Mets Blow Game, Mets Grounds Crew Blows Rain Delay

Mets rookie pitcher Noah Syndergaard had an impressive outing against the Padres, with a flawless game until the seventh, but still getting the win, 4-0. Matt Kemp, Yangervis Solarte and Will Venable all drove in early runs as San Diego chased Bartolo Colon (9-10) after only 2 1-3 innings, his shortest start since 2012. “Usually they say get through it. I’ve been there in the past, I was little surprised when they stopped the game”.

Firing his fastball up to 98 miles per hour, Syndergaard (5-5) struck out nine, walked none and allowed only three singles in eight innings.

The Tampa Bay Rays won back-to-back games swinging the bats, with an unlikely spark in backup catcher Curt Casali, who hit two home runs for the second straight night in Tuesday’s 10-2 win over the Detroit Tigers at Tropicana Field.

“I didn’t feel different”, Familia said of the delay.

But Venable ended the suspense on the first pitch of the seventh, which he laced up the middle for a clean single to end Syndergaard’s bid for the 24th flawless game in history and the first by a Mets hurler. “You can’t pay too much attention to what’s happening at the moment”.

The Tigers have lost four of five to start a 10-game game road trip. Juan Lagares had a sacrifice fly and Ruben Tejada a run-scoring single after Clint Barmes’ fielding error at shortstop.

Reds frst baseman Joey Votto busted up a scoreless tie in the top of the sixth inning with a three-run homer, giving starter Mike Leake all the support required to post a 4-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium.

“Just shows how he’s progressing as a pitcher”, Duda said. He pitched around four walks, which tied his career high. C Travis d’Arnaud (left elbow sprain), who has been on the disabled list since June 23, rejoined the Mets after five rehab games with Double-A Binghamton and is expected to be activated Friday…. “I’m prepared to do whatever they ask me to do, ” he said. “What I saw out there tonight was pretty special”. Federowicz is out of minor league options. He said absorbing that defeat didn’t have any impact on how he performed Tuesday.

“We just had a tremendous game”.

“Last night obviously was a tough one for a lot of people involved”, Mets manager Terry Collins said. “Extremely, extremely disappointed in what’s happened”.

New York Mets infielder Wilmer Flores found that out firsthand Wednesday night.

“It was a two-seam, and it might have been on the black”, Shields said. “Just got to get back on the mound and continue to make quality pitches”.

Anthony Rizzo’s three-run homer in the eighth inning powered the Chicago Cubs to a 5-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.

Now, they’ve choked up a six run lead against the San Diego Padres in the rubber game of a three game set at Citi Field.

Fernandez (4-0) struck out five batters and allowed four hits and one run in six innings.

This time, he barely got touched. “Don’t know how significant it is”, Murphy said. They upped it to 7-1 in the bottom of the sixth on Juan Uribe’s first homer for New York, his ninth overall. He remains confident he will return to the lineup this season….

Pittsburgh hadn’t allowed so many runs since a 15-5 loss to Arizona on August 17, 2013. Yankees closer Andrew Miller (0-2) got Elvis Andrus out on a deep fly ball before DeShields became the second out when he was hit on the foot by Leonys Martin’s hard shot while running the bases.