Mets walked off by Oswald Peraza, fall to Angels, 4-3, in extra innings
The Mets went to extra innings and lost to the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night by a score of 4-3. Here are the takeaways... -- After striking out the first two batters he faced, Nolan McLean couldn't put the opening inning to bed and allowed three straight singles, two of which came with two strikes.
The third hit of the inning produced an out as right fielder Austin Slater gunned down Jorge Soler at third base, but not before Nolan Schanuel crossed home plate to put the Angels up 1-0... or so the Mets thought. As it turned out, thanks to replay, Soler was tagged out before Schanuel touched home plate which should've canceled the run from counting.
However, New York either didn't see it or caught it too late because nobody in the dugout challenged the call, which is a reviewable play, on the field. The mental lapse cost McLean and the Mets a run. Would it come back to bite them?
-- New York would get the run back in the third inning. After Slater, in the Mets' starting lineup for the first time because of lefty Reid Detmers on the mound, doubled with one out, Bo Bichette drove him in with a two-out single. Slater had a good game and finished 2-for-3 alongside his outfield assist at third base from right field.
-- McLean followed up the missed call in the first inning by retiring the next seven hitters in a row before issuing a one-out walk in the fourth. The inning began innocently, but a single and a wild pitch, the right-hander's first of the season, put runners on second and third with one out. McLean managed to strike out Josh Lowe for a path out of the inning, but after getting ahead in the count 0-2 to Vaughn Grissom , he left a sweeper in the zone that Grissom lined into center field for a two-run single.
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