The Binghamton Mets finished the first week of the 2014 regular season in the exact same spot as they concluded their last week of the regular season in 2013 – atop the Eastern Division standings of Double-A’s Eastern League.  Pedro Lopez’s gang has won five of their first seven games and the last four games in a row.

Binghamton started their new campaign slowly losing their opener to the Akron Rubber Ducks, 7-1, and dropped two of their first thee games to the Ohioan team.  But  the B-Mets closed their four game set with a 5-4 win over  Akron, swept a two game series over Erie with back-to-back 7-2 wins, then downed New Hampshire, 9-1, in the first game of a four game set on the Fischer Cats’ home diamond.

Strong starting pitching has carried the B-Mets after their opening day hiccup.  Through seven games Binghamton has recorded an impressive 3.05 ERA, the fourth best mark in the Eastern League.  After struggling with command opening day, B-Met ace Darin Gorski sizzled on Thursday night in New Hampshire, striking out 10 in six innings of work lowering his earned run average to 0.93.

Earlier in the week Hansel Robles threw five scoreless innings in his Double-A debut and Matthew Bowman allowed one tally in an outing of similar length.  Adam Kolarek and Jon Velasquez have still not yielded a run in three relief appearances and Cody Satterwhite has been perfect in two chances.

Binghamton’s offense has been on fire over their four game winning streak batting .308 over that span.  Darrell Ceciliani leads all B-Met batters hitting .400 with 3 doubles and a triple.  Travis Taijeron and Matt Clark are hitting .385 and .364 respectively and match Ceciliani’s double total.  Clark leads the team with 14 total bases over the first week of play.  Wilfredo Tovar is off to an impressive start on offensive and defense batting .353 and making several outstanding defensive plays.