Mets Lose to Braves 5-4 on walk-off in bottom of ninth

Mets LHP David Peterson (Photo Credits to Brett Davis-USA Today Sports) The New York Mets lost to to the Atlanta Braves 5-4 to drop their record to 20-17, but still maanged to take two out of three games in the series. The offense was held scorless for the first three innings against Braves starter RHP Charlie Morton, but in the top of the fourth, 3B Jonathan Villar homered to lead off the inning. The bats went quiet for the next few innings until the top of the seventh after 1B Dominic Smith reached on a throwing error by Braves reliever LHP AJ Minter with two outs and advanced to second. Catcher James McCann followed with a walk and then 2B Jose Peraza came through with a RBI double. Pinch-hitter Tomas Nido then delivered a two-run single which scored McCann and Peraza. In the top of the ninth inning, CF Cameron Maybin reached first on a wild pitch, stole second and then advanced to third on another wild pitch with one out. McCann gave up with an opportunity for a go-ahead hit, but popped out to third and then Peraza lined out to third to end the inning. LHP David Peterson started out well and cruised through the first four innings with five strikeouts, but it all unraveled for him in the bottom of the fifth. Peterson gave up a one-out double to 3B Austin Riley and got SS Dansby Swanson to ground out for the second inning, but he was not able to get out of the inning after he hit catcher William Contreras, and then allowed an RBI single to CF Guillermo Heredia and then gave up another RBI single to Morton. Peterson then gave up a based loaded walk to CF Ronald Acuna Jr on a wild pitch which scored Heredia and moved Morton to second. Peterson next gave up a single to 1B Freddie Freeman and was taken out of the game. His final line was 4.2 innings, five hits, three runs, one walk and five strikeouts. RHP Drew Smith came in and induced a ground-ball to LF Marcell Ozuna to end the inning. Smith stayed in for the bottom of the sixth and worked around a based loaded jam after he got pinch-hitter Pablo Sandoval on a line-out to end the inning. RHP Miguel Castro followed with a scoreless bottom of the seventh inning. LHP Aaron Loup came on in the bottom of the eighth and wasn't able to have nay command after he gabe up a double to Riley and then a single to Swanson and a game-tying RBI single to Contreras. RHP Jacob Barnes came in next and struck out Heredia and then McCann threw out Swanson trying to steal third and struck out pinch-hitter Ehire Adrianza to end the inning. Barnes stayed in for the bottom of the ninth and gave up a walk-off homer to Acuna Jr on the first pitch he threw. The Mets are off tomorrow and return to action on Friday, May 22th at the Miami Marlins at 7:10 p.m.