Mets Sweep Phillies 6-0 After Nolan McLean Dominates Once Again With Eight Scoreless Innings

 

Mets RHP Nolan McLean (Photo Credits to Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images)

The New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-0 at Citi Field tonight to complete the three-game sweep and improved their record to 72-61.

The Met offense was held scoreless for the first two innings and then came alive in the bottom of the third against RHP Taijuan Walker.

2B Brett Baty led off with a single and then catcher Hayden Senger followed with a bunt single.

SS Francisco Lindor then hit a RBI single and RF Juan Soto also hit a RBI single.

Soto then stole second and 1B Pete Alonso followed with a RBI single.

After a scoreless bottom of the fourth, Alonso walked with two outs in the bottom of the fifth and then LF Brandon Nimmo followed with a single.

3B Mark Vientos then hit a RBI single.

In the bottom of the seventh, Nimmo singled with two outs and then Vientos followed with a two-run homer.

RHP Nolan McLean made his third career start and was in complete command all night.

McLean had a 1-2-3 top of the first and faced the minimum through the first three innings.

He continued to cruise and still faced the minimum through five innings.

At one point, McLean retired 15 consecutive hitters in a row until he gave up a two-out  single to 1B Bryce Harper in the top of the seventh and then retired J.T. Realmuto on a pop-up to end the inning.

McLean came back out for the top of the eighth and got into his only jam of the night allowing back-to-back singles to 3B Alec Bohm and LF Max Kepler to start the inning.

McLean was able to settle down and he got shallow fly balls to Soto and Nimmo who made strong throws home to prevent the run from scoring and then retired CF Harrison Bader on a comebacker back to the mound to end the inning and was taken out.

McLean's final line was 8.0 innings, four hits,  0 runs, 0 walks and six strikeouts.

He had all of his pitches working and mixed them all in well especially his fastball. sweeper and curveball.

McLean picked up his third consecutive win to start his Met career and lowered his ERA to 0.89.

He is the first Mets starter to win his first three starts.

LHP Brooks Raley followed and closed it out with a scoreless top of the ninth.

The Mets next game is tomorrow night, Thursday, August 28 at home against the Miami Marlins at 7:10 p.m.