Mets vs. Giants Game 124 Recap

RHP Zack Wheeler

The New York Mets lost to the San Francisco Giants 2-1 last night in 13 innings last night and dropped their record to 54-70. RHP Zack Wheeler continued his brilliant stretch with another dominating outing. Wheeler cruised through the first six innings, but ran into trouble in the top of the seventh. Wheeler allowed the first two Giants to reach base, but then retired 3B Evan Longaio and got CF Steven Duggar to line out. LF 'Alan Hanson hit a fly ball that fell into left field which allowed SS Brandon Crawford to score. He retired pinch-hitter Hunter Pence to end the inning. His final line was 7 innings, 5 hits, 1 run, 1 earned run, 1 walk and 10 strikeouts. RHP Robert Gsellman came in next and threw two scoreless innings in the top of the eighth and ninth innings. LHP Jerry Blevins threw a scoreless top of the tenth inning. RHP Paul Sewald recorded the first two outs in the top of the eleventh and LHP Daniel Zamora had to come in to get the last out in the eleventh. RHP Tyler Bashlor threw a scoreless top of the twelfth inning, but gave up a lead-off single to Chase d'Arnaud in the top of the thirteenth inning, and had an errant pick-off throw which allowed d'Arnaud to advance to second base. He threw a wild pitch to put d'Arnaud on third and got 2B Joe Panik to foul out for the first out and catcher Buster Posey grounded out to 1B Wilmer Flores, who threw d'Arnaud out at home. SS Brandon Crawford hit a pop fly between shortstop and left field, but SS Amed Rosario and LF Dom Smith bumped into each other and the ball fell in for the go-ahead run.

SS Amed Rosario led off the bottom of the first inning with a single and scored on an RBI double by 1B Wilmer Flores. In the bottom of the sixth inning, Flores and 3B Todd Frazier both singled to start the inning, but RF Jose Bautista grounded into a double play and 2B Jose Reyes grounded out to end the inning. Pinch-hitters Jeff McNeil and Michael Conforto singled with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning, but were quickly erased off the base-paths after SS Amed Rosario grounded into a double play. In the bottom of the eleventh inning, Flores singled and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Bautista later walked and Reyes lined out to end the inning. Conforto and Rosario both walked with two outs in the bottom of the twelfth, but CF Austin Jackson popped out to end the inning, The bats went down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the thirteenth.

The Mets next game is tonight against the Giants at 7:10 P.M.