The Mets’ offense came thru again, this time with three home runs. Unfortunately, the pitching did not and the result was an 11-7 loss to the Royals Saturday afternoon at Citi Field.
Sean Manaea was staked to a 3-1 lead but was unable to hold it. Pete Alonso tied the game in the bottom of the third with a solo homer at 4-4. But Manaea again gave up runs, this time aided by an error from Starling Marte. Manaea gave up 8 R, 6 ER in 3.2 IP and saw his ERA go up from below 1.00 to 4.30 for the year.
The Royals tacked on another run in the fifth inning and two more In the sixth to open up an 11-4 lead. But the Mets battled back.
Alonso added his second homer of the day in the sixth inning and Marte belted his second homer of the year in the eighth. Joey Wendle and Marte both singled in the ninth and the Mets were hoping that Alonso could come to the plate with a chance to tie the game. But Franciso Lindor capped an O-fer with a ground out to second to end the game.
Sorry for no chatter today – thought it was a night game.
I love Lindor for his leadership skills, but boy, is he hurting offensively right now.
Charlie is right. In order to hide Lindor’s lack of offensive production, it may be time to put some plays on when he is hitting. A hit and run will allow him to concentrate on just hitting the ball rather than the added pressure of driving it. Then, by moving him to lead off, he can look to just get on base.
I am not say the time has come to do the latter, but we can entertain the former just to shake things up.
The wheels came off the cart with Marte’s major error on a simple pop fly that clanked off his glove and a few minutes later when Nimmo went to the wall on a harder catch but in the field of play and had the ball clanked off his glove and then went over the wall for a HR. Both outs would have kept Manea in the game and at a 4-4 tie. Abdominal OF defense.
Abdominal? That is truly a Gut Reaction…
It hurt my stomach it was so bad!
Abominable
Dern autokorrekt
The wheels fell of Manaea yesterday and it really was to be expected, as these retread starters can’t be expected to all pitch like a #2 or #3. Nice to see Pete keep up his clutch hitting but when every other hitter at the top of the order takes an o-fer, your chances of winning greatly decrease. A rare hitless day for Baty and Nimmo. Lindor scored a run but again can’t buy a hit. Last three relievers continued the overall strong pitching from the pen. Butto gets his well deserved second start on retire Doc’ number day. The DVR is ready to go.