Mets score four runs in sixth inning to beat Rockies, 4-2
The Mets opened up their three-game series with the Colorado Rockies on Monday with a 4-2 win. Here are the takeaways... -- Through the first five innings of the game both teams combined for just one hit.
How did they get there? Well, Huascar Brazoban pitched a scoreless inning to open up the game and Austin Warren went two innings without allowing a run and struck out three. That allowed David Peterson , whose numbers have been astronomically better this season as a reliever, to enter the game in the fourth inning where he continued New York’s excellent pitching.
-- On the other side, Tomoyuki Sugano held the Mets hitless over five innings and had faced the minimum thanks to a double play after a walk in the third. All of that turned on a dime in the sixth inning, though, when the Mets had three straight extra-base hits to take a 2-0 lead. -- Carson Benge started things off by crushing a leadoff homer 436 feet to right-center, before Francisco Alvarez hit one 404 feet off the left-center field fence for a double.
Luis Torrens then snapped an 0-for-13 skid with an opposite-field double and New York was suddenly in business. -- Later in the inning, with runners on second and third and two outs Mark Vientos , who had 815 feet worth of flyouts to the warning track in left field over his first two at-bats, a day after hitting two monster home runs, came up to the plate. Facing reliever Jaden Hill , Vientos lined one up the middle and was finally rewarded for his efforts with a two-run single to double the Mets’ lead and cap their four-run inning.
Vientos has six RBI in his last two games. -- Staked to a 4-0 advantage, Peterson followed up New York’s big inning with a shutdown inning of his own by striking out the side, including two via the ABS system. He ran into trouble in the seventh after retiring the first two, but a single and a long triple by Jordan Beck got Colorado on the board.