Wilmer Flores hits game victor after Mets tried to trade him

On Wednesday night, it looked like Wilmer Flores, who has been in the New York Mets organization since he was 16 years old, was going to be traded along with Zack Wheeler to the Brewers for Carlos Gomez.

Two days ago, Wilmer Flores was a face in a crowded city.

Flores put the Mets ahead in the fourth against Gio Gonzalez with a two-out RBI single off the glove of diving shortstop Ian Desmond. Making his sixth career start, Ross has 34 strikeouts with three walks and one homer allowed.DeGrom is coming off another superb performance but had to settle for a no-decision despite blanking the Los Angeles Dodgers on two hits over 7 2/3 innings. The Nats couldn’t push anything across against Mets closer Jeurys Familia, nor could they do it against Hansel Robles. “And for tonight to happen the way it did, it’s pretty unreal”.

“Great feeling”, said a grinning Flores, who was asked if he’d ever been cheered that way before. “Game over. We won”.

After Flores touched home plate, the scoreboard, which flashed multiple promotions touting Cespedes’ arrival and fireworks night on Saturday, flashed the words GO WITH THE FLO. Liam Hendriks (3-0) pitched one inning for the win. Gonzalez then walked Juan Legares to load the bases for the Mets, prompting manager Matt Williams to take his left-hander out of the game. And now on July 31st, 2015, Wilmer Flores has proven to Mets fans that he belongs.

For the Nationals, Escobar had an RBI single in the eighth when Washington built a two-out rally against Harvey via a hit batsman and two singles.

“He needs to stay in the baseball game”. “It counts the same”. He gave up three runs and five hits while striking out seven at Pittsburgh last time out after limiting the Mets to two earned runs over 6 1/3 innings in his previous turn. Williams said. “We’re down”. “See if we can make an adjustment on that tomorrow”. Though they did get that middle-of-the-order bat when they traded for Detroit Tigers’ outfielder Yoenis Cespedes just minutes before the deadline ended on Friday.

The Mets could not muster anything together in the bottom half of the eighth, and that remained the story in the ninth, and the game was then headed for extras. And as he rounded third, pounding the Mets logo nearly symbolizing that he’s proud to wear the Orange and Blue, he proved to everyone that his place is in Flushing, NY. In came Tyler Clippard, who threw a ton of pitches to Jayson Werth, most of which were fouled off, before finally getting him to strike out looking, with a little bit of help from the home plate umpire’s strike zone. RHP Carlos Torres, who wore No. 52, will switch to No. 72….

Captain David Wright, who is now on the disabled list, went down into the clubhouse to check out what was going on, and he came back to the bench and said that everything was true. Nationals RHP Stephen Strasburg (left oblique strain) is expected to make his final rehab start for Triple-A Syracuse on Monday.