The New York Mets lose in extra innings to the Milwaukee Brewers

The New York Mets were defeated by the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday night.  The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final score was 5-1 in 13 innings.  Jon Niese started and pitched well for the Mets.  The bullpen was good except for Carlos Torres who got hit hard. 

Niese pitched 7 2/3 innings giving up sixhits and a run with a walk and eight strikeouts.  Jeurys Familia pitched 1 1/3 innings with a strikeout, Josh Edgin pitched to one batter and retired him and Jennry Mejia pitched 2/3 of an inning with a strikeout.  Gonzalez Germen pitched a perfect inning with a couple of strikeouts, Torres lost his fourth game of the season pitching an inning and giving up seven hits and four runs with a walk and two strikeouts and Dana Eveland pitched an inning with a strikeout. 

Kyle Lohse pitched eight innings giving up four hits and an unearned run.  He struck out three.  Will Smith pitched an inning giving up a hit and a walk with a strikeout, Brandon Kintzler pitched two innings giving up a hit and four walks with two strikeouts and Zach Duke won his fourth game of the season pitching a perfect inning with a strikeout.  Francisco Rodriguez pitched an inning with a strikeout.   

Daniel Murphy had a hit and drew a walk, Bobby Abreu had a hit and an RBI and David Wright had a hit and drew a walk.  Lucas Duda drew a walk, Chris Young had a hit and drew a walk and Andrew Brown had a hit.  Curtis Granderson drew a walk, Anthony Recker had a hit and the Mets were 0-7 with runners in scoring position and left ten men on base.  Young and Wright each had a stolen base. 

Rickie Weeks had an RBI, Ryan Braun had a hit and Jonathan Lucroy had a hit and two RBI.  Carlos Gomez had two hits, Aramis Ramirez had three hits and an RBI and Khalil Davis had a hit and drew two walks.  Mark Reynolds had two hits and an RBI, Jean Segura had two hits and Lohse had a hit.  Ramirez hit a double and a homerun and Lucroy hit a homerun.  The Brewers were 1-9 with runners in scoring position and left 12 men on base.  Segura had a stolen base and Gomez and Segura each committed an error with Gomez having an outfield assist. 

Ramirez hit a solo homerun in the second to give the Brewers a 1-0 lead.  In the fourth Abreu hit a sacrifice fly to tie the game at one.  In the 13th Lucroy hit a two run homerun to give the Brewers a 3-1 lead, Reynolds hit an RBI single to make it 4-1 and Weeks was hit by a pitch to make it 5-1.  The Brewers won two out of the three in the series and the Mets will remain at home to take on the San Diego Padres on Friday night.