Game Recap: DeGrom, Alonso Lead Mets to Big Win Over Braves, 10-2

The Mets got a much needed win in an easy fashion against the Braves on Tuesday night in Atlanta by a 10-2 score. Jacob deGrom was great and the offense backed him up. (Box Score)

Pitching

As mentioned, deGrom was brilliant. He got a lead and essentially ended the Braves chances of winning the game.

In the first inning, he gave up a one-out double to Dansby Swanson but then struck out Freddie Freeman and got Josh Donaldson to ground out to end the threat. DeGrom then retired the side in order in the second inning with a strikeout of Nick Markakis.

The third inning was a similar result for deGrom, he set down the side 1-2-3 including a strikeout of Ronald Acuna Jr. The fourth inning started out similar. He retired Swanson and Freeman before giving up a two-out single to Donaldson. This snapped a streak of 10 in a row retired by deGrom. He decided to start a new streak though.

He struck out Austin Riley and Ozzie Albies as part of a 1-2-3 fifth inning. The sixth featured strikeouts of Camargo and Swanson. DeGrom looked like he was not planning on slowing down at all and was full steam ahead to pitch well into this game.

In the seventh, he had the Freeman and Donaldson to take down. He got Freeman to ground out and got Donaldson to strikeout. He also got Markakis to hit into a 3-1 putout. DeGrom was still hitting 99 MPH on the stadium’s radar gun. At this point, he had retired 20 out of the last 21.

The eighth is when deGrom got a little unlucky but still did not break. He hit Riley and gave up an infield hit to Johan Camargo but got Acuna to fly out to end the threat.

The Mets sent him out for the ninth inning. He retired his first guy but Freddie Freeman hit a homer off him to make it 10-1. The Mets let him continue but he gave up a homer to Josh Donaldson. The Mets went to Robert Gsellman to finish off the victory.

Offense

Pete Alonso, Jeff McNeil, and Michael Conforto all spearheaded the charge. No surprise there seeing as how all three are the Mets three best position players.

Alonso doubled in the first inning but the Mets did not score in the inning. They also got a couple of baserunners on in the second inning courtesy of walks to Todd Frazier and Carlos Gomez. They still did not score though.

The third is when they made their break through against Teheran. McNeil and Alsono doubled to make it 1-0. Robinson Cano walked to put men on for Michael Conforto. Conforto proceeded to double home Alonso to make it 2-0. Todd Frazier grounded out but a run scored and followed Amed Rosario with a RBI single make 4-0.

In the fourth, McNeil got on via an infield hit. Alonso then hit a two-run homer for his 24th of the season. It seems increasingly likely that he will not only pass the Mets single season home run record, but actually obliterate it.

In the sixth inning, deGrom doubled to lead off the inning. A few batters later, Alonso walked. Robinson Cano then doubled home deGrom to make it 7-0. The Braves walked Conforto to get to Frazier but they could not find the strike zone against him and he walked to make it 8-0.

In the eighth inning, Conforto hit his 14th home run of the season. The next inning, McNeil hit his fourth of the season. Alonso also walked in the ninth to mark his sixth time reaching base on the night.

The Mets trio of Alonso, McNeil, and Conforto got on base 13 times and all three homered and doubled.