MIAMI — Adam Ottavino has been an ace within the Mets bullpen these days, however he couldn’t keep away from getting stung in Sunday’s ninth inning.
Nick Fortes launched a two-out, walk-off homer towards Ottavino, sending the Mets to a 3-2 loss to the Marlins at loanDepot park. The Mets wasted a possibility to brush their first highway collection of the season.
Moments after Luis Guillorme totally prolonged to rob Jesus Aguilar of successful, Fortes launched an Ottavino slider over the left-field fence to start the Marlins’ celebration. Ottavino had allowed just one earned in his earlier 19 appearances.
“It was inside, it wasn’t even a strike and I attempted to slip step after the primary slider and it bought forward of my hand,” Ottavino stated. “That’s sort of what occurred out of the hand, hoping he didn’t swing, however not the case.”
Ottavino was the plain selection for supervisor Buck Showalter within the inning with Edwin Diaz unavailable due to latest utilization. Seth Lugo was Showalter’s different main choice for the ninth. Ottavino’s latest surge had included 9 straight appearances this month with no run allowed.
“I don’t need to lose the sport for the group, however personally it’s a blip, a bump within the highway,” Ottavino stated. “I'm not going to lose sleep over it individually, it simply sucks to lose for the group.”
Within the eighth, J.D. Davis reached scoring place on a wild pitch because the go-ahead run for the Mets, however Eduardo Escobar, Guillorme and James McCann have been retired in succession. Escobar struck out, failing in transferring the runner to 3rd with no one out.
It continued a tough stretch for the veteran third baseman, who's 5-for-44 (.114) during the last two weeks.
“It looks like each borderline pitch to him is a strike,” Showalter stated. “He's taking part in the heck out of third base for us. He's a drive on the sector and off, however we're not even midway there. It bodes nicely for the remainder of the season if sooner or later [Escobar] can get it going.”
David Peterson offered his group with a second robust begin towards the Marlins in lower than per week. The left-hander, who's awaiting paternity go away for the beginning of a son, pitched seven innings and allowed two earned runs on 4 hits with eight strikeouts and lowered his ERA to three.10.
It adopted a efficiency towards Miami final Monday wherein Peterson pitched 5 ¹/₃ innings scoreless. The left-hander’s greatest work general this season has occurred on the highway, the place he has pitched to a 2.17 ERA in six appearances.
On this present day Peterson retired 12 of the ultimate 13 batters he confronted in finishing seven innings for the primary time this season. Peterson’s earlier excessive was six innings pitched in a victory at San Francisco on Might 23.
Brandon Nimmo homered main off the third to tie it 1-1. The homer, which cleared the center-field fence, was Nimmo’s fifth this season.
Earlier than the inning was full the Mets had one other run: Starling Marte doubled simply contained in the third-base line and Pete Alonso hit a bloop over first base for a double that scored Marte and prolonged Alonso’s MLB lead in RBIs to 69.
Jon Berti’s double main off the underside of the primary led to the Marlins scoring their first run, on Garrett Cooper’s sacrifice fly. Peterson surrendered a solo homer within the third to Miguel Rojas that tied it 2-2.
Peterson was environment friendly, retiring the facet so as within the fourth, sixth and seventh innings. Within the fifth he surrendered a two-out double to Erik Gonzalez earlier than placing out Berti.
The Mets went 1-for-13 with runners in scoring place on a day they managed solely 5 hits towards lefty Daniel Castano and the Marlins bullpen.
“I assumed early on we had an opportunity to get one thing going and never let [Castano] get his ft on the bottom,” Showalter stated.
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