Mets hold off Nats in 8-HR slugfest

The Mets will counter with Bartolo Colon (7-4).

Hill (9-3) allowed three hits and one run to extend his winning streak to six games in his second start since coming off the disabled list on Saturday. “It’s pretty risky if you get too much farther back. So we thought that was definitely the right move for him and us”.

Amid pregame news that Harvey is considering season-ending surgery to address thoracic outlet syndrome, Collins had dryly said: “I don’t want it to sound like woe is me, but woe is us”. The home runs, a one-out solo shot from Bryce Harper and back-to-back solo shots from Clint Robinson and Anthony Rendon were the most home runs that Colon had allowed in a game since April 13, 2014 at Anaheim when he allowed four. With the way the bullpen was used last night, the Washington Nationals need at least seven strong innings from Strasburg tonight. He pinch hit in the fifth with two runners on.

Roark three six scoreless innings, seven in total.

It was a game filled with oddities. The No. 1 overall prospect in baseball, per MLB.com and ESPN.com, made his major league debut on June 28 at Nationals Park, tossing 4 innings of rain-interrupted, one-hit ball as the Nationals topped the Mets, 5-0.

LHP Oliver Perez had an unusual night Thursday, when he took the defeat in relief for the Nationals yet also delivered two hits in a 9-7 loss to the Mets.

Reyes also got into the act, producing his first homer with the Mets since September 27, 2011. The teams combined for a Citi Field-record eight homers. He has been pitching so long that his first appearance against the Nationals’ franchise came in 2002, when the team was still the Montreal Expos. Colon is 4-6 with a 3.15 ERA in 11 career appearances (10 starts) against the Nationals/Expos. “So was the guy at first, I guess”, Werth said, according to the Daily News. “Glad I got the opportunity to go out there”. And I was just ready for him. “Bobby Bonds was the “Next Willie Mays”, Carl Yastrzemski was the “next Ted Williams” and Reggie Smith was the “next Carl Yastrzemski” and on and on and on where I try not to make comparisons because it’s not really fair on the person that you’re comparing him to”.

The New York Mets have changed a lot in the eight days since they were swept by the Washington Nationals in Washington, D.C. But the Nationals hope the result remains the same during a four-game series this weekend in New York. 425 (17-for-40) with five homers and 14 RBIs.

Strasburg became the first NL starter since 1913 to begin a season 12-0 on Friday night. “I don’t know how you teach young players now to break up a double play, because there’s no such thing as breaking up a double play”. “Probably a heck of a game to watch, but a bad game to lose”, Nationals manager Dusty Baker said. “And he did that”.

“A good feeling”, Flores said. In 10 games this season against the Mets, Murphy is batting. Strasburg won for the 11th time in as many decisions in his most recent start last Sunday, when he walked four and struck out five over 6 2/3 no-hit innings as the Nationals beat the Cincinnati Reds, 12-1.