Mets Beat Giants 8-4 And Win First Series In a Month

Mets LF Tommy Pham (Photo Credits to Gregory Fisher-USA Today Sports)

 The New York Mets beat the San Francisco Giants 8-4 tonight at Citi Field to take two out of three games in the series and improved their record to 38-46 for their first series win in a month. 

Their last series win was against the Philadelphia Phillies from May 30-June 1.

The Met offense was held scoreless for the first two innings against RHP Ross Stripling, but then came alive in the bottom of the third.

Catcher Francisco Alvarez walked with one out and then CF Brandon Nimmo followed with a single and LF Tommy Pham walked to load the bases.

SS Francisco Lindor followed by flying out to centerfield, but then DH Pete Alonso drew a walk to tie the game.

2B Jeff McNeil followed with a two-run single bringing in Nimmo and Pham.

In the bottom of the fourth, 1B Mark Canha led off with a solo homer and then three batters later Nimmo walked.

Pham followed with a RBI double.

The bats did not do much for the next two innings, but in the bottom of the seventh, Alonso led off with a double and then McNeil hit a ground-out to the right side which allowed Alonso to move to third.

RF Starling Marte followed with a RBI single.

In the bottom of the eighth, Pham doubled with one out and two batters later Alonso broke the game open with a two-run homer his 25th homer of the season.

LHP David Peterson started out well with two scoreless innings, but gave up a RBI ground-out to 2B Thairo Estrada in the top of the third.

Peterson had a scoreless top of the fourth and was taken out after the inning.

His final line was four innings, three hits, one run, three walks and three strikeouts.

RHP Grant Hartwig followed with two scoreless innings in the top of the fourth and fifth.

Hartwig picked up his first win of his career.

RHP Jeff Brigham came in next in the top of the seventh but had a rocky outing after he gave up a two-run homer to pinch-hitter Blake Sabol and a RBI double to J.D. Davis and was pulled after that.

RHP Dominic Leone and LHP Brooks Raley combined to finish out the top of the seventh.

Raley stayed in for the top of the eighth and struck out two out of the first three batters he faced and was then taken out.

RHP Adam Ottavino came on and then walked 1B Wilmer Flores and then hit Estrada to load the bases with two outs

Ottavino came back to strike out Davis to end the inning.

RHP David Robertson closed it out with a scoreless top of the ninth.

The Mets are off tomorrow and return back to action on Tuesday, July 4 at the Arizona Diamondbacks at 4:10 p.m.