The Mets (43-42) were defeated by the Giants (43-42) by a score of 3-0 Tuesday Night / Wednesday morning at AT&T Park.
Pitching:
Bartolo Colon started for the Mets, going 6 innings allowing 3 runs (2 earned) on 10 hits and 4 strikeouts. While the Giants’ hits were, for the most part, not hit too hard, they were still able to string them together and scrape together 3 runs. He was handed the loss.
Colon was relieved by Carlos Torres who proceeded to strike out the side in the 7th inning. Alex Torres, who had given up runs in his previous two outings, pitched the 8th inning for the Mets. He first faced lefty Brandon Belt but subsequently walked him, however he then induced a double play and then struck out Andrew Susac to end the inning.
Offense:
The Mets recorded four hits, all of which were extra base hits, but were unable to capitalize on any of them.
Kevin Plawecki was 2-for-3 with two doubles, the first of which hit off the wall, narrowly missing a home run. John Mayberry Jr. also doubled.
Curtis Granderson was 1-3 with a walk and a triple. He was on third with nobody out, when Ruben Tejada came up and flied a ball into shallow right field, however in foul territory. Fresh-off-the-DL Hunter Pence slid and caught the ball, and Granderson tagged up to try and score. However, with a hop and a little spin, Pence popped up and threw a perfect strike to the plate to nail Granderson by a hair. It was a tremendous play by Pence, gotta tip your cap.
Notes:
The Mets were shut out for the 10th time this season. At least it wasn’t another 1-0 loss. Actually there’s no positive way to spin that.
With the win, the Giants snapped a 7-game losing streak.
Lucas Duda is hitting .162 with one home run since the beginning of June… Oy.
On Deck:
The Mets will send All-Star Jacob deGrom (8-6, 2.30 ERA) to face Jake Peavy (0-3, 6.43 ERA) and the Giants in the rubber match on Wednesday at AT&T Park. Game time is 3:45 PM.
