The New York Mets (40-51) were defeated by the Miami Marlins (34-55) on Friday night by the score of 8-4 in Miami.

Pitching

Jason Vargas struggled against the Fish tonight at Marlins Park, he only pitched five innings, allowed six earned runs, and struck out one batter.

Robert Gsellman came into relieve for Vargas during the bottom of the sixth inning, he gave up a home run to third-baseman Brian Anderson that bumped up to score to a five-run deficit now for the Mets to climb.

Chris Mazza entered the game in the seventh inning to pitch in a long-relief assignment. The journeyman reliever pitched into the eighth inning leaving with two outs, being responsible with the runner at third base. He only allowed one earned run on a extra-base hit that got behind outfielder Jeff McNeil otherwise Mazza was probably the most consistent pitcher of the night. His earned run average is pretty respectable at (3.18).

The southpaw Luis Avilan came on in the bottom of the eighth to get the last out of the inning which resulted successfully in a caught stealing on a wild pitch at home plate.

Offense

There was really nothing for the Mets offense to show far tonight as the bats were very quiet against the dominant Miami pitching of starter Caleb Smith.

Wilson Ramos got the offense started with a two-run single passing shortstop J.T. Riddle into left field to get the team on the board 2-0 early in the game.

Todd Frazier hit a two-run homer off of Adam Conley to dead center in the final at bats of the game, the Mets were trailing 8-4 now.

Jeff McNeil went 1-for-4 with a single.

Pete Alonso struggled at the plate going 0-for-3, striking out all three times.

On Deck

Noah Syndergaard will be on the mound Saturday against the Miami Marlins. He will be making his first start of the second half and will look to get back on track. Thor is (6-4) so far this season with an 4.68 ERA, with 101 strikeouts. Rookie Zac Gallen will be the opposing pitcher, the hurler was just called up not to long ago by Miami. Gallen so far has a (0-1, 4.50 ERA), and has struck out sixteen batters. Game time will be a hour earlier than usual, first pitch will be scheduled at 6:10 p.m. EST.