We went in early to get ahead with fastballs and then the (pitch) before I threw slider, it was way off the plate, not even close, and then tried to make the next one a little more enticing. We were just going to kind of work off the edge. “There’s a lot of chase off the plate on the slider with him. “We’re trying to pitch around him,” Musgrove said. Starling Marte’s single and Francisco Lindor’s double began the bottom of the sixth, and Alonso followed by sending a slider that caught too much plate on a line to the second level of seats beyond left field for his 25 th home run of the season. Staked to the 1-0 lead on Hosmer’s double, Musgrove would not escape an identical jam in the sixth inning. Seven pitches later, Musgrove had gotten three routine groundball outs and the game was still tied 0-0. Mark Canha followed with a double lined to the corner in left field that moved Vogelbach to third. We had some opportunities off Carrasco that we didn’t cash in that probably cost us a little bit later.”ĭaniel Vogelbach, acquired by the Mets in a Friday trade, led off the bottom of the fifth with a single, his first hit with the Mets and his first hit in nine career at-bats against Musgrove and the Mets’ first hit off Musgrove on Sunday. “It was more issues early on against Carrasco, when it looked like he was getting tired pretty early,” Melvin said. But despite having at least one hit in each of the first four innings and a runner in scoring position in two of them, the Padres were scoreless. Mets starter Carlos Carrasco allowed six hits and walked two in five innings. 2 trade deadline, as well as counting down the days to Fernando Tatis Jr.'s expected early-August return from a wrist injury. But after a two-day reprieve, it was again abundantly clear why the Padres are actively pursuing Juan Soto and multiple other hitters in advance of the Aug. They had opportunities to make more of Sunday night. It was couple of big swings that gave us a couple of victories in the first two games.” “That cost us today,” manager Bob Melvin said of the issues moving runners. They won the first two games because they got excellent pitching and Hosmer hit a two-run homer Friday and Machado did the same Saturday. The Padres were 3-for-12 with runners in scoring position Sunday and 3-for-26 in the series. Manny Machado’s RBI double and an RBI single by pinch-hitter Jorge Alfaro in the ninth inning also came with runners in scoring position.
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They took a 1-0 lead in the sixth on Eric Hosmer’s two-out double, and a run in the eighth and three in the ninth made the final score and another number look better than the reality of their futility.Īustin Nola’s single in the eighth inning was the Padres’ first hit of the series with a runner in scoring position and made it 8-2. But before that, the Padres also showed a lot of carryover from the unproductive month that led up to the All-Star break. The Padres did force Mets closer Edwin Diaz into the game after they had scored twice and had runners at the corners with no outs in the ninth.
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