The New Hampshire Fisher Cats kicked off their season with a homer, but couldn’t put any more runs on the board in a 2-1 loss to the Binghamton Mets Friday.
The Fisher Cats opened the scoring in the top of the second when Melky Mesa hammered a fastball from Robert Gsellman over the right field wall for a solo homer.
Binghamton answered shortly thereafter, though, with Jeff McNeil pounding a solo homer of his own off Fisher Cats starter Jeremy Gabryszwski to even the score at 1-1 in the bottom of the third.
The score stayed knotted until the eighth, when reliever Colt Hynes surrendered consecutive doubles to Kyle Johnson and McNeil to bring home the go-ahead run.