All season long he’s been the Binghamton Met pitching ace.  Wednesday in Richmond Greg Peavey delivered his biggest outing of the year, seven innings of one run ball, helping the B-Mets down Richmond, 5-1, in the Eastern League finals.  The victory marks the fourth straight Binghamton road win and sends the B-Mets back home to NYSEG Stadium needing just one win to become the Eastern League Champion.

The longer he worked, the stronger Peavey performed against Richmond.  The B-Met ace retired the final 8 Flying Squirrels in order and fanned five of the last six batters he faced.  Peavey allowed five hits while striking out nine without walking a batter.

The B-Mets continue to get offensive contributions from top to bottom in their batting order.  Wednesday it was catcher Xorge Carrillo who wore the hero’s laurel.  After Dustin Lawley opened the second with a walk, Carrillo ripped a shot over the leftfield wall to put Binghamton ahead, 2-0.

Back-to-back Mario Lisson and Devin Harris doubles to lead off the home second plated the only Richmond run of the game.  Angel Villalona followed with a ground single to leftfield, but with no one out the Flying Squirrels opted to hold Harris at third.  Peavey recovered to get Tyler Horan to pop out to Dustin Lawley at third, struck out Tyler LaTorre on a called strike three, and retired Adalberto Mejia on a comebacker to the mound.

That was the last threat against Peavey who allowed only LaTorre to reach first the rest of the way on a one out single in the 5th.

The score remained 2-1 until the visitor’s eighth when the B-Mets scored three more times to break the game open.  The rally started when Brandon Nimmo worked a one out base-on-balls.  T.J. Rivera grounded out shortstop to first with Nimmo advancing to second.  Richmond chose to walk Brian Burgamy intentionally, and Travis Taijeron made them pay, slamming a three run dinger over the leftfield fence.

Randy Fontanez pitched a scoreless eighth inning helped by a B-Met double play.  Cody Satterwhite was perfect in relief in the ninth striking out the first two batters he faced and securing a game ending double play.

The four straight post season victories is a first in Binghamton history.  The B-Mets will send Steven Matz to the NYSEG mound on Friday in a bid to close out a series sweep and win their first Eastern League title since 1994.