August 14th 2014 -- Nationals 4, Mets 1

Thursday night Stephen Strasburg struck out 8 in 7 innings and Adam LaRoche and Bryce Harper each hit 2 run homers, the Nats sweep the Mets with a 4-1 win.  Dillon Gee started for the Mets and wasn’t sharp. In the top of the first LaRoche connected for his 17^th homer scoring Asdrubal Cabrera and it was 2-0.  In the 4^th Harper hit his 6^th on the year and 3^rd of the week off Met pitching to make it 4-0.  Gee went 6, allowing 4 runs (all earned) on 4 hits, while walking 3 and striking out 4, Strasburg went 7 allowing 3 hits 1 run (unearned) walking 1 and striking out 8. The only run the Mets managed came home in the bottom of the 4^th on a sac-fly by Lucas Duda.  Gee takes the loss falling to 4-5, Strasburg improves to 9-10, Rafael Soriano notched his 28^th save.  The Mets only squeaked out the three hits on the night, David Wright did extend his hitting streak to 13 games.  The Nats have won 11 straight at Citi Filed from the Mets and 10 of 12 in 2014. The Mets fall to 10.5 games off the pace in the NL east and are now 57-65 on the year and 28-30 at home. Next up , the new look Cubs come to town for a 3 game weekend series. Friday night Zach Wheeler (7-8  3.53) goes for the Mets, Travis Wood (7-9 4.86) goes for the Cubs.