New York Mets outslug the Washington Nationals

 The New York Mets defeated the Washington Nationals on Wednesday night.  The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final score was 11-6.  Robert Gsellman started for the Mets and he didn’t pitch great.  The bullpen pitched pretty well and Brandon Nimmo and Pete Alonso each had three hits to lead the offense. 

Gsellman pitched two innings giving up four hits and three runs with a strikeout.  Chasen Shreve pitched an inning giving up a hit, Jeurys Familia won his first game of the season pitching two innings and giving up a hit and a walk with four strikeouts.  Justin Wilson pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with a strikeout, Dellin Betances pitched a perfect inning with three strikeouts and Drew Smith pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run with a strikeout.  Brad Brach pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with a strikeout. 

Anibal Sanchez pitched 2 2/3 innings giving up six hits and five runs with two walks and two strikeouts.  He took his third loss of the season.  Sam Freeman pitched 2/3 of an inning with a walk, Kyle Finnegan pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a walk and striking out two and Ryne Harper pitched an inning giving up four hits and five runs with a walk and two strikeouts.  Erick Fedde pitched two innings giving up three hits and a run with a strikeout. 

Nimmo had three hits and an RBI, Michael Conforto had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk and Alonso had three hits, three RBI and drew a walk.  Dom Smith had two hits, three RBI and drew a walk, Andres Gimenez had a hit and an RBI and Wilson Ramos had a hit and an RBI.  Luis Guillorme had a hit and drew two walks.  Alonso hit two doubles, Smith and Conforto each hit a double.  Nimmo, Alonso and Smith each hit a homerun and the Mets were 5-13 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base.  Gimenez and Guillorme each had a stolen base. 

Trea Turner had a hit, Adam Eaton had a hit and drew a walk and Starlin Castro had two hits and an RBI.  Juan Soto had three hits and four RBI, Howie Kendrick had two hits and Kurt Suzuki had a hit and an RBI.  Turner hit a double, Soto hit a homerun and the Nationals were 2-4 with runners in scoring position and left four men on base. 

In the first Soto hit a three-run homerun to give the Nationals a 3-0 lead.  In the bottom of the first Nimmo hit a solo homerun cutting the lead to 3-1.  Alonso hit an RBI double and Smith hit an RBI double to tie the game at three.  Gimenez hit an RBI single to give the Mets a 4-3 lead.  In the bottom of the third Ramos hit an RBI single to push the lead to 5-3.  In the sixth Soto hit a solo homerun cutting the lead to 5-4.  In the bottom of the sixth Conforto hit a two-run double and it was 7-4.  Alonso hit a two-run homerun to extend the lead to 9-4.  Smith hit a solo homerun and it was 10-4.  In the eighth Castro hit a solo homerun cutting the lead to 10-5.  In the bottom of the eighth Smith hit an RBI ground out to make it 11-5 and in the ninth Suzuki hit a solo homerun cutting the lead to 11-6 which would be the final score.