Big Eighth Inning Lifts K-mets To 8-0 Victory Over Princeton

KINGSPORT — Sometimes it’s all about being patient. Mark Vientos, the Mets’ 2017 second-round pick, got his first hit of the Appalachian League season Wednesday. After seven scoreless innings, Vientos delivered a single to score Shervyen Newton from second in the bottom of the eighth inning to give the Kingsport Mets (2-0) their first run of the game against the Princeton Rays. From there, the floodgates opened. The K-Mets proceeded to add seven more runs in the eighth on nine total hits in the inning on the way to an 8-0 victory over Princeton (0-2) at Hunter Wright Stadium. “We finally woke the sticks up in the eighth.