Ronny Mauricio hits three homers as Syracuse crushes Worcester 12-3

Ronny Mauricio turned Polar Park into a showcase, blasting three home runs and anchoring Syracuse’s 12-3 win over Worcester on Tuesday night. Syracuse scored a season-high 12 runs, hit five homers and erased any doubt quickly after the middle innings, while the Red Sox absorbed their worst loss of the season and slipped to 11-10.

The Mets were quiet through three innings before Mauricio opened the fourth with a solo shot to right-center. Cristian Pache followed with an RBI single in the same inning, and Syracuse kept pressing from there. Nick Morabito led off the fifth with a homer to left-center, Mauricio answered with his second blast, a two-run drive that made it 5-0, and Pache added another RBI single to stretch the margin to 6-0.

Ryan Clifford delivered the biggest swing of the night in the sixth, launching a grand slam to center field that pushed the lead to 10-0 and effectively ended Worcester’s comeback hopes. Mickey Gasper finally got the Red Sox on the board with an RBI single in the bottom of the sixth, but Mauricio answered again in the eighth with a two-run homer for his third of the game and a 12-1 Syracuse lead. Worcester added two runs in the ninth, long after the game had been decided.

Pache finished 4-for-5 and recorded the first four-hit game by a Syracuse Met this season, giving the lineup more than one loud answer. Morabito, Mauricio, Pache and Clifford all contributed to the offensive avalanche, but Mauricio’s night carried the clearest significance for the Mets’ organization. The 25-year-old switch hitter is on the 40-man roster, and this was the kind of impact performance that strengthens his case as a bat capable of forcing its way back into the big-league picture.

The three-homer outburst was Syracuse’s 17th in franchise history and its first since Trayce Thompson did it on May 17, 2024. Mauricio finished the night with 6 home runs and 13 RBIs in 2026 Triple-A play, and the performance marked another step in a development arc that began when the Mets signed him as an international free agent out of the Dominican Republic in July 2017 and accelerated with his major league debut on September 1, 2023.