The New York Mets fall to the Chicago Cubs

The New York Mets were defeated by the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday night.  The game took place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois and the final score was 8-3.  Robert Gsellman started for the Mets and he pitched just ok.  Asdrubal Cabrera had three hits to lead the offense. 

Gsellman pitched four innings giving up four innings giving up five hits and four runs with five walks and four strikeouts.  Gsellman lost his seventh game of the season.  Tommy Milone pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with a walk, Jacob Rhame pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run and Josh Smoker pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run with a strikeout and Chris Flexen pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with two walks and two strikeouts. 

Carlos Quintana won his 10^th game of the season pitching seven innings and giving up six hits and two runs with a walk and seven strikeouts.  Carl Edwards Jr. pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout, Justin Wilson pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a run with two walks and a strikeout and Pedro Strop pitched to two batters and retired them both.

Jose Reyes had a hit and drew a walk, Nori Aoki had an RBI and Cabrera had three hits.  Travis d’Arnaud had an RBI, Juan Lagares had a hit and drew a walk and Amed Rosario had two hits.  Travis Taijeron had an RBI, Matt Reynolds drew a walk and Cabrera and Lagares each hit a double.  The Mets were 2-10 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base.  Reyes was picked off. 

Ben Zobrist had two hits, an RBI and drew two walks, Kris Bryant had a hit, four RBI and drew a walk and Anthony Rizzo had a hit.  Willson Contreras drew three walks, Ian Happ had a hit and an RBI and Kyle Schwarber had three hits, an RBI and drew a walk.  Jayson Heyward had a hit, Javier Baez had a hit and drew a walk and Quintana had an RBI.  Albert Almora Jr. had a hit, Zobrist and Baez each hit a double and Bryant, Schwarber and Happ each hit a homerun.  The Cubs were 2-11 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base.  Zobrist was caught stealing and Contreras was caught stealing also.  Quintana had a pickoff. 

In the fourth Taijeron hit an RBI ground out to give the Mets a 1-0 lead.  In the bottom of the fourth Quintana hit a sac bunt and a run scored to tie the game at one.  Bryant hit a three-run homerun to give the Cubs a 4-1 lead.  In the fifth d’Arnaud hit a sac fly to cut the lead to 4-2.  In the bottom of the fifth Schwarber hit a solo homerun pushing the lead to 5-2.  In the sixth Zobrist hit an RBI single to make it a 6-2 game.  In the seventh Happ hit a solo homerun to extend the lead to 7-2 lead.  In the eighth Bryant hit a sac fly to make it 8-2 and in the ninth Aoki hit an RBI ground out to cut the lead to 8-3 and that was the final score.