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By metstradamus | May 1, 2021 10:04 pm

On our podcast (which was recorded on Friday afternoon and am shamelessly linking to here so please listen because it was fun) I opined that the Mets were going to have their yearly 16 or 19 or 25 run game at Citizens Bank Park in this series, simply because they always seem to have it when they are at their lowest point as an offense. They’ve had these games with lineups worse than the one they throw out there this season.

After the Mets dropped four on old friend Zack Wheeler, I really thought this would have been the game that they would do it. After a Pete Alonso double, a two run double by Michael Conforto, and an RBI single by J.D. Davis, the Mets had a chance for more after a single by Dom Smith. But with the hammer in hand, James McCann left it at the feet of the Phillies dugout by grounding into a double play to end the threat.

The Phillies scratched out a couple of runs in the second, culminating with a two out RBI single by Zack Wheeler which I’m sure frustrated Taijuan Walker. And from there, the Mets were shut down completely by Wheeler, other than a two out opportunity by Brandon Nimmo with runners on second and third in the 4th, but he hit a humpback liner to Didi Gregorius to end that threat.

May 1, 2021; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm (28) rounds the bases after a two-run home run against the New York Mets in the sixth inning at Citizens Bank Park. Mandatory Credit: Kam Nedd-USA TODAY Sports

A two run HR by Alec Bohm tied the game off Walker, and this was looking like a game that would have sunk the Mets lower than they were even last night, after losing on a two run strikeout to a team with no Bryce Harper, Didi Gregorius, and J.T. Realmuto. The Mets were headed down that path, especially with injuries to Brandon Nimmo (who hasn’t looked right after coming back from the hip injury, which might have led to a problem with his groin but I’m neither a doctor nor a Mets insider, and apparently it was a bruised finger injury so please follow Anthony DiComo for correct information) and J.D. Davis who also left with a bruised finger.

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