The Mets won! They beat the Yankees 2-0, ending their eight-game losing streak.
Pitching
Seth Lugo started for the Mets and was awesome. Lugo only gave up two hits in the whole game, and those both came within the first two innings. Lugo struck out eight in this one too, two of them coming against Giancarlo Stanton. Lugo has been great in whatever role the Mets have used him in. Another impressive part of his night was his ability to hit 93 mph on the radar gun in the sixth, dialing it up to 95 mph on his last pitch. We have seen him sit 95-97 mph all season, but that’s as a reliever when he doesn’t need to conserve his strength.
Robert Gsellman came in for Lugo in the seventh inning. Gsellman pitched a 1-2-3 seventh with a strikeout and continued his strong work out of the bullpen.
In the eighth inning, Robert Gsellman gave up a one-out single to Miguel Andujar but induced a routine double-play grounder from Aaron Judge. Two problems: Jose Reyes. Receiving the throw from Amed Rosario, he didn’t step on the base which, obviously, he has to. Then, with the runner Andujar not close to him, he made a horrible throw to first base, missing Gonzalez by 10 feet to his left. Reyes was charged two errors for that play, but Gsellman was able to bail him out, giving the Mets two much-needed innings of relief.
With Jeurys Familia‘s injury, Anthony Swarzak got the save chance tonight. He struck out Giancarlo Stanton to begin the inning before walking Greg Bird. Gary Sanchez then scorched a line drive right at third baseman Todd Frazier who caught it and zipped it to first to end the game.
Offense
The Mets forced Luis Severino to throw 31 pitches in the first inning thanks to two walks by Brandon Nimmo and Jay Bruce. The Mets did not capitalize in terms of scoring runs, but it got Severino to work and prevented him from mowing down the Mets order.
They went the first four innings without a run but in the fifth, Todd Frazier mashed a two-run shot against his former club. It was his second in as many days. Jose Reyes, replacing Asdrubal Cabrera who left after the third inning with a tight left hamstring, had reached base with a single right before Frazier’s at-bat. You can call it a seeing-eye single if you want, but really it was miscommunication by the Yankees’ first and second basemen.
Brandon Nimmo went 1-for-3 with a walk as he continues to produce at the plate, now joined by Todd Frazier as the only two Mets hitters that are really producing right now.
On Deck
The Mets are off tomorrow before embarking on a three-city road trip, starting in Atlanta on Tuesday.
