Mets Beat A's 9-2 Led By Bassitt and Escobar

Mets RHP Chris Bassitt (Photo Credits to Thearon W. Henderson-Getty Images)

 The New York Mets beat the Oakland Athletics 9-2 tonight at RingCentral Coliseum in Oakland, CA and improved their record to 96-66.

After a scoreless top of the first, 1B Pete Alonso and DH Darin Run singled to begin the top of the second inning.

Two batters, later, 2B Jeff McNeil singled to load the bases.

DH Mark Vientos followed with a RBI single.

Catcher James McCann struck out, but then CF Brandon Nimmo came up and capped off the inning with a two-run single.

The bats did not do much in the next two innings, but came alive once again in the top of the fifth.

CF Brandon Nimmo led off with a single and LF Mark Canha followed with a double.

SS Francisco Lindor flew out, and then Alonso was intentionally walked to load the bases.

Ruf followed with a fly out and then 3B Eduardo Escobar came up and broke the game open with his first career grand slam.

McNeil followed with a single and then Vientos hit a RBI double for his second RBI of the game.

In the top of the seventh, Ruf was hit by a pitch with one out and two batters later, McNeil hit a RBI double.

RHP Chris Bassitt cruised through the first six innings, but ran into some trouble in the bottom of the seventh after he gave up a lead-off double to catcher Sean Murphy and a RBI single to the following hitter CF Seth Brown.

Bassitt stayed in for the bottom of the eighth and gave up a solo homer to 1B Dermis Garcia and was taken out after the inning.

His final line was eight innings, six hits, two runs, one walk and two strikeouts.

He picked up his 15th win.

RHP Drew Smith closed it out with a scoreless bottom of the ninth.

The Mets next game is tomorrow afternoon, Saturday, September 24th at the Oakland Athletics at 4:07 p.m.