Miracle record 9-4 triumph

The Fort Myers Miracle have the St. Lucie Mets' number this season.

On Thursday night at the Lee County Sports Complex, the Miracle beat the Mets for the sixth time in seven meetings, a 9-4 Florida State League victory.

Justin Olson started his second professional game and picked up his first win as a starter. Olson tossed five innings and allowed one run on four hits, walked one and struck out five. He threw 67 pitches, 45 for strikes.

The Miracle offense pounded out 13 hits and was able to get to Mets phenom Yusmeiro Petit. Petit, who pitched in the Futures Game during All-Star weekend, entered the game having allowed just one run in 11? innings for St. Lucie.

The Miracle's Danny Matienzo got to Petit in the bottom of the first with an RBI double into the gap in right-center.

In the second, Matienzo walked and later scored on Jose Morales' sacrifice fly.

The Mets got on the scoreboard in the fourth on Bobby Malek's homer, but the Miracle got it right back in the bottom half on a Felix Molina RBI single.

With Fort Myers up 3-2, Alex Romero came up with the big blow for the Miracle in the bottom of the sixth. With the bases loaded and two outs, Romero smacked a bases-clearing triple into the right-center field gap. He then scored on an RBI single from Ron Perodin.