If Mets followers weren’t properly acquainted with Rafael Ortega earlier than, they is likely to be after Sunday night time. The reserve outfielder who was known as up from Triple-A Syracuse after the commerce deadline went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI within the Mets’ 7-6 win over the Atlanta Braves on Sunday night time at Citi Field.
The Mets went down 3-0 within the first inning however scored six runs in a wacky fifth inning to return again and stop a four-game sweep by Atlanta (75-42). The inning began with Ortega singling off right-handed starter Yonny Chirinos and ended with Collin McHugh on the mound after the Mets batted round. Six runs have been scored on 4 hits, three walks and a catcher’s interference. Omar Narvaez and Mark Vientos each walked with the bases loaded and DJ Stewart was initially awarded first base after being hit by a pitch, which was later dominated catchers interference.
Ortega had two hits within the inning, one in opposition to Chirinos (5-5) and a two-run single in opposition to McHugh that gave the Mets (53-65) a 7-3 lead.
But the league-leading Braves got here again. Grant Hartwig took over for Kodai Senga within the seventh and left a meatball of a sinker proper out over the plate for Sean Murphy. The catcher drove it 455 ft into the left subject stands to chop the result in 7-4.
Baseball’s dwelling run chief Matt Olson hit his forty third of the season within the eighth off Brooks Raley. The lefty got here in to switch Hartwig with one on and one out. Olson is simply in regards to the hardest out within the NL and he managed to golf a sinker that was low and inside to deliver the guests again to inside one run.
But Adam Ottavino shut the door within the ninth, retiring the facet as a way to convert his seventh save.
Senga (9-6) struggled by means of the primary inning earlier than settling in and holding the Braves scoreless over the subsequent 5. He allowed three earned runs on 4 hits, walked two and struck out seven over six innings. Getting him by means of six was a boon to a beleaguered bullpen, but it surely didn’t appear like the right-handed rookie would get that far when he wanted about 30 pitches to get by means of the primary inning.
All three runs got here within the first when Senga gave up a leadoff single, two walks and a one-out double to Marcel Ozuna with the bases loaded. He quieted the Braves after that, permitting solely two extra hits.
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