As the weather worsened Friday night at Harbor Park, the Norfolk Tides fell behind and the game was suspended.
With the Syracuse Mets leading 7-6 in the seventh-inning stretch of a series opener before 6,172, the remainder of the contest scheduled for nine innings was postponed until 5:30 p.m. Saturday. A nine-inning game will follow.
Norfolk, playing as the “Caballitos del Mar” (Spanish for “Seahorses”) in its first game after the MLB All-Star break, led 6-4 but yielded four in a row, including a pair in the top of the seventh to fall behind.
Catcher Francisco Alvarez, the parent New York Mets’ former starting catcher, homered and was one of four Syracuse players with two hits.
For the Tides, Jeremiah Jackson was 2 for 2 with a run and an RBI, and Dylan Beavers clubbed a three-run homer in the fourth to put Norfolk ahead 4-3. Syracuse’s Gilberto Celestino hit a solo homer to score his second run of the game in the fifth, but the Tides moved in front 6-4 as Vimael Machín scored on a wild pitch and Terrin Vavra singled home Jackson.
José Azocar’s RBI infield single in the sixth cut the Tides’ edge to 6-5.
In the Syracuse seventh, Joey Meneses singled home the tying run before Yonny Hernández drew a bases-loaded walk, forcing home Omar De Los Santos with the go-ahead run.
Machín will bat when the game resumes.
