The New York Mets (44-53) were defeated for the second consecutive game against the San Francisco Giants (49-49) by the score of 1-0 in 10 innings.
Dominic Smith, playing left field, made a costly error in extra innings to allow the winning run to score.
Smith on the final play of the game: “The ball went up and I had a good read on it, good lead. In the last second, I got scared because last year we (Rosario) collided and stuff like that. Just took my eye off the ball because of what happened and I ended up dropping it.”
Pitching:
Jacob deGrom was stellar on the mound for the Amazin’s tonight, as he hurled seven scoreless innings on 108 pitches. DeGrom struck out 10 batters, allowed three hits, and walked three batters. Tonight he also passed former Met/SNY Mets broadcaster Ron Darling on the team’s All-Time strikeout list.
Luis Avilan pitched a scoreless eighth inning, only allowing one base runner.
Jacob Rhame got the assignment to pitch the ninth inning. The righty, coming off his one-game suspension, got into a little trouble, walking two batters during the inning, but was able to finagle his out of the inning by striking out Joe Panik. Rhame’s outing was extended into the 11th inning, where he gave up the walk-off hit on a pop up off of Pablo Sandoval which Dominic Smith made an error on that allowed the winning run to score.
Offense:
The Mets offense looked puzzled at the plate tonight against Giants’ starter Tyler Beede. Beede was nothing but efficient, going eight scoreless innings. Jeff McNeil, Robinson Cano and Wilson Ramos were the only hitters to manage a base-hit.
Pete Alonso struggled at the plate going 0-for-4, as he struck out three times.
The Mets left five runners on base, and they were 0-for-1 with runners in scoring position.
On Deck:
Walker Lockett (0-1,11.74) will be getting the call up tomorrow in place of the injured right-hander Zack Wheeler to make his third start of the year.
Lockett allowed 10 runs in his two previous starts with the Mets. The Giants will be sending veteran Jeff Samardzija to get the nod against the Mets (7-7, 3.93). He will look to extend his recent success on the mound, as he has had an earned run average of 1.66 in his last three starts. The scheduled game time will be at 4:05 p.m. EST. Also the game will be televised on PIX 11.
