The New York Mets were defeated by
the Washington Nationals on Monday night.
The game took place at Nationals Park in Washington D.C. and the final
score was 8-4. Jerad Eickhoff started
for the Mets and he didn’t pitch well.
The Mets had four players with two hits to lead the offense.
Eickhoff pitched six innings giving
up eight hits and five runs with a walk and three strikeouts. Eickhoff lost his first game of the
season. Sean Reid-Foley pitched an
inning giving up a hit and a walk with a strikeout, Miguel Castro pitched an
inning giving up two hits and three runs with two of them being earned. He walked a batter.
Paolo Espino pitched five innings
giving up five hits and no runs with no walks and three strikeouts. He won his second game of the season. Sam Clay pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a
hit and a run with a strikeout, Wander Suero pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up
two hits and a run with a strikeout and Justin Miller pitched 1/3 of an
inninggiving up two hits and two runs with a strikeout. Brad Hand saved his 17th game of
the season pitching 1 2/3 innings with two strikeouts.
Jeff McNeil had two hits and an
RBI, Dom Smith had two hits and Pete Alonso had two hits and two RBI. Billy McKinney had a hit and an RBI, Luis
Guillorme had two hits and Patrick Mazeika had a hit. Alonso and McKinney each hit a homerun. The Mets were 1-7 with runners in scoring
position and left seven men on base.
Alonso committed an error and Blankenhorn committed two errors.
Kyle Schwarber had three hits and
two RBI, Trea Turner had two hits and an RBI and Juan Soto had a hit. Josh Bell drew a walk, Yan Gomes had a hit
and Gerardo Parra had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk. Starlin Castro had a hit, an RBI and drew a
walk. Ryan Zimmerman had a hit and three
RBI. Soto, Parra and Gomes each hit a double
and Schwarber hit two homeruns. The
Nationals were 2-9 with runners in scoring position and left six men on
base. Castro committed an error.
In the first Schwarber hit a solo
homerun, Turner hit a solo homerun and the Nationals grabbed a 2-0 lead. IN the bottom of the second Parra hit a solo
homerun pushing the lead to 3-0. In the
bottom of the fifth Schwarber hit a solo homerun making it 4-0. In the bottom of the sixth Castro hit an RBI
single pushing the lead to 5-0. In the
seventh McNeil hit an RBI single cutting the lead to 5-1. In the eighth Alonso hit a two-run homerun
making it a 5-3 game. McKinney hit a
solo homerun and it was 5-4. In the
bottom of the eighth Zimmerman hit a three-run homerun making it 8-4 and that
would be the final score.