At the beginning of Friday night, it did not look favorable that a game would be played. After a long 2.5-hour+ rain delay, the Brewers and the Mets played a baseball game as rain continued to fall for most of the night. Chase Anderson took the mound after a strong performance against the Los Angeles Dodgers in his previous start and pitched well for 4.2 innings. He gave up five hits, two runs, and he struck out four. Jacob deGrom, coming off a stint on the Injured List, struggled with control all night. He was only able to get through four innings, giving up five runs. He walked three and struck out seven. The first highlight of the night was a defensive one. It came in the form of Lorenzo Cain, again. Todd Frazier drilled a shot just over the centerfield wall, but on a dead run, LoCain leaped and brought the would-be home run back to end the bottom of the second inning. While the power of Christian Yelich is what Brewers’ fans have become accustomed to, his speed was on display Friday evening. After a walk in the first, he stole second, but was stranded. In the top of the third, he legged out an infield single, and eventually stole second for a second time. He was able to score the game’s first run when Mike Moustakas doubled him in. We were still reelin' from that Cain catch when all of this happened in the 3rd. The #Brewers lead 5-0. #ThisIsMyCrew pic.twitter.com/I9x7WcAYIQ — Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) April 27, 2019 deGrom would hit Ryan Braun with a pitch and walked Travis Shaw to load the bases. Eric Thames would make the Mets pay with a double into right, scoring both Moose and Braun. Orlando Arica was next up, and he singled through a drawn-in infield to score Shaw and Thames to make it 5-0. The Mets threatened with runners on second and third in the bottom of the third inning. Robinson Cano came to the plate looking to drive them in with a fly ball that looked certain to drop. Ryan Braun made a diving play to make the out and end the threat. The Mets would get on the board in the bottom of the fourth. Brandon Nimmo doubled and was eventually driven in on a single by Todd Frazier. But the Brewers would add on. Travis Shaw flipped a fly ball that fell in front of Jeff McNeil and bounced by him, granting Shaw a double. Eric Thames followed up with a walk, and both runners advanced on a passed ball. Orlando Arcia would walk as well, leading the way for Cain to clear the bases with a double down the right field line, and Christian Yelich singled to score Cain, making the score 9-1. A bases-clearing double for LoCain and a single by @ChristianYelich that sends him home have the Brewers up 9-1 in the 5th.#ThisIsMyCrew pic.twitter.com/1EuPEgRDB8 — Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) April 27, 2019 The Mets would score in the bottom of the fifth on a Robinson Cano RBI single. After five innings of play, the score was 9-2, Brewers. New York would not score again. The Brewers would score one more time in the top of the eighth, when Cain singled and scored all the way from first on a double by Moustakas. A RBI double by @Mooose_8 gives the Crew double digits on the night! 10-2 Brewers in the 8th. #ThisIsMyCrew pic.twitter.com/MWGpXBTvpZ — Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) April 27, 2019 Jake Petricka would pitch the final two frames in scoreless fashion, securing the final out after 1 a.m. Eastern Time. The Brewers snapped their losing streak for win number fourteen of the year, 10-2, and are now back above .500 at 14-13. Brandon Woodruff will face off against Noah Syndergaard Saturday night, with first pitch at 6:10 p.m. CDT.<doc-sep>Meet the Mets Jacob deGrom and Corey Oswalt were added back to the Mets’ roster on Friday, but they might as well have stayed away for another day. Both men were hit hard by the Milwaukee Brewers, who absolutely thrashed the Mets following a long rain delay on Friday night. Even a sure thing homer by Todd Frazier was snatched out of the air by a leaping Lorenzo Cain. It was a miserable game for Mets fans, and hopefully a bump in the road and nothing more. Choose your recap: Amazin Avenue short and long, NY Times, Post, Daily News, Newsday, MLB.com, Faith and Fear in Flushing, Bergen County Record. Robinson Cano is starting to feel more comfortable with NL pitching. Jim Duquette talked to the Post about Noah Syndergaard’s struggles and the Yankees’ injury bug. Is Zack Wheeler’s growing use of an increasingly effective two-seam fastball the secret to his 2019 success? Around the National League