The Mets led 3-0, Nolan McLean was perfect through five, and the Twins were throwing a spot-starter in Simeon Woods Richardson, who came into the game with a 6.10 ERA.
The Mets also somehow lost, again, giving them an abhorrent 12th straight loss. They are now 7-16. Yikes.
The game was a game of two halves. with Francisco Lindor hitting an absolute bomb of a three run home run in the third inning. With Nolan McLean dealing, to the point where he had a perfect game through five. The Twins got to him
in the sixth, however, and the wheels slowly but surely fell off from there.
Matt Wallner broke up the perfect game bid with a single to lead off the sixth, but a Royce Lewis line out and Brooks Lee strikeout set McLean up to throw a sixth zero on the board. However, his World Baseball Classic teammate Byron Buxton would have none of it, turning on a poor 3-1 cutter to make it 3-2.
Carlos Mendoza, for some reason, let McLean get the seventh after the Twins got to him in the sixth, and he paid for it dearly. A one out double by Kody Clemens put the tying run in scoring position, and Luke Keaschall singled him home to tie it. He would steal second, but Huascar Brazoban came in and kept the score at 3-3.
The score stayed that way until the ninth inning. The Twins, who have one of the leakiest bullpens in the league with a 5.07 ERA coming into the game as a unit, naturally threw four scoreless innings behind Woods Richardson. Brazoban proved to be a quality bridge to the ninth inning, where Devin Williams came in to get it the bottom of the ninth tied.
He did not.
Williams imploded, to say the least. He walked the first two batters. Clemens came in to bunt the runners over and Mark Vientos attempted to throw the runner out at third to no avail, setting up a bases loaded, no outs situation. Williams gave up a completely unlucky chopper of a single to make it 4-3, walked the next batter to make it 5-3, and was relieved by Austin Warren.
Warren, to his credit, looked electric, striking out all three batters he faced to give the Mets a punchers chance in the ninth. They, of course, did not do a thing with that chance, going down meekly.
At least Juan Soto will be back tomorrow!
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This one hurrrrrrrrrrts.
What’s WPA?
Big Mets winner: Francisco Lindor, +19% WPA
Big Mets loser: Devin Williams, -47% WPA
Mets pitchers: -32% WPA
Mets hitters: -18% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Francisco Lindor’s three run home run, +24.3% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Luke Kearshall’s RBI single, -16.9% WPA
