The New York Mets fight back but lose to the Oakland A's

The New York Mets were defeated by the Oakland A's on Wednesday night.  The game took place at Citi Field in Queens, New York and the final score was 8-5 A's.  Zach Wheeler started and didn't pitch well at all, the bullpen was good.  Curtis Granderson had three hits, Campbell and Tejada each had two hits. 

Wheeler had the shortest outing of his short career.  Wheeler pitched two innings giving up six hits and six runs with two walks and four strikeouts.  Dana Eveland pitched three innings giving up a hit, a run, a walk and three strikeouts, Gonzalez Germen pitched two innings giving up three hits and a run with a walk and a strikeout and Josh Edgin pitched a perfect inning striking out one.  Jeurys Familia pitched an inning giving up a hit and striking out one. 

Brad Mills won his first game of the season pitching 6 1/3 innings giving up nine hits and three runs.  He didn't walk a batter and struck out four.  Dan Otero pitched to two batters and retired them both, Luke Gregorson pitched an inning giving up two hits and two runs striking out one and Sean Doolittle saved his 11th game of the season with a perfect inning.  He struck out the side

David Wright had a hit, Campbell had two hits and Granderson had three hits.  Chris Young had a hit and two RBI, Travis d'Arnaud had a hit and Ruben Tejada had two hits.   Lucas Duda had a hit and three RBI, Granderson hit a double, Duda and C. Young hit a homerun.  The Mets were 3-7 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base. 

Coco Crisp had three hits and two RBI, John Jaso had two hits and drew a walk and Yoenis Cespedes had a hit, three RBI and drew a walk.  Brandon Moss had a hit and two RBI, Josh Donaldson had a hit and drew a walk and Josh Reddick had a hit and drew a walk.  Alberto Callaspo had two hits, Cespedes hit a double and Moss and Crisp each hit a homerun and the A's were 2-7 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base.  Jaso had a stolen base. 

In the first Cespedes hit a two run homerun giving the A's a 2-0 lead.  In the second Crisp hit an RBI single and Cespedes hit a three run double to give the A's a 6-0 lead.  Crisp hit a solo homerun in the fourth to give the A's a 7-0 lead.  Mills grounded into a double play in the sixth and another run scored to push the A's lead to 8-0.  Duda hit a three run homerun in the seventh to make it a 8-3 game.  C. Young hit a two run homerun in the eighth to cut the lead to 8-5.  That would be the final score and the two teams split the brief two game series.  The Mets will begin a four game series in Pittsburgh against the Pirates on Thursday night.