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| Mets SS Francisco Lindor (Photo Credits to SNY.TV) |
The Met offense was held scoreless for the first two innings until the top of the third after catcher Luis Torrens led off with a single and then CF Tyrone Taylor followed with a sacrifice bunt.
LF Brandon Nimmo then walked and SS Francisco Lindor followed with a single to load the bases.
Two batters later, 1B Pete Alonso drove in Torrens with a based loaded walk.
The offense did not do much for the next four innings, but then came alive in the top of the eighth.
Nimmo led off with a single and then Lindor and RF Juan Soto walked to load the bases.
Alonso followed with a strikeout, but then Vientos delivered one of the biggest hits of the season with a bases clearing double.
In the top of the ninth, Taylor led off with a double and Nimmo followed with a walk.
Lindor came up next and broke the game open with a three-run homer.
Soto followed with a solo homer.
RHP Kodai Senga made his return to the mound and worked his way out of runners on second and third with no outs by getting a strikeout, lineout and strikeout.
Senga worked out back-to-back walks in the bottom of the second and two singles in the bottom of the third, but managed to keep runs off the board.
He had a 1-2-3 bottom of the fourth and was then taken out.
His final line was four innings, four hits, two walks, no runs and four strikeouts.
He lowered his ERA to 1.39.
LHP Alex Castillo followed with a scoreless bottom of the fifth, and came back out for the bottom of the sixth and gave up game-tying double to 2B Nick Loftin.
RHP Huascar Brazoban followd in the bottom of the seventh and gave up a two-run homer to SS Bobby Witt Jr.
Brazoban picked up his fifth win of the season.
RHP Reed Garrett threw a scoreless bottom of the eighth.
RHP Chris Devenski closed it out with a scoreless bottom of the ninth.
The Mets next game is tomorrow afternoon, Saturday, July 12 at the Royals at 4:10 p.m.
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