Mets Lose To Mariners 2-1 After Offense Struggles To Deliver Timely Hit

Mets RHP Max Scherzer (Photo Credits to USA Today)

 The New York Mets lost to the Seattle Mariners 2-1 tonight at Citi Field and dropped their record to 22-12.

RHP Max Scherzer came out firing with three perfect innings, but ran into trouble in the top of the fourth after he hit 1B Ty France and then gave up  a single to SS J.P Crawford and  a RBI single to LF Jesse Winker.

Scherzer settled down after that with scoreless innings in the top of the fifth and sixth and got out of  a based loaded one out jam in the top of the seventh with an inning ending double play and was taken out after the inning.

His final line was 7 innings, 3 hits, 1 run, 2 walks and 6 strikeouts.

RHP Drew Smith followed and ran into trouble in the top of the eighth after he gave up back-to-back walks to start the inning and then a RBI single to France.

Smith recovered to strike out the next two hitters and retired Winker on a pop out to end the inning.

The offense got off to a fast start in the bottom of the first after CF Brandon Nimmo led off with an infield single and then RF Starling Marte followed with a double and SS Francisco Lindor then hit a sacrifice fly.

1B Pete Alonso walked, but then 3B Eduardo Escobar struck out and then LF Mark Canha grounded into a fielder's choice to end the inning.

The bats did not do much after for the next few innings until they had a rally with two outs in the bottom of the seventh after catcher Tomas Nido walked and Nimmo followed with a double, but Marte struck out to end the threat.

They went weakly 1-2-3 in the bottom of the eighth and ninth innings and were 0-5 with runners in scoring position leaving seven runners on base.

The Mets next game is tomorrow night, Saturday May 14th at home against the Mariners at 7:10 p.m.