Todd Frazier hit his first two home runs with the Mets, catcher Jose Lobaton tripled in his first at-bat with the team, and NY extended its winning streak to nine with a 6-5 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night. Since we're already nearly three weeks in it's time for the first episode of the season. Just like last season, Thames has come out hot out of the gate with five home runs.
Syndergaard is 2-0 with a 0,69 ERA in two career starts against the Brewers. What are three ups and three downs from the first couple weeks of the season? He surrendered four hits, including a solo home run to Ben Zobrist, while also walking two batters and striking out two.
5-0 in their last 5 games vs. a starter with a WHIP greater than 1.30.
DODGERS 7, DIAMONDBACKS 2: Clayton Kershaw struck out 12 and pitched two-hit ball over seven innings as Los Angeles won at home to end an 11-game losing streak against Arizona in the regular season.
Brewers hitters have slashed.243/.304/.386 on their way to 3.5 runs scored per game in 2018, including 2.8 runs per game over the team's last 10 games and 3.2 per game over the team's last five outings (2-3 SU).
The gregarious New Jerseyite - he limited his postgame remarks to two minutes in order to head to Toms River for his son's Little League game Saturday - popularized a thumbs-down salute with the Yankees past year after he homered during a Tampa Bay-Yankees game moved to Citi Field and a Mets fan was caught making the motion to him.
Carlos Gonzalez homered and later hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly as Colorado defeated host Washington. He crushed a 2-0 pitch from Washington starter Tanner Roark (1-1) into the seats in right-center for a 438-foot solo homer. The Nationals have gone 2-8 since starting the season with four straight wins.
It was 68 degrees on the first warm home night of the season, contributing to a crowd of 34.921.
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It was the second straight win for St. Louis, while Cincinnati fell to an MLB-worst 2-11 with its sixth straight loss.
But Callaway's decision to use Jay Bruce to pinch-hit for catcher Tomas Nido with runners on second and third in the fifth inning was a head-scratcher - it was a foregone conclusion the Brewers would walk Bruce to load the bases for Syndergaard, and due to the injuries to Travis d'Arnaud and Kevin Plawecki, Jose Lobaton was the only other catcher on the roster - as was his decision to allow Syndergaard to bat for himself. Albert Pujols homered and drove in three runs. He's now 0-1 with a 3.38 ERA. He scored four times and hit his third homer off Junichi Tazawa.
Astros 3, Rangers 2: Pinch runner Derek Fisher scored on a two-base fielding error in the eighth inning, and Houston eked out a win over visiting Texas.
Teoscar Hernandez, just recalled from Triple-A Buffalo, doubled in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning, and Toronto went on to defeat host Cleveland.
Phillies 2, Rays 1: Jorge Alfaro singled in the go-ahead run with two outs in the top of the ninth inning, and Philadelphia won for the sixth time in seven games in beating host Tampa Bay.
Cain reached on an infield hit in the seventh - Frazier's backhand snag at third saved a double - and then was thrown out by Cespedes trying to go from first to third on Santana's single to left.
The Brewers are fourth in the NL Central at 8-8, three-and-a-half games behind the Pirates.
Red Sox 7, Orioles 3 • Eduardo Nunez hit a three-run homer, Eduardo Rodriguez struck out eight over six stingy innings and host Boston equaled its best start in 100 years with a win over Baltimore Orioles.
