The New York Mets fall to the San Francisco Giants

The New York Mets fall to the San Francisco Giants


The San Francisco Giants defeated the New York Mets on Tuesday night. The final score was 8-5 and the game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York. Zach Wheeler was just ok in probably his second to last start of the season. The bullpen was good and bad and Daniel Murphy and Josh Satin led the offense.

Wheeler pitched five innings giving up three hits and four runs with six walks and three strikeouts. Sean Henn lost his first game of the season pitching 1 1/3 innings giving up two hits and a run with a walk and a strikeout, Scott Atchison pitched 2/3 of an inning striking out one and Gonzalez Germen pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and two runs with a walk. Tim Byrdak pitched to one batter and retired him; Jeurys Familia pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up two hits and a run with two walks and a strikeout. David Aardsma pitched to two batters and struck them both out.

Eric Young Jr. had a hit and an RBI, Murphy had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk and Lucas Duda drew two walks. Wilmer Flores had a hit and an RBI, Mike Baxter drew a walk and Matthew den Dekker had a hit and an RBI. Anthony Recker had a hit, Ruben Tejada had a hit and drew a walk and Satin had two hits. Tejada, Flores and Murphy each hit a double and the Mets were 3-11 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base. Young had a stolen base and Lagares committed an error.

Yusmeiro Petit pitched six innings giving up seven hits and four runs. He walked three and struck out one and won his fourth game of the season. Jean Machi pitched 2/3 of an inning striking out one, Javier Lopez faced one batter and retired him and Santiago Casilla pitched an inning giving up a walk and striking out two. Sandy Rosario pitched giving up a walk and a run without recording an out and Sergio Romo pitched an inning giving up two hits.

Angel Pagan had three hits, three RBI and drew two walks, Gregor Blanco had a hit and an RBI and Brandon Belt had two hits. Buster Posey had an RBI and drew a walk, Hunter Pence had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Pablo Sandoval drew two walks. Brandon Crawford had a hit and drew two walks, Tony Abreu had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Petit had an RBI and drew a walk. Abreu hit a double, Pagan hit a triple and a homerun and the Giants were 5-16 with runners in scoring position and left ten men on base. Peguero had a stolen base, Posey and Crawford committed an error each and Pagan had an outfield assist.

Petit had an RBI walk, Pagan an RBI single and Blanco an RBI groundout in the second inning to give the Giants a 3-0 lead. Young hit an RBI groundout in the third to make it 3-1 Giants. In the fourth Flores hit an RBI double and den Dekker hit a two run single to make it a 4-3 Mets lead. Posey hit an RBI groundout in the fifth to tie the game at four and in the seventh Pagan hit a solo homerun giving the Giants a 5-4 lead. Abreu hit an RBI double and Pagan an RBI triple in the eighth to extend the lead to 7-4 Giants and Pence hit an RBI single in the ninth making it 8-4. Murphy hit an RBI single in the ninth to make it 8-5 and that was the final score.

The Mets record dropped to 67-83 and the Giants record improved to 70-81. The two teams will play game two of three on Wednesday night.