Cory Mazzoni (4-3, 4.38): 6 IP, 9 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 3 BB, 6 K - 66% strikes (66 of 99) - 5 ground outs/4 fly outs. Mazzoni's been missing bats over his recent starts, but also giving up lots of hits and runs. The Mets second round pick in 2011 has allowed at least three runs in each of his last eight starts, and five runs or more in half of those octet.

No one had more than one hit including RF Cesar Puello (1-for-4) and LF Travis Taijeron (1-for-4, 2B).

This Hickory team is amazing and unusual. At the plate, they are young, athletic and they lead the SAL in strikeouts and homeruns, by a lot.

Jake Kuebler allowed a runner to at least second base in every single one of his innings. He had little to keep Hickory off his fastball: 5 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 2 K.

The Mets drafted clearly expected more from the 20-year-old who was drafted in the 15th round in 2011, but who received a $650,000 bonus - the equivalent of second round money. Since that low-point in mid-June, Evans has bounced back, hitting .349/.420/.488 with three doubles, a home run, five walks and six strikeouts in his next 13 games to pull his overall line back to .204/.276/.269 in 72 games in the South Atlantic League.

Gnats' manager Luis Rojas points to a set of mechanical changes that has impacted both Evans' swing and his approach, "He's working on getting that load early, so he can see the ball and actually have more balance in his swing. That's something that had him really struggling early in the season. He was off-balance and wasn't really recognizing pitches well. Now, getting him ready so early, minimizing the movement, is making him recognize pitches and see which pitch he can drive and see which pitch he can take is getting him into really good counts to hit."

The important thing here is not the final score, but who did not play to the final out: C Kevin Plawecki. Plawecki left the game in the top of the sixth. Sources at the game told me he tried to field a breaking ball in the dirt and ended up "in pain." I hope to have a precise body part and diagnosis on Friday.

One of the consequences of Plawecki leaving, when Cam Maron was in the lineup as the Mets' DH was that when Maron moved over to catcher, the Mets lost their DH. That's pretty rare?occurrence?is entertaining.

There were lots of interesting individual performances in this one, in a game St. Lucie lost in extra-innings when the Marauders scored twice against Randy Fontanez.

C Kevin Plawecki picked up three singles to push his batting average over .300 in five games in A+ (.304, 7-for-23).

Little Angel Cuan?was outstanding: 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 9 K. St. Lucie manager Ryan Ellis told MiLB.com that it was the best he had ever seen the soft-tossing Cuan.

Jeurys Familia and Scott Atchison each threw a scoreless inning of relief with one strikeout. According to the gang at MetsBlog, Terry Collins told reporters that Familia will be headed right back to Vegas to continue his rehab.

The Mets scored five times in the final two innings, but it was not enough to overcome an early 7-0 deficit. Why were the Mets down big? Domingo Tapia was wild in his return from the DL with a burned (non) pitching hand: 0.1 IP, 2 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 4 BB, 0 K, HBP. Just yuck. It was his first game in 19 days, but that's not good.

At the plate, 3B Aderlin Rodriguez (.261/.287/.484 - 45 games) was 3-for-5 with an RBI. The 21-year old is bopping along at .345/.376/.632 in 21 games in May.

SS Philip Evans (pictured) had one at-bat on Saturday and popped out to first base. He was then removed from the game by Gnats' manager Luis Rojas because he did not run out the play. "It's organizational policy," Rojas explained after the game. "We talked about it, and he [Evans] understands." The 20-year-old Evans has had a tough start to the year, hitting .189/.254/.226 through 15 games with seven errors.

The good: 1B Jayce Boyd: 3-for-4, 1 2B, BB, 4 RBI. The 22-year-old is hitting .387/.473/.532 with 10 walks against nine strikeouts (!) in his 16 games with the Gnats.

The game winning rally in the bottom of the 10th: CF Gilbert Gomez walked, C Cam Maron ground a single to right field and then 2B TJ Rivera ground a single to left field.

Domingo Tapia: 6 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 K, 10 groundball outs, and three flyouts. The ground balls are good, but Tapia should miss more bats with his fastball. I worry that relatively few strikeouts means opposing hitters are sitting on his fastball and making contact rather than fearing his slider at all.

