deep to center field.
Barroa hustling back at the gap, ranges and can't make the grab.
The wall's broken open.
AJ Ewing round second, he's into third with a stand-up triple.
His first triple A hit breaks the left center field wall.
What a way to introduce yourself to the Syracuse faithful.
I mean, we see it all there, the contact, power, speed.
That's AJ Ewing experience.
I mean, he sent Stuart Barroa into a blender out in left center field.
Went right through that wall.
And Ewing just waltzes into third base, taps his helmet, calm as ever.
Exactly.
Two-two again.
Arroyo smacks it deep to right center field.
Barroa hustling back.
At the wall, it's gone.
Big time three run home run from Christian Arroyo over the right center field wall.
Three-nothing Mets with one out in the first.
A great adjustment by Arroyo there.
He sees, you know, almost the full arsenal for Rangel, everything but the changeup, gets a high fastball up at the letters and just crushed it.
Christian Pache.
A one pitch.
Pache smashes the ball into left field, and that one is way gone, into the bullpen bar.
Pache ties the game in the fourth.
Hernandez comes set and fires home.
Ewing with a broken bat, grounder to short.
Alcantara fields, and there's no way he's gonna get the speedy AJ Ewing.
Infield single to start the bottom of the seventh.
Ewing had his head down the entire way.
That was a slow rolling ground ball, but Ewing was not going to lose the battle.
And Alcantara, Alcantara did not even throw over to first.
the last three innings.
One-one pitch is hammered deep to right field.
No doubt about it, Clifford with a moonshot.
A jaw-dropping two run blast, and it puts the Mets up eight-four.
Do not try to backdoor slider Ryan Clifford.
Oh, my.
That ball has a family.
That is his fifth home run in the last two weeks.
Hitter's count, three-one.
Ewing slaps it down the left field line.
It drops in for a base hit.
Pache scores from third, Rortvedt scores all the way from second.
The first two triple A RBIs for AJ Ewing.
The Mets number three prospect is having quite a triple A debut, just one leg away from the cycle.
He just looks like he belongs at this level already.
He's 21 years old.
He rips a double down the line, scores two as Mets offense is humming.
It was already in a good spot, now you add Ewing in the leadoff position and you're cooking with gas
