The New York Mets begin a big sereis with the Miami Marlins with a victory

The New York Mets defeated the Miami Marlins on Friday night.  The game took place at Marlins Park in Miami, Florida and the final score was 5-3.  Verrett started for the Mets and pitched pretty well as well as the bullpen.  Jose Reyes led the offense with three hits. 

Verrett pitched 5 1/3 innings giving up four hits and two runs with a walk and three strikeouts.  Hansel Robles won his fifth game of the season pitching 1 2/3 innings giving up a hit and he struck out one and won his fifth game of the season.  Addison Reed pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout and Jeurys Familia pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run and he saved his 34th game of the season. 

Adam Conley pitched six innings giving up six hits and two runs with a walk and three strikeouts.  David Phelps pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up two hits and a run with a walk, Kyle Barraclough pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a walk and he struck out two and Fernando Rodney pitched an inning giving up  a hit and two runs with two strikeouts. 

Reyes had three hits and an RBI, Curtis Granderson had a hit and Yoenis Cespedes had a hit and two RBI.  Wilmer Flores drew a walk, James Loney had a hit and two RBI and Asdrubal Cabrera had a hit.  Travis d'Arnaud had a hit, Lagares had a hit and drew a walk, Alejandro drew a walk. 

J.T. Realmuto had a hit, Miguel Rojas had two hits and Christian Yelich had two hits and two RBI.  Giancarlo Stanton had a hit, Marcell Ozuna drew a walk and Martin Prado had a hit and an RBI.  Adeiny Hechavarria had a hit.  Rojas, Realmuto and Yelich each hit a double and Yelich hit a homerun.  The Marlins had Rojas, Realmuto and Yelich each hit a doube.  Yelich hit a homerun and they were 1-10 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base.  Reyes had a stolen base and De Aza was caught stealing.  Reyes committed an error and Cespedes had an outfield assist. 

In the first Cespedes hit a sac fly to give the Mets a 1-0 lead.  In the fourth Reyes hit an RBI single to make it 2-0.  Yelich hit a solo homerun to tie the game at two in the sixth.  In the seventh Cespedes hit a sac fly to make it 3-2 and in the ninth Loney hit a two run homerun to make it 5-2.  Prado hit an RBI single in the bottom of the ninth to cut the lead to 5-3.