Mets' bats stay dormant in 4-1 loss to Marlins
The Mets' bats stayed dormant, mustering just three hits in their 4-1 loss to the Marlins in Miami on Saturday afternoon.
The Mets ' bats stayed dormant, mustering just three hits in their 4-1 loss to the Marlins in Miami on Saturday afternoon. Mark Vientos picked up a squib hit (64. 2 mph off the bat) in the second inning, but wouldn't get another until the ninth.
New York worked three walks as a team, and Vientos was hit by a pitch and was the only Mets batter to get on base twice. Even the red-hot Juan Soto (0-3, BB) was held hitless as the Mets (22-30) lost back-to-back games and are 2-4 on the current seven-game road trip. Here are the takeaways...
- Unlike in the series opener, the Marlins would get on the board first against Freddy Peralta . Back-to-back one-out singles in the second inning put runners on second and third -- thanks to an ill-advised throw by Soto -- before Owen Cassie lined a double past a diving Vientos to drive in the first two runs of the game. Liam Hicks launched a 389-foot blast, just past the outstretched glove of Carson Benge, to give Miami a 3-0 lead.
It wouldn't get much better for Peralta in the fourth as the Marlins got two men on base with two outs. Xavier Edwards hit a slow grounder to Vientos at first, but the young infielder couldn't make the shovel pass to Peralta covering, allowing Edwards to reach, but fortunately for the Mets, Vientos threw out Graham Pauley at the plate trying to score from second. In the fifth, Hicks would get to Peralta again, leading off with his 11th homer of the season to put Miami up 4-0.