Bats/Throws:?Right/Right

Height/Weight:?6?1?, 198 lbs

Part three, on players 26-30 is here, part two on players 31-35 is?here,?part one, on players #36-41 is?here.

On Mateo:

Brandon Nimmo was 0-for-4 Monday, but reached on a hit-by-pitch, his first of the year. In his eight games as a Cyclone, he's hitting .185/.421/.259 (5-for-27) with 10 walks and seven strikeouts. Nimmo is the only NYP League player with double-digit walks. Early in the year, manager Rich Donnelly raised the wanted Nimmo to attack more. Be that as it may, 10 walks against seven strikeouts is a fine week's worth of work.

Monday, SS Philip Evans (pictured) was 2-for-4 with a triple, his first. The 19-year old has had about as good a first week in Brooklyn as anyone could reasonably expect. He's 9-for-22 with a double, two homers, and seven walks against four strikeouts for a .310/.459/.586 line. The NYP League as a whole is hitting .248/.327/.344. The Mets went overslot to sign Evans, last year's 15th round pick, for $650,000, the third-highest bonus of the team's draft class.

The Yankees scored six times in the seventh inning to turn a close game into a laugher.

Don't blame starter Hansel Robles, who was effective through five innings: 5 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 7 K. According to Dave Gershman at the Penn League Report, the 21-year old was sitting 90-91 and touched 94 with a usable slider and curveball. Robles, who is listed at just 5'11", 185, put up good numbers in the Kingsport bullpen a year ago. Sounds like a reliever to me.

Height/Weight: 5?10?, 185 lbs

Acquired: 15^th rd 2011 (La Costa Canyon HS)

SSA - BrooklynNo player had a better professional debut than Danny Muno, the Mets' eighth-round selection out of Fresno State who hit .355/.466/.514 for Brooklyn in the New York Penn League. ?Forget the batting average for a moment: he walked (in 16% of his PA) more than he struck out (14.6% of his PA). ?He led the NYP in OBP ?and was third in slugging. ?He rapped out 23 doubles, tied for the NYP lead, and accounted for an extra-base hit in over 10% of his plate appearances. ?His 43 walks were third in the NYP.

- Domingo Tapia was dominant on the hill in Friday's clincher: 6 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 6 K. ? It was the first time sine his first start of the year, on June 22 against Johnson City in the Appalachian League, that he struck out as many batters as innings pitched and fanned three times as many as he walked. After struggling early in the Appalachian League season, Tapia put together a 3-1 August with a 1.13 ERA in which he allowed just 17 hits in 24 innings, walking nine and fanning 15.

- Philip Evans played shortstop Saturday and Sunday, going a combined 1-for-8.

Game 2- Hudson Valley Renegades 7, @ Brooklyn Cyclones 0

?Travis Taijeron's two-run triple in the bottom of the sixth, lifted the Cyclones to a 3-1 victory in the first game of a doubleheader. ?Taijeron also had an rbi double in the fourth inning. He finished the doubleheader 4-6, 2B, 3B, 3 RBI.

The GCL season ended Saturday, so the Mets promoted two of the jewels of their 2011 draft class, first rounder Brandon Nimmo and 15th rounder Philip Evans to Kingsport for the final three games of the Appalachian League season.

Nimmo, batting ninth, and playing centerfield, was 1-for-2 with two walks and a strikeout. In eight games as a professional, Nimmo has hit .258/.361/.452 with five walks and 10 strikeouts.

SS?Danny Muno just keeps hitting: 2-for-4 with a double and a walk. ?The Mets eight-round pick out of Fresno State, the 22-year old Muno is sitting at .332/.434/.492, tops in the NYP in on-base percentage and third in slugging.

? ? ? @ Brooklyn Cyclones 3, Tri-City Valley Cats 2- 8 innings

Amauris Valdez sent home a crowd of 5,814 jumping for joy, as his first home run of the season lifted the Cyclones to a 3-2 victory in walk-off fashion. ?The home run was also the first extra base hit for the seldom used Valdez (18 games).