The Mets avoided a sweep in their Sunday matinee with the Brewers by winning 5-2 at Citi Field, scoring three runs late in the game to take the lead. (Box Score)

Pitching

Long Island’s Steven Matz was the starter for the Mets today. He retired the side in order in the first inning. He gave up a one-out hit to Mike Moustakas in the second inning but worked around that with a ground out and a subsequent strikeout of Manny Pina.

In the third inning, Orlando Arcia reached on an infield hit but Matz got his counterpart and almost teammate, Gio Gonzalez to strikeout. Then he got a weak ground ball to the newly inserted second baseman, Jeff McNeil, which he turned into a double play by quickly tagging Arcia and throwing it to first.

In the fourth, Matz gave up a single to Christian Yelich but proceeded to strike out Ryan Braun and followed that up by getting a double play from Jesus Aguilar.

His fifth was a clean 1-2-3 inning by getting a popup from Moustakas and groundouts from Hernan Perez and Pina. His sixth inning was also a 1-2-3 inning by inducing a ground out from Arcia, a lineout from Thames, and a ground out from Cain.

The seventh is inning is where Matz got hit the hardest. He gave up a bloop single to Ben Gamel (who came in for Yelich). He managed to get a fly out from Braun and struck out Aguilar but a two-run homer from Moustakas tied the game at 2. His final line was: 7 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 4 K.

Seth Lugo came on for the eighth inning to protect a 3-2 lead at the time. He pitched a 1-2-3 eighth inning by striking out Pina, Arcia, and Travis Shaw.

Edwin Diaz protected a 5-2 lead in the ninth inning. He did so by pitching a scoreless, 1-2-3 inning.

Offense

Pete Alonso tripled with one out in the first inning and Juan Lagares proceeded to walk after taking over for Robinson Cano. Todd Frazier singled home Alonso to make it a 1-0 game.

Brandon Nimmo led off the next inning with a single of Gonzalez. Amed Rosario doubled him in with a well-hit ball to right-center.

The Mets did not have much offense until the seventh inning though. Rosario had a two-base error thanks to Ben Gamel. The Brewers walked Michael Conforto intentionally get a lefty-lefty matchup of Alex Claudio and Dominic Smith. The Mets burned Smith though to get a J.D. Davis-Claudio matchup and it paid off. Davis lined a single into left to give the Mets a 3-2 lead.

In the eighth inning, Wilson Ramos singled with one out. Brandon Nimmo walked and Michael Conforto also walked to load the bases with two-outs for Tomas Nido. Nido doubled home two runs to give the Mets some breathing room and made it a 5-2 game.

On Deck

The New York Mets welcome the Cincinnati Reds to town tomorrow at Citi Field. Zack Wheeler (2-2, 4.85 ERA) will take the ball for the Mets against Tanner Roark (1-1, 3.24 ERA). The game will start at 7:10 p.m. and can be seen on SNY.