The New York Mets were defeated by
the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night.
The game took place at Kaufmann Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri and the
final score was 7-1 Royals. Jacob deGrom
started for the Mets and pitched ok but not great. Lucas Duda had the only two hits for the
Mets.
deGrom pitched five innings giving
up six hits and four runs with three walks and two strikeouts. deGrom took the loss in the game, Hansel
Robles pitched a perfect inning, Jon Niese pitched an inning giving up three hits
and three runs with a walk and a strikeout and Addison Reed pitched 1/3 of an
inning giving up a hit. Sean Gilmartin
pitched 2/3 of an inning.
Johnny Cueto pitched nine innings
giving up two hits and a run with three walks and four strikeouts. Cueto won the game.
Curtis Granderson drew a walk,
Daniel Murphy drew two walks and Duda had two hits and an RBI. The Mets were 1-4 with runners in scoring
position and left three men on base. Duda
committed an error.
Alcides Escobar had two hits and two
RBI, Lorenzo Cain drew a walk and Eric Hosmer had two hits and two RBI. Kendrys Morales had a hit, Mike Moustakas had
two hits, an RBI and drew a walk and Salvador Perez had a hit. Alex Gordon had a hit, an RBI and drew two
walks. Alex Rios had a hit and Paulo
Orlando had an RBI. Perez and Gordon
each hit a double and Escobar hit a triple.
The Royals were 5-12 with runners in scoring position and left eight men
on base.
In the fourth Duda hit an RBI
single giving the Mets a 1-0 lead. In
the fifth Escobar hit an RBI single to tie the game at one. Hosmer hit a two run single to make it 3-1
Royals. Moustakas hit an RBI single and
it was 4-1 Royals. In the eighth Gordon
hit an RBI double to extend the lead to 5-1, Orlando hit a sac fly to make it
6-1 and Escobar hit an RBI triple to make it 7-1. The Royals took a 2-0 lead in the series and
it will shift back to New York now for
games 3-5.
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