The loss was the Mets’ 12th in 15 games and pushed them two games below .500 for the first time this season.
CINCINNATI — The Mets broke normal protocol and traveled during Monday’s day off instead of immediately after the previous day’s game in part because the players don’t exactly love this city.On the field, the locale doesn’t matter: the Mets are spreading fertilizer everywhere — at least it smells that way.
On Tuesday they combined another rough pitching performance with two giant missed opportunities in a 7-6 loss to the Reds at Great American Ball Park. in 15 games and pushed them two games below .500 for the first time this season., David Peterson received a recall from Triple-A Syracuse and reminded the Mets why he was recently demoted in the first place.
The Reds knocked out the left-hander in the fourth inning and piled on against Stephen Nogosek, the latest Mets reliever needed for extended duty.The missed opportunity came in the seventh inning and eighth innings, when the Mets failed to capitalize on chances with the bases loaded. In the seventh, the Mets loaded the bases with nobody out after Pete Alonso’s homer sliced the Reds’ lead to 7-3 and Mark Canha hit into a double play.
In the eighth, the Mets loaded the bases with two outs after Francisco Lindor’s two-run homer, but Luis Guillorme struck out against Alexis Diaz.It was the first multi-homer game of the rookie’s major league career.
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