New York Mets defeat the Cincinnati Reds

The New York Mets defeated the Cincinnati Reds on Friday night.  The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final score was 5-1.  Seth Lugo started for the Mets and he pitched well and the bullpen pitched well.  Jose Reyes and Travis Taijeron each had two hits to lead the offense. 

Lugo pitched six innings giving up four hits and no runs with a walk and four strikeouts.  Lugo won his sixth game of the season.  Tommy Milone pitched a perfect inning, Paul Sewald pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and he struck out one, Jerry Blevins pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up four hits and a run with two strikeouts and AJ Ramos pitched to two batters and retired them both and earned his 27^th save of the season. 

Amir Garrett pitched five innings giving up five hits and four runs with two walks and five strikeouts.  Garrett lost his seventh game of the season.  Cody Reed pitched an inning giving up two hits and an unearned run with a walk and a strikeout, Ariel Hernandez pitched an inning with a strikeout and Luke Farrell pitched an inning giving up a hit. 

Reyes had two hits and three RBI, Brandon Nimmo had a hit and drew a walk and Travis d’Arnaud had a hit.  Taijeron had two hits and an RBI, Dominic Smith had a hit and drew a walk and Gavin Cecchini drew a walk.  Lugo had a hit, d’Arnaud and Taijeron each hit a double and Taijeron hit a homerun.  Reyes hit two homeruns and the Mets were 1-4 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base.  Cecchini was caught stealing. 

Phillip Ervin had a hit, Jose Peraza had a hit and Joey Votto had two hits and drew a walk.  Scooter Gennett had two hits, Eugenio Suarez had a hit and Tucker Barnhart had two hits.  Zack Cozart had an RBI and the Reds were 2-9 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base.  Gennett committed an error. 

In the second Taijeron hit a solo homerun to give the Mets a 1-0 lead.  In the third Reyes hit a solo homerun to push the lead to 2-0.  In the fifth Reyes hit a two-run homerun to extend the lead to 4-0.  In the sixth Reynolds reached on a force attempt error and the score was 5-0 Mets.  In the ninth Cozart hit a sac fly to cut the lead to 5-1 and that would be the final score. 

The two teams will play game two of three on Saturday.