New York Mets defeat the Miami Marlins

The New York Mets defeated the Miami Marlins on Thursday afternoon.  The game took place at First Data Field in Port St. Lucie and the final score was 11-6.  Robert Gsellman started and pitched well for the Mets and Addison Reed and Jeurys Familia also pitched well.  Phillip Evans led the offense with a couple of hits and five RBI. 

Gsellman pitched two innings giving up a hit and a walk with two strikeouts.  Reed pitched a perfect inning, Familia earned the win pitching an inning and giving up a hit and he struck out two.  Tom Gorzelanny pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run, Erik Goeddel pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out two and David Roseboom pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up six hits and five runs.  Hansel Robles pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up three hits and he struck out three. 

Evans had two hits and five RBI, Asdrubal Cabrera drew a walk and Yoenis Cespedes had a hit and an RBI.  Curtis Granderson had a hit, Brandon Nimmo had three hits and Neil Walker had two hits and two RBI.  Gavin Cecchini had a hit, Jay Bruce drew a walk and Travis Taijeron had a hit.  Wilmer Flores had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk, Dominic Smith drew a walk and Travis d’Arnaud had two hits.  Tomas Nido had a hit, Matt Reynolds had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Reynolds hit a double.  Cespedes, Walker and Evans each hit a homerun and the Mets were 4-10 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base.  Cespedes had an outfield assist. 

In the fourth Cespedes hit a solo homerun to give the Mets a 1-0 lead.  Walker hit a two-run homerun to push the lead to 3-0.  A wild pitch made it a 4-0 game still in the fourth inning.  In the fifth Derek Dietrich hit an RBI single to cut the lead to 4-1.  In the fifth Flores hit an RBI single to make it a 5-1 game and then Evans hit a grand slam to extend the lead to 9-1.  In the seventh Tomas Telis hit an RBI single to cut the lead to 9-2.  Yefri Perez hit an RBI double to make it a 9-3 game.  In the seventh Reynolds hit an RBI double to make it 10-3 and then Evans  hit an RBI single to push it to 11-3.  In the eighth J.T. Riddle hit into a force out and it was 11-4 and then Isaac Galloway hit an RBI single to cut it to 11-5 and Telis hit an RBI single to make it 11-6 which would be the final score.