Mets Lose to Giants 3-2 And Continue To Struggle With Men On Base

Mets 1B Pete Alonso (Photo Credits to Vincent Carchietta-USA Today Sports) The New York Mets lost to the San Francisco Giants 3-2 tonight at Citi Field to get swept in their three-game series and dropped their record to 61-66. RHP Carlos Carrasco got off to a tough start in the top of the first after he gave up a two-run homer to 3B Kris Bryant, but settled in after that. Carrasco had a 1-2-3 top of the second inning and then finished up strong after he retired the last 12 hitters he faced. His final line was 7 innings, 3 hits, 2 runs, 0 walks and 5 strikeouts. RHP Seth Lugo followed in the top of the eighth and gave up a lead-off single to CF Mike Yastremski and then hit catcher Curt Casaili. Lugo gave up a RBI single to the next hitter pinch-hitter Darin Ruff and was then taken out. LHP Aaron Loup came on and then gave up a walk to load the bases, but then got pinch-hitter Thairo Estrada to gound out to 3B Jonathan Villar to glove-flip the ball home for the first out. Loup then struck out Bryant and retired SS Brandon Crawford on a pop-out to end the inning. RHP Trevor May followed with a scorless top of the ninth. The offense didn't do much for the first five innings included double-plas ground-outs by 2B Javier Baez in the bottom of the the third and LF Dominic Smith in the bottom of the fourth. In the bottom of the sixth, Baez doubled with one out and then 1B Pete Alonso followed with a two-run homer. After a scoreless bottom of the seventh, Baez led off the bottom of the eighth with a single and then Villar and pinch-hitter Michael Conforto walked to load the bases. Pinch-hitter Jeff McNeil then came up and hit a sharp grounder right at Crawford to end the inning. They went down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the ninth and were 1-5 with runners in scoring positon and left nine men on base. The Mets next game is tomorrow night at home against the Washington Nationals at 7:10 p.m.