Mets Lose to Diamondbacks 6-5 in 10 innings after bullpen blows late lead

Mets RHP Marcus Stroman (Photo Credits to Getty Images) The New York Mets lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-5 in Arizona in 10 innings tonight to snap their five-game winning streak and dropped their record to 6-5. The bats were quiet for the first three innings until the top of the fourth when 1B Pete Alonso singled with with two outs and LF Dom Smith followed with a two-run homer. In the top of the sixth inning, 3B Jonathan Villar led off with a single and SS Francisco Lindor followed with a RBI triple. Alonso then walked and Smith drove in Lindor with a sacfirice fly. In the top of the tenth, catcher James McCann led off the inning with 2B Jose Peraza on second as the automatic "ghost runner" and drove him with a RBI double. RHP Marcus Stroman cruised through the first five innings, but in the bottom of the sixth he ran into trouble after he gave up singles to CF Ketel Marte and 3B Eduardo Escobar and two batters later a three-run homer to 1b Pavin Smith. Stroman was able to recover and didn't allow any more run in the inning and was taken out after the inning. His final line was six innings, six hits, three runs, 0 walks and six strikeouts. RHP Jeurys Familia followed with a scoreless bottom of the seventh inning. LHP Aaron Loup then threw a scoreless bottom of the eighth inning. In the bottom of the ninth, RHP Edwin Diaz came out and started out well striking out catcher Stephen Vogt, but then gave up a single to SS Nick Ahmed. Diaz got pinch-hitter Domingo Leyba to ground out for the second out, but was not able to close it out after he gave up a game-tying RBI single to 3B Josh Rojas. In the bottom of the tenth, RHP Trevor May came on for the save with the automatic runner at second, and got pinch-hitter Chad Kelly yto ground-out, but then walked Pavin Smith and gave up a RBI walk-off double to RF Josh Reddick. The Mets next game is tomorrow at the Diamondbacks at 3:40 p.m.