Mets Crush Rangers 14-2 With Offensive Explosion

 

Mets LF Brandon Nimmo (Photo Credits to Jim Cowsert-USA Today Sports)

The New York Mets beat the Texas Rangers 14-2 tonight at Globe Life Stadium for their sixth consecutive win and improved their record to 34-37.

The Met offense broke out with 22 hits and seven of the nine players had two or more hits and five of the nine players three or more hits.

In the top of the first, SS Francisco Lindor led off with a single and two batters later, D.H. J.D. Martinez singled.

1B Pete Alonso drove in the first run of the game with a RBI single.

In the top of the second, 3B Mark Vientos led off with a single and two batters later, 2B Jeff McNeil singled.

Lindor followed with a RBI single and then LF Brandon Nimmo followed with a RBI single.

Two batters later, Alonso drove in another run on a RBI single and then RF D.J. Stewart broke the game open with a three-run homer.

In the top of the fourth, Lindor led off with a single and then Nimmo followed with a two-run homer.

In the top of the fifth, catcher Francisco Alvarez singled with one out and then McNeil walked.

Lindor followed with a RBI double and then Nimmo hit a RBI single.

In the top of the sixth, Stewart singled with one out and two batters later, Vientos singled.

Alvarez followed with a RBI single of his own.

In the top of the eighth, CF Tyrone Taylor was hit by a pitch with one out and then Vientos followed with a double.

Alvarez then drove in his second RBI of the game with a RBI single and McNeil grounded into a fielder's choice which brought home a run.

LHP David Peterson had two scoreless innings and then gave up a two-run homer to DH Robbie Grossman in the bottom of the third.

Peterson settled down after that and had scoreless innings in the bottom of the fourth, fifth and sixth and was then taken out.

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

He picked up his third win and lowered his ERA to 3.97.

RHP Adam Ottavino followed with two scoreless innings in the bottom of the seventh and eighth.

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

The Mets next game is tomorrow night, Tuesday, June 18 at the Rangers at 8:05 p.m. ET.