SYRACUSE, N.Y. (Interstat) — Christian Arroyo and Cristian Pache homered and A.J. Ewing went 3 for 4 with two RBIs as the Syracuse Mets defeated the Lehigh Valley IronPigs 10-4 on Tuesday at NBT Bank Stadium in front of 1,701 fans.

Syracuse scored three runs in the first inning on Arroyo’s homer that drove in Ewing and Nick Morabito. Carter Kieboom answered for Lehigh Valley with a two-run homer in the second, and the IronPigs added single runs in the third and fourth to take a 4-3 lead. Pache tied the game with a solo homer in the fourth. Syracuse took the lead for good on a sixth-inning sacrifice fly, then pulled away on Ryan Clifford’s two-run homer in the seventh and Ewing’s two-run double in the eighth.

Carlos Guzman (1-0) earned the win with 2 2/3 innings of one-hit relief, striking out two. Alan Rangel (2-2) took the loss, allowing four runs on four hits over five innings. Lehigh Valley fell to 15-12; Syracuse improved to 13-13. Game time was 2:38.