Putting a slim lead within the arms of the Mets bullpen is a dangerous sport nowadays. It was no completely different Friday evening when David Robertson gave up a three-run homer to a rookie catcher from the San Francisco Giants, dooming the Mets to a 5-4 loss within the first sport of a three-game collection at Citi Field.
Up 4-2, the staff went to David Robertson, their most trusted high-leverage reliever to start out the eighth inning. After getting the primary out, Joc Pederson reached on an error when Alonso couldn’t make a flip to Robertson at first base. He then walked J.D. Davis to place two on.
Then got here Patrick Bailey, a 24-year-old taking part in in simply his thirty third massive league sport. Robertson (2-2), a 38-year-old veteran who has pitched extra like a 24-year-old this season, threw him a cutter for a strike, a knuckle curve outdoors after which one other one proper over the plate. Bailey did what a hitter at any degree would do with a mistake pitch and drove it out of the park to place the Giants (46-36) again on prime.
The Mets (36-46) are actually a season-worst 10 video games beneath .500. When Pete Alonso smashed his bat over his knee after making an out to finish the fifth inning, it mentioned all you could know in regards to the Mets proper now.
Tommy Pham went 3-for-4 with a house run and two runs scored, Jeff McNeil went 2-for-4 with two RBI doubles and Francisco Lindor additionally went 2-for-4 with a run scored.
Carlos Carrasco lasted solely 5 innings. He was efficient, limiting San Francisco to solely two earned runs on 5 hits and three walks whereas putting out six, however three of these hits and a kind of walks got here in a busy second inning that drove up his pitch rely. Only one run crossed and Carrasco obtained out of a bases-loaded jam to stop additional injury by getting former Mets utility man Wilmer Flores to floor right into a pressure out.
Flores, nonetheless, homered within the fifth inning to tie the sport at 2-2. His homer run got here simply after Brandon Nimmo made a unbelievable leaping seize on the wall to rob Lamonte Wade Jr. of additional bases.
But the Mets helped out Carrasco within the backside of the inning. McNeil, who doubled dwelling Francisco Lindor within the first inning, scored Brandon Nimmo on a double to left discipline off right-hander Alex Cobb. A San Francisco fan alongside the rail grabbed for it, deflecting it into the stands. The umpires dominated it fan interference Giants supervisor Gabe Kapler challenged the decision nevertheless it was upheld and the go-ahead run was deemed secure.
With the Mets up 3-2 within the sixth and Cobb out of the sport, Pham homered off Taylor Rogers to provide the Mets an insurance coverage run.
Cobb had the same line to Carrasco, permitting three earned on six hits, strolling two and putting out three.The Mets went 7-19 within the month of June. One month gained’t outline a whole season, nevertheless it’s attainable the Mets miss playoffs due to the outlet they dug themselves this previous month.
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