Christian Scott set the tone for Mets' comeback win over Angels with improved second start
After a clunker of a first start, Christian Scott bounced back in a big way, going five innings and giving the Mets a chance to make their come back against the Angels on Friday night.
Earlier in the day, Christian Scott said he was ready to leave his rough first start behind him. And that's exactly what the young Mets right-hander did on Friday. Going up against the Angels, Scott wasn't his sharpest, but showed improvement, going five innings in the Mets' eventual 4-3 win .
But it could have gone sideways fast, and it almost did, for Scott and the Mets in the first inning. Scott allowed a one-out single to Mike Trout and two batters later, Jorge Soler took him deep. The Mets, losers of 17 of their last 20 games, were already down two runs.
But Scott settled in. Aside from the third inning when he hit Zach Neto with a pitch to lead off, and he eventually scored on two stolen bases and a throwing error by Francisco Alvarez , the Angels could not get anything going off of Scott. Scott would retire the last nine batters he faced.
"That first inning, coming back from that last outing and he kept going," manager Carlos Mendoza said of Scott's outing. "He didn’t put his head down and kept attacking and gave us five innings and a chance to win a baseball game. " "When you go down 2-0 pretty early, you can start to overthink things," Scott said.