East The Braves got beaten by the Rockies. Former Braves manager Bobby Cox remains hospitalized following a stroke earlier this month that’s left him unable to speak. Cox has apparently made some progress with walking though. The Phillies beat the Marlins to ascend to the top of the NL East. The Nationals looked to have the Padres on the ropes before giving up a home run in the 9th for the loss. Around Major League Baseball Vladimir Guerrero Jr. lived up to the hype in his debut appearance with the Toronto Blue Jays. Albert Pujols moved past Lou Gherig into fourth place on the career RBIs list. The Tigers have placed Jordan Zimmerman on the DL with a UCL sprain. The Giants finally scored a run in the first inning after a drought that had lasted all season. The Dodgers have now homered in a record 33-straight home games. The White Sox have designated Ervin Santana for assignment after he couldn’t regain his form with the team this season. The White Sox also managed to win a game despite a boneheaded move by Jose Abreu, who passed Tim Anderson on the bases to negate a home run. Yesterday at Amazin’ Avenue Vasilis Drimalitis previewed the Mets/Brewers series. Joe Sokolowski was back with another edition of “This Week in Mets Quotes.” Thomas Henderson handled the Daily Prospect Report duties. This Date in Mets History Nolan Ryan set the career record for strikeouts on this date in 1983. 493 of those strikeouts came as a Met.<doc-sep>NorthJersey.com Digital Desk The Milwaukee Brewers and New York Mets play the second game of their three-game series Saturday night at Citi Field. First pitch is set for 7:10 p.m. EST. The game will be televised in New York on WPIX, while FS1 will carry the game nationally. The Bewers (14-13) will start Brandon Woodruff (2-1, 5.81), while the Mets will have Noah Syndergaard (1-2, 5.90) on the mound. Syndergaard will also be all over the stadium as the Mets (13-12) hand out Syndergaard on the Iron Throne bobbleheads for Game of Thrones night to the first 25,000 fans in the building. Syndergaard once made a cameo on the popular HBO show. Here are the starting lineups announced by the teams: More NY Mets News More:Jacob deGrom's dismal performance dooms Mets in loss to Brewers More:Mets' Jacob Rhame appealing suspension, but still optioned to Class AAA More:Hall of Fame manager Bobby Cox remains hospitalized, has yet to regain speech after stroke<doc-sep>
Another night, another poor performance from a Mets starting pitcher, as the Mets drop the first two games of this three game series against the Brewers. Tonight, it was Noah Syndergaard, pitching on his bobblehead night, but that didn’t grant him any extra luck. Early in the game, Syndergaard was the victim of some unlucky soft contact and poor defense, as the first run of the game scored on an errant Pete Alonso throw to second base. But Syndergaard’s performance can’t be entirely pinned on bad luck, as issues with his location meant he was working with traffic on the bases all evening. A double play helped him out of trouble in the second, but the Brewers scored two additional runs in the third thanks to a walk sandwiched between two base hits. The Mets clawed back a run in the third on a passed ball—a phenomenon that plagued both sides this evening—that allowed Jeff McNeil to score. But Syndergaard surrendered two solo home runs in the fourth inning to Ben Gamel and Christian Yelich and the Brewers opened up a 5-1 lead. Once again, the Mets starter was chased from the game early and Robert Gsellman came in to start the sixth inning and gave up an additional run on a double by Gamel and a single by Mike Moustakas. But the Mets almost mounted a comeback. They put up a four-run seventh inning against the Brewers bullpen, thanks to a solo homer from Amed Rosario and a three-run bomb from Pete Alonso to pull within a run. The game would have been tied at that point if Travis d’Arnaud had not tried to stretch a single into a double and been tagged out for the first out of the inning. Ultimately, d’Arnaud’s mistake didn’t matter, though. Jeurys Familia gave up an additional two runs in the eighth inning, thanks in part to his own poor decision-making in the field. The Mets build another rally in the eighth against Jeremy Jeffress to make the score 8-6, but then Josh Hader neutralized the inning with three straight strikeouts and retired the Mets in order in the ninth to save the game for the Brewers. Full recap to follow. GameThread Roll Call Nice job by MetsFan4Decades; her effort in the GameThread embiggens us all.