The New York Mets (31-43) were defeated by the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-3 at Citi Field on Saturday night. The Mets have lost 11 straight games to the Dodgers dating to May 28, 2016.

Pitching

Jacob deGrom took the start against the Dodgers tonight. DeGrom had a quality start pitching six solid innings. He gave up three earned runs, five hits, walked three, and struck out six. The rough start, in deGrom standards, raised his season ERA to 1.69.

Robert Gsellman pitched the seventh and eighth inning after coming in for relief for deGrom. Gsellman struggled immensely tonight giving up a total of five earned runs including a pinch-hit grand slam off of Matt Kemp. 

Drew Smith made his major league debut with the Mets out of the bullpen tonight in the ninth inning. Smith pitched a scoreless inning giving up no hits, no runs though he did walk two.

Hitting

In the bottom of the second inning, the Mets started to get their offense rolling with a double right down the right-field line by Michael Conforto. Then the next batter Jose Bautista cranked a double down the left field line to tie the game 1-1.

Next inning, Jacob deGrom lead off with a single against Clayton Kershaw. Two batters later Todd Frazier hit a dribbler to third baseman Justin Turner, Turner misplayed it which got Frazier to reach base with runners at 1st and 2nd now. Then with Wilmer Flores up at bat, Wilmer drove in the go-ahead run with a hard-struck single pass the shortstop to left field to score deGrom making it a 2-1 lead for the Mets.

Jose Bautista homered for the second straight day in the bottom of the eighth to cut the Mets deficit to 8-3.

Nimmo had three hits on the day while Frazier and Bautista had two.

The Mets offense was 2-for-12 with runners in scoring position.

On Deck

The New York Mets will be playing the final game of their three-game series against the Dodgers tomorrow. Jason Vargas has been scratched from the start and is going on the DL with a calf strain. Rich Hill will be pitching for the Dodgers. Game time is 1:10 p.m. ET and game will be televised on Pix 11.