In front of a sold out crowd at Citi Field, the New York Mets (4-3) defeated the Philadelphia Phillies (3-4) by a score of 2-0 on a beautiful sun drenched day for the home opener.
Pitching
Jacob deGrom may have not been at his dominating best today, but he was a surgeon out there today and used his skill and smarts to shutdown the Phillies for 6 1/3 innings, scattering seven hits, walking one and striking out three.
With today’s effort, DeGrom ran his scoreless streak to 11 1/3 innings, and lowering his ERA to 1.46 for the season. He is now 6-3 with a 1.56 ERA at Citi Field in his career.
Carlos Torres took over for deGrom after consecutive one-out singles in the seventh. He got pinch hitter Cesar Hernandez to ground out while striking out Ben Revere looking to end the threat.
Jerry Blevins tossed a perfect eighth and so far this season he’s retired all eight batters he has faced, all lefties. Jeurys Familia converted his second consecutive save despite being squeezed by the home plate umpire.
Offense
The Mets got the only run they needed in the fourth after Juan Lagares beat out a come-backer to the pitcher to score Daniel Murphy.
It remained 1-0 until the eighth when the Mets scored an insurance run thanks to an error by second baseman Chase Utley that setup a sacrifice fly by Travis d’Arnaud to score Michael Cuddyer.
It was a great win for the Mets and the crowd was electrifying from the first pitch all the way to the last out. It gave me goosebumps to see Citi Field resonate the way it did.
On Deck
Matt Harvey will make his first home start since Aug. 24, 2013 and opposes Phillies right-hander David Buchanan on Tuesday at 7:10 PM.
