Mets Rout Cubs 10-1 Led By Carrasco and Powerful Offense

Mets 1B Pete Alonso (Photo Credits to Nam Y. Huh-AP)

 The New York Mets beat the Chicago Cubs 10-1 tonight at Wrigley Field to snap their two-game losing streak and improved their record to 26-25.

In the top of the first, CF Brandon Nimmo led off with a single and two batters later, 2B Jeff McNeil and then 1B Pete Alonso walked to load the bases.

3B Brett Baty came up next and drove in Nimmo for the first run of the game with a sacrifice fly.

In the top of the third, McNeil singled with two outs and then Alonso followed with a single.

Baty then hit singled and McNeil scored on an error.

RF Starling Marte followed with a two-run single.

In the top of the fifth, McNeil singled and then Alonso was hit by a pitch.

McNeil and Alonso then executed a perfect double steal which allowed McNeil to score.

In the top of the seventh, McNeil singled with one out and then Alonso followed with a two-run homer to break the game open.

In the top of the eighth, DH Daniel Daniel Vogelbach led off with a single and two batters later catcher Francisco Alvarez doubled.

Nimmo came up next and delivered with a two-run triple and then SS Francisco Lindor capped off the scoring with a RBI single.

RHP Carlos Carrasco got off to a tough start in the bottom of the first after he gave up a solo homer to SS Dansby Swanson but settled down after that.

Carrasco had a 1-2-3 bottom of the second and worked out of a bases loaded jam in the bottom of the third.

He gave up a one-out walk in the bottom of the fourth and then retired the next 10 hitters he faced.

Carrasco gave up a two-out single to catcher Yan Gomez in the bottom of the seventh and was then taken out.

His final line was 6.2 innings, five hits, one run, two walks and four strikeouts.

Carrasco had excellent command of his fastball and change-up.

He picked up his first win of the season.

RHP Adam Ottavino came in next and got the last out in the bottom of the seventh.

RHP Tommy Hunter followed and closed it out with two scoreless innings in the bottom of the eighth and ninth.

The Mets next game is tomorrow night, Friday, May 26 at the Colorado Rockies at 8:40 p.m.