Anthony Rizzo connected off Vic Black on a solo homer (11)
in bottom of the 7th inning. The Cubs hold on to beat the Mets 7-4. Jacob
deGrom started for the Mets and had his roughest outing of his young
career. Chicago took a 3-0 lead in the
bottom of the 2nd on a sac
fly by Eli Whiteside and a two run homer (2) by Cubs starter Travis Wood. Wood made it 4-0 in the bottom of the 4th
on a fielder’s choice. The Mets came back.
In the 6th RBI singles by Ruben Tejada and Chris Young make
it a 4-2 game. In the 7th, Andrew Brown, just up from Las Vegas,
clubbed a two run homer (2) to tie the game at 4. Vic Black relieved deGrom and
had been perfect since his recall but in the 7th Rizzo touched up
Black with the solo shot to give the Cubs the lead for good. In the bottom of
the eighth, Junior Lake hit a 2 run triple off Jenrry Mejia to cap the scoring.
The loss completes a 3 game sweep of the Mets by the Cubs. It’s the first time
the Mets have been swept at Wrigley since 2004. deGrom went 5 innings allowing
5 hits 4 runs (all earned) he walked 4 and struck out 4 getting the no
decision. Vic Black takes the loss falling to 1-1. Justin Grimm gets the win he's now 2-2. With the loss the Mets fall to
28-32 and 15-15 on the road. Friday the Mets are in San Francisco to start a
weekend series with the Giants. Jonathon
Niese (3-3 2.69) goes for the Mets. Matt
Cain (1-3 3.66) goes for the 1st
place Giants.
2 comments:
I actually like the idea of batting Chris Young leadoff and Granderson 2nd...or even vice versa...
Why havnt they tried batting Murphy in the 3 hole and Wright cleanup...i know Murphy doesnt hit a ton of home runs...but who does in our park? He would hit alot more RBIs for sure...
Brownie tried to put the team on his shoulders but it was too much, even for him. I'd imagine Terry benches him now.
Boy, when they were down 5-4 and Grandy was potential go-ahead run at the plate and did not come thru, I was led to think "where are the big, memorable hits from our $15MM guy?". A guy can hit .215, but where are the clutch, game-changing hits?
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