Mets Beat Diamondbacks 7-4 And Maurico Hits First Homer

Mets 2B Ronny Mauricio (Photo Credits to John Jones-USA Today Sports)

The New York Mets beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-4 tonight at Citi Field and improved their record to 66-78.

The Met offense was held scoreless for the first two innings, but in the bottom of the third CF Brandon Nimmo tripled and then SS Francisco Lindor followed with a sacrifice fly.

In the bottom of the fourth, RF DJ Stewart led off with a single and then 2B Ronny Mauricio came up and hit a mammoth 440 foot homer in the second deck in right field for his first career homer.

In the bottom of the fifth, Nimmo led off with a double and then Lindor followed with a RBI single.

Two batters later, 1B Pete Alonso came up and broke the game open with a two-run homer, his 44th homer of the season.

In the bottom of the eighth, catcher Francisco Alvarez capped off the scoring with a solo homer for his 23th homer of the season.

RHP Jose Butto had a strong start allowing one run on five hits in five innings.

Butto gave up three walks with a career-high seven strikeouts.

He picked up his first win.

RHP Grant Hartwig came in next and gave up run in the top of the sixth.

RHP Phil Bickford followed and threw a scoreless top of the seventh.

RHP Sam Coonrod came on in the top of the eighth and had a difficult outing allowing two runs on two hits with two walks and recorded only one out and was taken out with the bases loaded.

RHP Adam Ottavino had to come in and got RF Corbin Caroll to ground into a double play to end the inning.

Ottavino was able to close it out with a 1-2-3 top of the ninth and picked up his 10th save.

The Mets next game is tomorrow night, Wednesday, September 13 at home against the Diamondbacks at 7:10 p.m.