HOUSTON — Some may name Wednesday’s recreation between the Mets and the Houston Astros an journey. Some may name it ugly. Really, there isn’t any scarcity of adjectives when attempting to explain the Mets’ 10-8 loss to the defending World Series champs at Minute Maid Park.
The Mets (34-40) dropped the collection, 2-1, and continued to sink deeper into this June gap they’ve dug themselves into (6-12 this month).
The go-ahead run got here within the backside of the fourth from Alex Bregman, who put the Astros (41-34) up 7-6 when he flared one into heart area. But the massive hit got here from Yainer Diaz, who teed off on the primary pitch he noticed from Dominic Leone (1-3) — a middle-in fastball — and put it into the Crawford bins to present Houston a 9-6 lead.
Pete Alonso’s twenty third residence run of the 12 months practically tied the sport for the Mets once more within the sixth. Facing former Mets’ right-hander Rafael Montero, he crushed a 2-0 sinker. Alonso despatched the ball 438 ft into the left-center seats, bringing the Mets again to inside one. But the Mets failed to attain once more and Ryan Pressely retired the facet so as within the ninth for his second save in a row and his 14th this season.
Another disastrous inning allowed the Astros to attain an insurance coverage run within the seventh.
Rookie left-hander Josh Walker was hit with a comebacker and left the sport injured. Adam Ottavino couldn’t make a play at residence. It wasn’t practically essentially the most attention-grabbing inning.
Things went downhill proper from the beginning. It took practically an hour to play two calamitous innings. The Mets loaded the bases thrice and solely capitalized as soon as in that span. The Astros took a 2-0 lead within the first inning, then gave it up within the prime of the second solely to load the bases towards Tylor Megill and go away them loaded within the backside of the inning. There was a runner’s lane violation by Alonso within the first that was a part of a kind-sorta double play. Megill and Christian Javier couldn’t appear to search out the strike zone. There had been 10 walks in 2 1/2 innings. Javier didn’t final lengthy, getting pulled after permitting 4 earned runs over 2 1/3 innings on 4 hits, 5 walks and one hit batter.
Megill additionally lasted solely 2 1/3. He exited with the sport tied 4-4. Leone couldn’t maintain his inherited runner on base, giving up a monstrous residence run to Chas McCormick to place the Astros up 6-4 within the backside of the third.
The Mets tied it at 6-6 within the prime of the fourth when Daniel Vogelbach (3-for-5, three RBI, one double) despatched a bases-loaded single by way of the infield hole to attain two. The Astros had simply gone to the bullpen to get the third out of the inning, however right-hander Phil Maton hit Jeff McNeil to load the bases and convey up Vogelbach.
The greatest takeaway from this recreation continues to be Megill.
He completed with 5 runs (4 earned) on 4 hits with 4 walks. He struck out solely two. The Mets might not have some other alternative however to demote him to Triple-A Syracuse. He’s 6-5 with a 5.17 ERA.
It’s unlucky since he regarded as if he was turning a nook his final day out, however he has regarded that means a number of instances this season and has but to point out that he can get previous this dismal stretch. Instead, it seems to be as if he has regressed. The Mets are going to have to determine why Megill and left-hander David Peterson have each taken steps again this season.
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