The New York Mets and Washington Nationals tie 4-4

The New York Mets and Washington Nationals played to a 4-4 tie on Thursday night in ten innings. The game was played at Space Coast Stadium in Viera, Florida. The Mets pitching was ok in the game and Jordany Valdespin, Colin Cowgill and Travis D’arnaud each had two hits. 
Rafael Montero pitched two innings giving up three hits and a run, Brandon Lyon pitched an inning giving up a run with a walk and a strikeout and Josh Edgin pitched two innings giving up two hits and an an unearned run. He struck out two, Elvin Ramirez pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run with two walks and a strikeout, Scott Rice pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up three hits and striking out two and Jeremy Hefner pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up a hit and a walk with three strikeouts.

Stephen Strasburg pitched three innings for the Nationals. He gave up three hits and a run with two walks and six strikeouts. Zach Duke pitched two innings giving up three hits and an unearned run with a couple of strikeouts, Yunesky Maya pitched two innings giving up three hits and two runs with two walks and three strikeouts and Patrick McCoy pitched a perfect inning. Ryan Mattheus pitched two perfect innings with three strikeouts.

Valdespin had two hits, Cowgill had two hits and Mike Baxter had an RBI and drew a walk. Matthew den Dekker had a hit, d’Arnaud had two hits and Landon Powell drew a walk. Omar Quintanilla had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk, Brian Bixler had a hit and an RBI and Brandon Hicks drew a walk. Quintanilla hit a double, the Mets were 2-9 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base. den Dekker had a stolen base and Valdespin was caught stealing. Bixler, Puello and Tovar all committed an error.

Denard Span had a hit and drew a walk, Eury Perez had a hit and Chris Snyder had a hit. Jayson Werth had an RBI, Corey Brown had a hit and Chris Marrero had a hit and drew a walk. Ian Desmond had a hit, Zach Walters had a hit and Danny Espinosa had a hit and drew a walk. Tyler Moore had two hits, Anthony Rendon had a hit and a couple of RBI. Span, Espinosa, Rendon and Marrero each hit a double. The Nationals were 3-18 with runners in scoring position and left 13 men on base. Span had two stolen bases and Desmond committed an error.

Baxter hit a sacrifice fly in the first to make it 1-0 Mets. Rendon hit an RBI double to tie the game at one in the second inning. In the third Werth had an RBI groundout to give the Nationals a 2-1 lead, the Mets tied the game in the fourth inning and then the Nationals took a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the fourth. Quintanilla hit an RBI double and Rendon grounded out scoring a run. Bixler hit an RBI single in the sixth and Matt Skole had an RBI walk. A wild pitch scored the fourth and final run of the game in the seventh for the Mets.

The Mets and Nationals are both 1-3 in the spring. The Mets will host the Detroit Tigers on Friday afternoon and Washington will play at Atlanta on Friday evening.