The New York Mets (20-23) were defeated against the Marlins (11-31) on Friday night at the score of 8-6 in Miami. The Mets offense threatened to come back during the late innings but fell short.
Pitching
Jacob deGrom struggled immensely on the mound tonight versing the Marlins tonight. He had no command struggling with his breaking pitches particularly. His final line after getting pulled after the 5th inning was six earned runs, nine hits, only struck out three batters. DeGrom’s earn run average has gone up to 3.98.
Paul Sewald gave up one earned run in two innings of work, struck out three batters.
Jeurys Familia pitched a beautiful 1-2-3 inning in the eighth, striking out one batter, and no walks.
Offense
Pete Alonso provided the Mets offense with a boom with his 13th home run of the year to give deGrom a 1-0 lead to work with.
J.D. Davis hit a towering two-run home run to dead center field for his fourth homer of the season to cut the Mets deficit to 7-3.
Alonso started an eighth inning rally off by hitting a mammoth shot to left field for his 14th home run of the year making the score now 8-4.
Three batters later with bases-loaded with no outs, Juan Lagares comes up to bat with a chance to cash in which he did successfully by serving a single into left field to score the second run of the inning. Brandon Nimmo hit a deep sac-fly into center-field driving the Mets sixth run of the game getting them closer.
Wilson Ramos hit a double against Sergio Romo with two outs in the top of the ninth to give the Mets some life, but unfortunately Adeiny Hechavarria struck out swinging on a slider to end the game.
Todd Frazier, Nimmo, Ramos, Alonso, and Lagares each had two hits in the game.
On Deck
Steven Matz will pitch coming off the injured list against the Marlins on Saturday as he opposes righty Pablo Lopez. Lopez gave up eight runs in the first inning last time he pitched against the Mets earlier this season. Game time is 4:10 p.m. ET.
