Thursday afternoon at Citi, Justin Upton hit a 3 run homer
off Jeurys Familia in the top of the 9th inning. The Padres come
from behind and beat the Mets 8-7. The Mets went into the top of the 9th
with a 7-5 lead. Familia got the first
two outs of the 9th when a rain delay came. When the game resumed the Friars got singles
by Derek Norris and Matt Kemp. Upton followed with the three run bomb, his 18th
to give the Padres the lead. The Mets
constructed a 7-1 lead. The Mets took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the 1st
when Curtis Granderson doubled to center. Moved to 3rd on a fly out
by Ruben Tejada and scored on a sac-fly by Daniel Murphy. In the 5th Kevin Plawecki singled
and was erased on force play by Niese trying to bunt. Juan Lagares walked and then Granderson hit
his 16th home run to right center clearing the bases for a 4-0 lead.
Niese was sharp on the day. In his last outing he was distracted by his wife
being in labor. Thursday the new Father pitched with a purpose. Niese ran into a speed bump in the 6th.
He allowed an RBI single to Matt Kemp to make it 4-1. Then with the bases
loaded and 1 out he got Jed Gyorko to ground into an inning ending double play.
In the 6th Juan Uribe hit his first Met homer, a solo shot to make
it 5-1. Lagares hit a sac-fly scoring
Michael Conforto and it was 6-1.
Tejada’s RBI single scored Plawecki and it was 7-1. Derek Norris was a
one man wrecking crew on the day. He went 5 for 5 including a grand slam in the
7th off Hansel Robles to pull the Padres to within 7-5. Bobby
Parnell got into the bases loaded jam. Hansel Robles yielded the slam, for
Norris his 12th homer on the year. In the 9th Upton powered the Padres
to the 8-7 win. The game was delayed a second time and much longer after the
top of the 9th. When play resumed Craig Kimbrel retired the Mets
1-2-3 to notch his 30th save. Niese went 6 innings allowing 6 hits
the 1 run (earned) walking 1 and striking out 6. Familia takes the loss falling
to 2-1. Familia is in a horrible slump blowing his 3rd consecutive
save. Marcos Mateo gets the win he’s now
1-0. With the loss the Mets drop to 52-50 on the year and 35-18 at home. The
Nats won on Thursday afternoon so the Mets fall to 3 games out, going into this
weekend’s series. Friday, the Nationals come to Flushing for a 3 game battle
for 1st place. Friday night Matt Harvey (9-7 3.16) goes for the
Mets, Gio Gonzalez (8-4 3.83) goes for Washington.
4 comments:
Can anyone tell me why TC took Niese out of th e game after 6 Solis inning and 87 pitches? He should have started the 7th unless I missed something - especially since the bull pen threw 6 innings last night
I also can't blame Fam
Cut myself off - meant to say I can't blame Familia for blowing it after the rain delay - TC should have let someone else go for the last out - that delay was too long
This team seems to be cursed
I say we exercise the manager as a start
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