Mets swept by Dodgers after 8-2 loss as losing streak reaches eight games

2 innings on Tuesday night. Ohtani was similarly dominant over his six innings of work, striking out 10 and allowing a run on two hits and two walks. -- The only Met to figure out Ohtani was MJ Melendez who got the start after getting called up from the minors earlier in the day for the injured Jared Young and who was making his team debut after being slotted into the lineup as the No.

8 hitter. After Ohtani set down the first seven batters of the game, Melendez hit a double to the gap in left center field in his first at-bat for New York. He was stranded on second base after Ohtani struck out the next two.

In his second at-bat, Melendez got the better of Ohtani again with another double, this one over the head of right fielder Kyle Tucker that bounced into the stands for a ground-rule double. The hit drove in the Mets' first run of the night and ended a scoreless streak of 33 innings for Ohtani. It also put New York in business with runners on second and third and one out, however Tommy Pham struck out before Francisco Lindor lined out to end the inning with nothing else.

-- That inning could've gone much differently for the Mets, though, if not for a baserunning mistake by Francisco Alvarez . Alvarez led off the inning with a walk which brought up Carson Benge who served one into left field that Teoscar Hernandez trapped in his glove after making a sliding attempt for the ball. Instead of reaching second base on the play, Alvarez thought the ball was caught and went back to first base and was thrown out at second base on the force out.