BALTIMORE — The Mets‘ points hitting with runners in scoring place proceed to linger into the summer season months. Thursday afternoon at Camden Yards, the Mets had alternatives to extend a one-run lead towards the Baltimore Orioles, however got here up empty every time, spoiling what was in any other case a stellar outing by left-hander David Peterson.
Proper-hander Ryne Stanek relieved Peterson with one on and none out within the backside of the eight, and served up a two-run homer to pinch-hitter Gunnar Henderson, overtaking the Mets for a 3-1 win Thursday afternoon within the first sport of a doubleheader.
“He just didn’t have it,” supervisor Carlos Mendoza mentioned of Stanek.
After the Mets took a 1-0 lead within the backside of the fifth, Mendoza communicated with Peterson about his plans to guard a slim lead. Peterson, who was extraordinarily pitch-efficient all through the outing, wished to stay within the sport so long as he might. Within the eighth, he wasn’t shocked to get pulled proper after pitching to the left-handed Colton Cowser.
There have been three left-handers arising and Stanek was within the bullpen prepared face them.
“Mendy pulled me aside after the sixth, and he just said, ‘Look, I’m going to be aggressive with a tight game,’” Peterson mentioned. “And I understood the situation, so I said, ‘Let’s go batter to batter, see how it goes.’ I tried to make sure that I told him that I felt good and I still had plenty in the tank. So that was kind of the plan through the seventh, and then he said same thing with the eighth, just go batter-to-batter and see what happens.”
Mendoza, not eager to burn a warmed-up Stanek, introduced him in to counter the righties. However the Orioles, seeing the pitching change, despatched the left-handed Henderson out the plate as a substitute of Luis Vasquez. Henderson acquired forward 2-1 earlier than sending a slider 400 toes over the right-field scoreboard.
“On that pitch, I was trying to drive a slider down bottom-rail and below, and missed a little bit in,” Stanek mentioned. “He’s a good hitter and he made me pay for it. That was pretty much my whole process. Slider down and get it below, to get either weak contact or a swing miss.”
One run was charged to Peterson, who allowed 5 hits and struck out six in his greatest exhibiting since his complete-game shutout June 11. Stanek couldn’t discover the strike zone and allowed three earned.
It was a particularly pitch-efficient outing for Peterson. He threw solely six pitches within the first inning, getting round a leadoff single by Jackson Holliday. From there, he retired 9 straight hitters and 14 of 16. Taylor erased a runner within the fourth, throwing out Jordan Westburg at third base from middle subject when he tried to go first-to-third on a single by Ramon Laureano.
With Laureano on third and one out, Ramon Urias battled Peterson for 11 pitches earlier than lastly lining out to Brandon Nimmo in left subject.
Tyrone Taylor drove in the one run of the sport with an RBI double off right-hander Charlie Morton within the high of the fifth inning, his first extra-base hit since June 29, and his first RBI since June 26. It was the one hit with a runner in scoring place for the Mets within the sport in 11 tries. Bretty Baty was advantageous on the basepaths after a single, stealing second to place him in place to make it residence on Taylor’s line-drive double to proper subject.
The Mets (53-40), who personal the fourth-worst common in baseball with runners in scoring place, had runners on base within the first, third and fifth innings and a runner on second within the sixth when Mark Vientos hit a leadoff double. Morton was stable in these conditions, working again from 3-1 on Brett Baty to get him to have a look at a known as strike 3 to finish his outing within the sixth inning.
“We create traffic and we were not only not able to get the big hit, but we weren’t able to get guys over,” mentioned supervisor Carlos Mendoza.
Left-hander Grant Wolfram (1-0) retired the Mets so as within the seventh, and restricted them to solely a bloop single by Vientos within the eighth. Vientos went 2-for-3, changing Jesse Winker within the fourth inning after the DH left the sport with again tightness, solely his second sport since being activated off the injured listing.
Morton held the Mets to just one run on 4 hits. He walked three and struck out seven for the Orioles (41-50).
The Mets went down to be able to left-hander nearer Felix Bautista (18 saves) within the ninth.
“Look, our situational hitting, we didn’t execute,” Mendoza mentioned. “We had runners at second base with nobody out probably four times and we didn’t get the guy over. That’s the game right there.”
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