New York Mets lose to the Washington Nationals

The New York Mets were defeated by the Washington Nationals on Saturday afternoon.  The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final score was 7-4.  Seth Lugo started for the Mets and he pitched ok.  Yoenis Cespedes had four hits and Jay Bruce had three hits to lead the offense. 

Lugo pitched 6 2/3 innings giving up seven hits and four runs with three of them being earned.  He walked two and struck out five and lost his first game of the season.  Jerry Blevins pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a run, Paul Sewald pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with two strikeouts and Addison Reed pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run with a walk. 

Stephen Strasburg pitched 5 1/3 innings giving up six hits and two runs with two walks and five strikeouts and he won his eighth game of the season.  Blake Treinen pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and he struck out one, Matt Grace pitched to one batter and retired him and Joe Blanton pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up two hits and two runs.  Enny Romero pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up three hits and he struck out one and earned his second save of the season. 

Michael Conforto had a hit, Cespedes had four hits and an RBI and Bruce had three hits.  Wilmer Flores had a hit and an RBI, Lucas Duda drew a walk and Travis d’Arnaud had a hit.  Jose Reyes had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk.  Cespedes hit a homerun and the Mets were 1-9 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.  Flores committed an error. 

Trea Turner had two hits and an RBI, Anthony Rendon had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk and Bryce Harper had a hit.  Daniel Murphy had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk, Adam Lind had a hit and two RBI and Jose Lobaton had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk.  Strasburg had a hit, Murphy and Rendon hit a double.  Turner, Lobaton and Lind each hit a homerun and the Nationals were 0-5 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.  Turner was caught stealing and Treinen committed an error. 

In the first Turner hit a solo homerun to give the Nats a 1-0 lead.  In the second Lobaton hit a solo homerun to push the lead to 2-0.  Murphy hit an RBI double in the third to extend the lead to 3-0.  Turner reached on a throwing error and a run scored to make it 4-0 in the fourth.  Flores hit into a double play and a run scored in the bottom of the fourth to cut the lead to 4-1.  In the bottom of the sixth Flores hit a sac fly to cut the lead to 4-2.  Lind hit a two-run homerun in the eighth to extend the lead to 6-2 and in the bottom of the eighth Cespedes hit a solo homerun to cut the lead to 6-3.  Reyes hit an RBI single and it was 6-4.  In the ninth Rendon hit an RBI double to make it 7-4 and that was the final score.  The two teams will play the fourth and final game of the series on Sunday with the Mets trying to even the series.