The New York Mets pull off a ninth inning rally to defeat the Milwaukee Brewers

The New York Mets defeated the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night.  The game took place at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the final score was 3-2.  Zach Wheeler started for the Mets and pitched well and the bullpen was good.  Lucas Duda hit a two run homerun and David Wright had a big RBI hit in the ninth inning. 

Wheeler pitched 6 2/3 innings giving up three hits and two runs with one of them being earned.  He walked two and struck out nine.  Vic Black pitched to one batter and retired him, Carlos Torres won his fifth game of the season pitching an inning and giving up a hit and striking out one and Jennry Mejia pitched an inning walking one and striking out the side.  Mejia saved his 14th game of the season. 

Yovani Gallardo pitched 7 2/3 innings giving up four hits and no runs with eight strikeouts.  Will Smith pitched to one batter and struck him out and Francisco Rodriguez blew his fourth save of the season and lost his fourth game.  He pitched an inning giving up four hits and three runs and struck out two. 

Daniel Murphy had three hits, Wright had two hits and an RBI and Duda had a hit and two RBI.  Travis d'Arnaud had a hit, Eric Campbell had a hit and Murphy hit a double.  Duda hit a homerun and the Mets were 1-4 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base.  Murphy committed two errors. 

Carlos Gomez had two hits and an RBI, Rickie Weeks had a hit and drew a walk and Aramis Ramirez had an RBI.  Lyle Overbay had a hit and drew a walk, Matthew LuCroy drew a walk and Weeks hit a double.  Gomez hit a homerun and the Brewers were 0-6 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base. 

Ramirez grounded into a force out and a runs scored in the sixth.  The Brewers had a 1-0 lead and in the seventh Gomez hit a solo homerun to give them a 2-0 lead.  In the ninth Wright hit an RBI single to cut the lead to 2-1 and Duda hit a two run homerun to give the Mets a 3-2 lead which would be the final score.  The two teams will play game two of three of their four game series on Saturday night.