Sunday, April 27, 2014

The New York Mets lose in extras to the Miami Marlins



The New York Mets were defeated by the Miami Marlins on Saturday night.  The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final score was 7-6 in ten innings.  Jenrry Mejia started for the Mets and wasn't very good, the bullpen was pretty good.  The Mets had only six hits and no one had more than one hit.  Bobby Abreu did hit his first homerun in years. 

Mejia pitched 5 2/3 innings giving up eight hits and six runs.  He had one walk and six strikeouts.  Carlos Torres pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit, Jeurys Familia pitched an inning giving up a walk and a strikeout and Scott Rice pitched 2/3 of an inning retiring both batters.  Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up two walks and striking out two and Kyle Farnsworth took the loss pitching an ining and giving up a hit and a run with a strikeout. 

Kevin Slowey pitched four innings giving up five hits nad five runs with two walks and four strikeouts.  Brad Hand pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout, Dan Jennings pitched two innings giving up a hit and an unearned run with a walk and a strikeout and Mike Dunn earned his second win of the season.  He pitched two perfect innings with four strikeouts and Steve Cishek saved his fifth game of the season.  He pitched an inning walking one and striking out one. 

Eric Young Jr. had a hit, Curtis Granderson drew a walk and David Wright had an RBI and drew a walk.  Daniel Murphy had a hit and drew a walk, Abreu had a hit and two RBI and Lucas Duda had a hit and two RBI.  Travis d'Arnaud had a hit and drew a walk, Omar Quintanilla had a hit and d'Arnaud hit a double.  Abreu hit a homerun and the Mets were 2-6 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base.  Young Jr. had a stolen base. 

Marcell Ozuna had a hit and drew two walks, Giancarlo Stanton had a hit and two RBI and Casey McGehee had three hits.  Jarrod Saltalamacchia had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Garrett Jones had a hit.  Derek Dietrich had a hit and an RBI, Adeiny Hechavarria  had a hit and an RBI and Reed Johnson had a hit and two RBI.  Donovan Solano drew a walk, Ozuna and Johnson hit a double and Stanton and Saltalamacchia hit a homerun.  The Marlins were 4-11 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.  Saltalamacchia and Hechavarria each committed an error and Saltalamacchia had a passed ball. 

Wright hit a sacrifice fly in the first to give the Mets a 1-0 lead.  Abreu hit a two run homerun to extend the lead to 3-0.  In the second Dietrich hit an RBI single to cut the lead to 3-1.  In the third Duda hit a two run single to give the Mets a 5-1 lead.  In the sixth Stanton hit a two run homerun to cut the lead to 5-3.  Hechavarria hit an RBI single to get the Marlins within a run at 5-4.  Johnson hit a two run double in the sixth to give the Marlins a 6-5 lead.  The Mets tied the game in the sixth on a Quintanilla RBI single.  In the tenth Saltalamacchia hit a solo homerun to give the Marlins a 7-6 lead and that was the final score. 

The two teams will play the final game of their series on Sunday afternoon.   

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