Mets Shutout By Padres 6-0 And Eliminated From Postseason

Mets RHP Chris Bassitt (Photo Credits to Wendell Cruz-USA Today Sports)

 The New York Mets lost to the San Diego Padres 6-0 tonight at Citi Field in Game 3 of the NL Wild Series and are now eliminated from the postseason.

RHP Chris Bassitt started out well with a scoreless top of the first, but ran into trouble in the top of the second after he gave up a lead-off single to DH Josh Bell and after retiring the next two hitters, walked SS Ha-Seong Kim and CF Trent Grisham to load the bases.

Bassitt then gave up a two-run single to catcher Austin Nola.

Bassitt had a scoreless top of the third, but was let down by his command once again in the top of the fourth after he walked Kim with two outs who then stole second and then gave up a RBI single to Grisham and was taken out after the inning.

His final line was four innings, three hits, three runs, three walks and two strikeouts.

LHP David Peterson came in next in the top of the fifth and gave up a lead-off single to LF Jurickson Profar and two batters later, a RBI single to 3B Manny Machado.

RHP Drew Smith came in next and threw a scoreless top of the sixth.

RHP Seth Lugo followed and got the first two outs in the top of the seventh.

RHP Mychal Givens had to come in to get the last two out in the top of the seventh.

Givens stayed in for the top of the eighth and gave up a lead-off walk to Kim and then gave up a single to Grisham and was taken out.

RHP Edwin Diaz followed and retired the next two hitters he faced, but then gave up a two-run single to RF Juan Soto.

RHP Trevor May came in next and threw a scoreless top of the ninth.

The offense did nothing all night against RHP Joe Musgrove who had a dominating performance with seven scoreless innings allowing one hit.

They had one hit for the entire game and and went 0-2 with RISP leaving two runners on base.

This is a tough and disappointing ending to a season that had so much promise with 101 wins for the second most wins in franchise history.

Now that the season has ended, there are a lot of question marks with the starting rotation and lineup due to all of the free agents on the roster.

It will be interesting to see how this roster takes shape for next year.

Thank you everyone for all your support this season. 

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