7/22/14

July 21st 2014 -- Mariners 5, Mets 2

Monday night in Seattle, Jon Niese had a rocky return from the DL as the Mariners beat the Mets 5-2. The Mets have now dropped 3 straight.  Niese showed the rust of not pitching for 17 days giving up 4 runs in 4 innings, while the Met offense sputtered against rookie lefty Roenis Elias. Mike Zunino hit his 14th home and  Kyle Seager drove in a pair of runs, Willie Bloomquist added an RBI double as Niese allowed 11 hits in  6 innings allowing all 4 runs (earned) while walking 2 and striking out 5. Niese takes the loss falling to 5-5 and his consecutive game streak of allowing 3 runs or less ends.  David Wright had 2 hits on the night. His RBI single in the 3rd actually tied the game at 1. In the 9th trailing 5-1, Daniel Murphy reached on an error allowing Juan Lagares to score the Mets 2nd run.  Elias gets the win, he struck out 8 in 5 1/3 before leaving with cramps in his forearm.  Travis d’Arnaud continues to stay hot as he went 2 for 4 as well. The Mets  now fall to 1-3 on this road trip. Overall they stand at 46-53 and 21-30 on the road.  Tuesday night Jacob deGrom (3-5 3.18) looks to stop the bleeding  for the Mets.  Erasmo Ramirez (1-4  4.58) goes for Seattle.

1 comment:

Tom Brennan said...

This team is improved, in my opinion. What it needed to get in the race was 1) avoid offensive droughts and 2) get lucky, such as having an unusually strong run of one run victories. The last 3 days really made it clear that having everything line up like that is unlikely.