New York Mets slug three home runs, blow out Miami Marlins in first game of doubleheader
Braxton Garrett gave up a pair of two-run home runs and things only got worse from there in the Miami Marlins’ 11-2 loss to the New York Mets on Wednesday in the first game of a doubleheader at Citi Field.
The Marlins fall to 81-76 and are now one game behind the Chicago Cubs for the National League’s third and final wild card spot with five games left in the regular season for both teams. The Mets improve to 72-85.
Garrett, making his 30th start of the season, pitched four innings against the Mets and allowed just three hits and two walks while striking out two.
Two of those hits, however, resulted in all four of the Mets’ runs against him. Pete Alonso opened scoring in the first inning with his 46th home run of the season, sending a middle-down cutter a projected 416 feet to left field, to give New York an early 2-0 lead. Francisco Lindor then doubled that advantage in the third with his own two-run home run, sending a near middle-middle sinker 384 feet to left-center.
It was just the fourth time this season Garrett has given up multiple home runs in a game and the first time he allowed more than three runs in a start since July 21, snapping a span of 10 consecutive starts of holding opponent to no more than three runs.
The Mets weren’t done there, though. New York added another two-run home run in the sixth by Mark Vientos against JT Chargois and then scored five more runs in the seventh and eighth innings against Enmanuel De Jesus. All three of their seventh-inning runs came with two outs when six consecutive batters reached base, starting with a Brandon Nimmo single that fell in front of right fielder Jorge Soler. A Nimmo double in the eighth plated the other two runs.
Meanwhile, Miami was shut out through six innings before Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Nick Fortes hit back-to-back doubles to lead off the seventh inning and chase Joey Lucchesi, who held Miami to five hits and two walks in those first six innings. Soler added a sacrifice fly in the seventh against Trevor Gott to cap Miami’s scoring.
The Marlins went 1 for 12 with runners in scoring position and stranded 11 on base.
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