The New York Mets defeated the
Washington Nationals on Monday evening.
The game took place at Nationals Park in Washington D.C. and the final
score was 3-1. Bartolo Colon started and
pitched well and the bullpen was good also.
Lucas Duda led the offense with a couple of hits.
Colon pitched six innings giving up
three hits and a run with a walk and eight strikeouts. Colon earned his first win of the
season. Carlos Torres pitched a perfect
inning, Jeurys Familia pitched a perfect inning with a couple of strikeouts and
Jerry Blevins pitched 1/3 of an inning retiring the only batter that he
faced. Buddy Carlyle earned his first
save of the season pitching 2/3 of an inning and retiring both batters that he
faced.
Max Scherzer pitched 7 2/3 innings
giving up four htis and three runs with none of them earned. He walked two and struck out eight and took
his first loss of the season. Xavier
Cedeno retired the only batter that he faced, Aaron Barrett pitched 2/3 of an
inning giving up a hit and a walk with a strikeout and Matt Thornton pitched to
one batter and retired him.
Curtis Granderson drew two walks,
Duda had two hits and two RBI and Michael Cuddyer had a hit. Travis d'Arnaud had two hits and an RBI, John
Mayberry Jr. drew a walk and d'Arnaud hit a triple. The Mets were 1-5 with runners in scoring
position and left seven men on base.
Daniel Murphy committed an error.
Michael Taylor had a hit, Bryce
Harper had two hits and an RBI and Ryan Zimmerman drew a walk. Harper hit a homerun and the Nationals were
0-4 with runners in scoring position and left four men on base. Desmond committed two errors.
In the fourth Harper hit a solo
homerun to give the Nationals a 1-0 lead.
In the sixth Duda hit a two run single to give the Mets a 2-1 lead. In the seventh d'Arnaud hit an RBI triple to
make it 3-1 Mets and that was the final score.
The Mets and Nationals will have the day off on Tuesday and then resume
their series on Wednesday night. Jacob
deGrom will face Jordan Zimmerman.
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