New York Mets lose to the Minnesota Twins in slugfest

The New York Mets were defeated by the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night.  The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final score was 14-8.  Jacob deGrom started for the Mets and he didn’t pitch well.  Amed Rosario led the offense with three hits and three other guys had two hits each. 

deGrom pitched four innings giving up eight hits and six runs with a walk and three strikeouts.  deGrom took his first loss of the season.  Seth Lugo pitched two innings giving up two hits and a run with a  strikeout, Luis Avilan pitched an inning giving up a hit and a walk with a strikeout and Robert Gsellman pitched an inning giving up two hits and three unearned runs with a strikeout.  Jason Vargas pitched an inning giving up four hits and four runs with a strikeout. 

Kyle Gibson pitched 4 2/3 innings giving up six hits and three runs with three walks and six strikeouts.  Trevor Hildenberger pitched to one batter and got him out and earned his second win of the season.  Trevor May pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout, Adalberto Mejia pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a run with a walk and a strikeout and Blake Parker pitched 2/3 of an inning.  Ryne Harper pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and Chase De Jong pitched an inning giving up three hits and four runs with three walks. 

Brandon Nimmo had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk, Pete Alonso had two hits and three RBI and Robinson Cano had a hit and drew a walk.  Michael Conforto had two hits, an RBI and drew two walks, J.D. Davis had a hit and drew two walks and Jeff McNeil had an RBI and drew a walk.  Rosario had three hits and an RBI, Travis d’Arnaud had an RBI and Conforto, Nimmo and Rosario each hit a double.  Conforto and Nimmo each hit a homerun and Alonso hit two homeruns.  The Mets were 2-14 with runners in scoring position and left 10 men on base.  Alonso committed an error. 

Max Kepler had a hit and an RBI, Jorge Polanco had three hits and two RBI and Willians Astudillo had a hit.  Eddie Rosario had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk, Mitch Garver had four hits and two RBI and Marwin Gonzalez drew a walk.  Jason Castro had a hit and an RBI, Jonathan Schoop had two hits and four RBI and Byron Buxton had two hits.  C.J. Cron had a hit, Rosario hit a double and Buxton hit two doubles.  Polanco hit a triple and Rosario, Polanco each hit a homerun.  Schoop and Garver each hit two homeruns.  The Twins were 4-7 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base.  Buxton had a stolen base and Kepler was caught stealing.  Garver had a passed ball. 

In the second Garver hit a solo homerun to give the Twins a 1-0 lead.  In the second Rosario hit an RBI double to tie the game at one.  In the third a wild pitch and a Rosario hit a two-run homerun giving the Twins a 4-1 lead.  Garver hit a solo homerun making it 5-1.  In the bottom of the third Nimmo hit a solo homerun, Conforto hit a solo homerun and the lead was cut to 5-3.  In the fourth Kepler hit an RBI single to push the lead to 6-3.  In the sixth Schoop hit a solo homerun extending the lead to 7-3.  In the seventh Alonso hit a solo homerun and it was 7-4.  In the eighth a fielding error pushed it to 8-4 and a Polanco two-run homerun made it 10-4.  In the ninth Castro hit an RBI single, Schoop hit a three-run homerun making it a 14-4 game.  In the bottom of the ninth Alonso hit a two-run homerun cutting the lead to 14-6.  McNeil had an RBI walk and d’Arnaud hit an RBI ground out and the final score was 14-8.