The New York Mets were defeated by the
Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night. The game
took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final score was
12-7. Matt Harvey started for the Mets
and he didn’t pitch well. Lucas Duda and
Travis d’Arnaud each had two hits to lead the offense.
Harvey pitched five innings giving
up five hits and six runs with four walks and five strikeouts. Paul Sewald pitched 1/3 of an inning giving
up five hits and five runs with a walk and a strikeout and he lost his first
game of the season, Neil Ramirez pitched 2 2/3 innings giving up a hit and a
run with two strikeouts and Josh Smoker pitched an inning giving up two hits
and he struck out one.
Gerrit Cole started for the Pirates
pitching five innings giving up eight hits and seven runs with two walks and
six strikeouts. Cole won his third game
of the season. Wade LeBlanc pitched an
inning giving up a hit and he struck out one, Juan Nicasio pitched a perfect
inning with a strikeout and Daniel Hudson pitched an inning with two
walks. Felipe Rivero pitched a perfect
inning with a strikeout.
Michael Conforto had a hit and two
RBI, Jay Bruce had a hit and Neil Walker had a hit, an RBI and drew a
walk. Duda had two hits, three RBI and
drew a walk, Wilmer Flores had a hit and Curtis Granderson had a hit and drew a
walk. d’Arnaud had two hits and drew a
walk, Walker hit a triple and Duda hit two homeruns and Conforto hit a
homerun. The Mets were 0-3 with runners
in scoring position and left five men on base.
Adam Frazier had a hit and drew a
walk, Josh Harrison had three hits and two RBI and Gregory Polanco had a hit
and drew a walk. David Freese had an RBI
and drew a walk, Josh Bell had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk and Andrew
McCutchen had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.
Jordy Mercer had two hits, Elias Diaz had two hits and six RBI and Jose
Osuna had a hit. Diaz and Harrison each
hit a double and Bell, Diaz and Harrison each hit a homerun. The Pirates were 4-12 with runners in scoring
position and left seven men on base.
In the first Freese hit into a
force out and a run scored to make it 1-0 Pittsburgh. In the second Duda hit a two-run homerun to
give the Mets a 2-1 lead. In the fourth
Diaz hit a three-run double to make it 4-2 Pirates. In the fifth Conforto hit a two-run homerun
to tie the game at four. Walker hit an
RBI triple to give the Mets a 5-4 lead.
A wild pitch made it 6-4 and Duda hit a solo homerun pushing the lead to
7-4. In the sixth Bell hit a solo
homerun cutting the lead to 7-5. Diaz
hit a three-run homerun and it was 8-7 Pirates.
Harrison hit an RBI double to extend the Pirates lead to 9-7. Bell had an RBI walk to push it to 10-7. In the sixth McCutchen hit a sac fly making
it 11-7 Pirates and in the eighth Harrison hit a solo homerun to make it 12-7
and that would be the final score.
The two teams will play game two of
three on Saturday night.
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