New York Mets are slugged by the Milwaukee Brewers

The New York Mets lost to the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night.  The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final score was 7-1.  Jacob deGrom started for the Mets and he pitched terrible.  The bullpen was good and the offense was led by Curtis Granderson with two hits. 

deGrom pitched four innings giving up eight hits and seven runs with five walks and six strikeouts.  deGrom lost his second game of the season.  Josh Edgin pitched three innings giving up two hits and he struck out three and Neil Ramirez pitched two innings giving up three walks and he struck out three. 

Junior Guerra pitched six innings giving up four hits and no runs.  He walked three and struck out four and won his first game of the season.  Jared Huges pitched an inning giving up a hit and a walk with a strikeout, Oliver Drake pitched an inning with a strikeout and Rob Scahill pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run with a strikeout. 

Michael Conforto had a hit and an RBI, Asdrubal Cabrera had a hit and drew a walk and Jay Bruce drew two walks.  Granderson had two hits and drew a walk, Wilmer Flores had a hit and Rene Rivera had a hit.  Juan Lagares had a hit, R. Rivera and Conforto each hit a double and the Mets were 0-9 with runners in scoring position and left 10 men on base. 

Eric Sogard had a hit and drew three walks, Eric Thames had two hits, two RBI and drew two walks and Jesus Aguilar had a hit and an RBI.  Travis Shaw had two hits and drew a walk, Hernan Perez had a hit and two RBI and Manny Pina had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Keon Broxton had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk, Orlando Arcia had a hit and Shaw, Thames, Aguilar and Arcia each hit a double.  Thames and Broxton each hit a homerun.  The Brewers were 2-12 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base.  Shaw had a stolen base. 

In the first Thames hit a two-run homerun and it was 2-0 Brewers.  In the second Broxton hit a solo homerun to push the lead to 3-0.  In the fourth Aguilar hit an RBI double making it a 4-0 game.  Perez hit a two-run single and the lead was 6-0.  Pina hit an RBI ground out and it was 7-0 and in the ninth Conforto hit an RBI double to cut the lead to 7-1 and that was the final score. 

The two teams will play the fourth and final game of their series on Thursday afternoon.