The New York Mets defeated the
Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday afternoon.
The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final
score was 5-0. Bartolo Colon started and
pitched great. David Wright had a couple of hits and RBI and
Lucas Duda had a couple of RBI.
Colon pitched 7 1/3 innings giving
up five hits and no runs with a walk and nine strikeouts. Jeurys Familia earned his first save of the
season pitching 1 2/3 innings and giving up a hit.
Charlie Morton lost his seventh
game of the season. He pitched 5 1/3
innings giving up four hits and three runs with two of them being earned. He walked four and struck out four. Jared Huges pitched 2/3 of an inning walking
one and Bryan Morris pitched two innings giving up two hits and two runs with
three walks and two strikeouts.
Juan Lagares had a hit, Daniel
Murphy had a hit and drew a walk and Wright had two hits, two RBI and drew a
walk. Curtis Granderson drew a walk,
Chris Young drew a walk and Duda had a hit, two RBI and drew two walks. Ruben Tejada drew a walk, Juan Centeno drew a
walk and Familia had a hit. Wright and
Duda each hit a homerun and the Mets were 2-11 with runners in scoring position
and left eight men on base. Wright had a
stolen base and committed an error.
Lagares was caught stealing.
Josh Harrison had a hit, Neil
Walker had a hit and Andrew McCutchen had two hits. Pedro Alvarez had two hits, Chris Stewart
drew a walk and Alvarez hit a double.
The Pirates were 0-7 with runners in scoring position and left eight men
on base. Alvarez and Mercer each
committed an error.
The Mets took a 1-0 lead on a wild
pitch in the second inning. Wright hit
an RBI single in the third and hit a solo homerun in the sixth to put the Mets
up 3-0. Duda hit a two run homerun in
the eighth to give the Mets a 5-0 lead and that was the final score. The Mets won two out of three in the
series. The Mets will begin a four game series in Philadelphia against the Phillies on Thursday night.
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