The New York Mets defeat the Texas Rangers

The New York Mets defeated the Texas Rangers on Friday night.  The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final score was 6-5.   Jon Niese didn't last long as he left with an injury, the bullpen was pretty good.  Eric Campbell led the offense with three hits. 

Niese pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up two hits and a run.  Carlos Torres pitched 4 2/3 innings giving up five hits and two runs with a walk and he struck out four.  Vic Black pitched an inning giving up two hits and a walk with a strikeout, Jeurys Familia pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up two hits and an unearned run with two walks and a strikeout and Jennry Mejia won his fifth game of the season pitching 1 1/3 innings and giving up a hit and an unearned run with a walk. 

Yu Darvish pitched five innings giving up four runs and two walks with six strikeouts.  Neftali Feliz pitched two innings with two walks and two strikeouts, Aaron Poreda pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a run, a walk and a strikeout and he lost his first game of the season.  Jason Frasor pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and a run with a walk and a strikeout. 

Curtis Granderson had a hit, Bobby Abreu had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Lucas Duda had a hit, two RBI and drew two walks.  Campbell had three hits, an RBI and drew a walk, Travis d'Arnaud had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk. Chris Young drew a walk, Granderson, Campbell and d'Arnaud each hit a double and Duda hit a homerun.  The Mets were 2-10 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.  Daniel Murphy committed an error and d'Arnaud had a passed ball.  Black had a pickoff. 

Shin-Soo Choo had a hit, an RBI and drew two walks, Elvis Andrus had three hits and Alex Rios had a hit and an RBI.  Adrian Beltre had two hits and an RBI, Chris Gimenez had an RBI and Leonys Martin drew a walk.  Rougned Odor had a hit and drew a walk, Adam Rosales had two hits and an RBI and Daniel Robertson had a hit.  Darvish had a hit, Carlos Pena drew a walk and Darvish hit a double.  Choo and Beltre each hit a homerun and the Rangers were 3-13 with runners in scoring position and left 12 men on base.  Andrus had a stolen base and Odor was caught stealing. 

Choo hit a solo homerun in the first to give Texas a 1-0 lead.  Abreu hit an RBI single and Duda a two run homerun in the bottom of the first to give them a 3-1 lead.  Rios hit an RBI single in the third to make it a 3-2 game.  Campbell hit an RBI double in the fourth to give the Mets a 4-2 lead.  Beltre hit a solo homerun in the fifth to cut the lead to 4-3.  Gimenez hit an RBI groundout in the seventh to tie the game at four.  d'Arnaud hit an RBI double in the eighth to give the Mets a 6-4 lead.  Rosales hit an RBI single in the ninth to make it 6-5 and that was the final score.  The two teams will play game two on Saturday night.