Monday, June 3, 2024

Mets Hang On To Beat Nationals 8-7 Powered By Vientos

 

Mets 2B Jose Iglesias (Photo Credits to Geoff Burke-USA Today Sports)



The New York Mets beat the Washington Nationals 8-7 tonight at Nationals Park to snap their two-game losing streak and improved their record to 25-35.

After a scoreless top of the first, RF Starling Marte led off with a single and then stole second.

3B Mark Vientos followed with a walk and then Marte advanced to third on a wild pitch.

CF Harrison Bader then drove in Marte with a sacrifice fly.

In the top of the fourth, Vientos led off and continued his torrid stretch with a solo homer and two batters later, 2B Jose Iglesias singled.

Later in the inning, Iglesias stole second and then came around to score on a RBI single by SS Francisco Lindor.

In the top of the fifth, D.H. J.D. Martinez singled with one out and then Marte followed with a single.

Martinez and Marte advanced to second and third with a walk and then Vientos drew a walk to load the bases.

Bader then drove in the tying run with his second sacrifice fly of the night and Iglesias drove in the go-ahead with a RBI single.

Catcher Luis Torrens followed with a key two-run double.

In the top of the sixth, Martinez singled with two outs and then Marte followed with a single and Martinez was able to score after reliever RHP Jacob Barnes threw the ball away trying to throw Marte out at first base.

RHP Tylor Megill had a scoreless bottom of the first, but was let down his defense in the bottom of the second after Bader made a fielding error due to the ball coming out of his glove which allowed 3B Nick Senzel to advance to second.

Megill gave up a RBI single to the following hitter LF Jesse Winker.

Megill had a scoreless bottom of the third, but gave up three more runs in the bottom of the fourth on a fielder's choice and a two-run homer by 1B Joey Gallo.

Megill gave up another run in the bottom of the fifth on a based loaded walk to Winker and was taken out after the inning.

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

He picked up his first win.

RHP Adrian Houser followed and threw two scoreless innings in the bottom of the sixth and seventh.

Houser came back out for the bottom of the eighth and ran into trouble and was taken out with one out in the inning.

RHP Drew Smith came on and got the last two outs in the eighth.

RHP Adam Ottavino came on in the bottom of the ninth and got into immediate trouble after he gave up a lead-off walk and hit batsman and after a flyout, gave up a RBI single to Winker.

Ottavino then gave up a single to SS Ildemaro Vargas which loaded the bases and was taken out.

LHP Jake Diekmann came on and gave up a sacrifice fly to pinch-hitter Joey Menesis and struck out the next hitter catcher Drew Millas for the final out and picked up his second save of the season.

The Mets next game is tomorrow night, Tuesday, June 4 at the Nationals at 6:45 p.m. 


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