Saturday Afternoon at Citi Field in Game 1 of a day/night
doubleheader Bryce Harper smoked a long 2 run homer into the Pepsi porch in the
top of the 8th inning. The Nationals beat the Mets 3-1. The Met offense continued to slumber in this
one as the Mets dropped their 4th straight game. The game was a scoreless pitching duel
between Gio Gonzalez and Noah Syndergaard.
The game was scoreless into the top of the 7th when
Syndergaard gave up a solo homer to Clint Robinson, his 10th on the
year for a 1-0 Nat lead. In the bottom of the 7th the Mets came
right back to tie it. Lucas Duda walked.
Ruben Tejada singled. Curtis Granderson pinch hit for Syndergaard and hit into
a force play to make it 1st and 3rd. Juan Lagares then
singled to tie the game at 1. In the 8th,
Addison Reed came in. With one out he walked Anthony Rendon. Yunel Escobar then
hit a perfect double play ball to Daniel Murphy who bobbled the flip and the
Mets could only manage a fielder’s choice rather than an inning ending DP. It
hurt them as the next batter was Harper who launched his 42nd homer
way up into the upper deck of the Pepsi porch to give the lead to the Nats. Syndergaard gets the no-decision but was
brilliant once again. Going 7 innings allowing just 2 hits, the 1 run (earned)
walking 1 and striking out 10. For Thor his 5th time this year he
has struck out at least 10 batters in a start. Gonzalez pitched 6 scoreless
allowing just 3 hits. Rafael Martin gets the win in relief improving to 2-0. Felipe Rivero notched his 2nd save. Reed takes the loss for the Mets he falls to 1-1 as a Met and 3-3 overall. With the loss the Mets fall to 89-71 on the
year. They are 48-31 at Citi Field.
Currently they are 1 game behind the Dodgers for home field advantage in
the NLDS, but the Dodgers are yet to play today and the Met s have a second
game tonight. Speaking of which…Game two starts at 7:10 pm est. Matt Harvey
(13-7 2.80) goes for the Mets, Max Scherzer (13-12 2.91) goes for the
Nationals.
Watching Thor is a pleasure. A pitcher's career can take many a detour, but right now, this kid is on a Hall of Fame trajectory. Really special.
ReplyDeleteI think I've got it.....it's the reverse psychology thing. We'll lull the Dodgers into a sense of false security so today maybe we can be no hit again as that will surely make em over confident next week. All kidding aside did they all check out after the clinching and wouldn't it have been nice to actually field our "A" team for the 41K in attendance who paid good money to freeze their butts off and watch this embarassment. I mean really did we need to "rest" the regulars again after a day off and 4 more this week. The old "we'll turn it on when the playoffs begin" line better work TC.
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