Rangers bats were loud early on, Mets bats were slow, especially at the most important times.
Trevor Williams buried the team in a hole he had never climbed, and the Mets' situational hit was 7-3 to Texas in front of 26,494 in Citi Field on a sunny Saturday afternoon. I lost.
Mets (48-30) lost four of the last five games prior to a rubber match against the Rangers on Sunday. The Braves won again, so Mets' NL East Lead was trimmed to just 2¹ / ² games. This is the closest to the department after April 30th.
The Rangers' four home runs (three of which were the first four innings (two innings from right fielder Kole Calhoun) were enough to sink the Mets. The Mets scored no points after four innings. He was restrained and finished 0-8 with a runner in the scoring position.
During the last five games, the Mets flourished at key moments in most of the season, riding from big hits to big rallies. However, there are runners in the scoring zone with 39 to 4 (.103) ..
"We couldn't connect a lot, manager Buck Showwalter talked about his club, which has recorded a total of 10 runs in the last five games." It creates some opportunities, but never takes advantage of them, but today we hit four balls on the buttons they protected. "
In the absence of an attack, the Mets would have to rely on pitching staff who could carry heavier luggage if they were healthy. The same day the Mets officially announcedJacob DeGrom's rehabilitation. Allocations begin on Sunday(two days before Max Schaser returns to the Major Leaguers), Williams is usually a credible fill-in and co-ace to come back.
Williams is now He pitched well as a swingman for the season, but gave up on Calhoun and Jonaheim's 792-foot home run in the second inning.
The Mets made Sterling Marte's eighth home run this season. One two-run shot jumped forward in one shot, but they went from the edge of the two-run to the two-run hole and proved insurmountable.
"Final "Some wrong pitches that hurt me," said Williams, who was pitching during a three-day break due to the rotation that lost Calhoun, DeGrom, Tyler Megil, and now David Peterson. Or a wife expecting a child Stay with me. "The three-run home run (to Calhorn) was a dagger."
Williams finished with only 3² / ₃ innings and as many strikeouts (three times) as the home run allowed. The five runs he was charged with were each from a long ball, and the last run was Calhorn's second home run.
After Williams was removed, the Mets bullpen had a chance to attack. Strike given — yet another chance to be wasted.
Mets recorded one run at a time, and in the fourth inning, Eduardo Escobar hit a home run to 5-3. They didn't get close.
When Marte hit a single ahead of Francisco Lindor's walk and brought Pete Alonso and excitement to the plate, their greatest threat arriving in the bottom of the fifth inning. But while the slugger hit the ball hard, it immediately went to shortstop Corey Seager. And it started double play at the end of the inning.
After Lindo reached second place without an out, Alonso had another chance in the eighth inning, but he passed strike three. Lindo was one of the seven left behind.
What's wrong with Mets' timely bats?
"Baseball," Lindeau said when asked how a successful team in the clutch froze. "The ups and downs of baseball. It's the time of the year for us. We're all sharpening, working hard and doing our best."
Rangers are Tommy Hunter's 8th and 9th. I worked on a single run. Seger hit a single against the shift to Plate 1, but Leody Taveras's home run represented the game's final run.
There is a game where Mets can take a 2-0 lead in the first inning and win without much drama. But when deGrom or Scherzer is on the mound, those days are much more frequent.
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