McLean Runs Out Of Gas In Sixth Again As Mets Lose, 3-1, To Drop Series To Rockies

McLean Runs Out Of Gas In Sixth Again As Mets Lose, 3-1, To Drop Series To Rockies

The New York Mets returned once again to their losing ways against the Colorado Rockies, 3-2, ruining another good start by Nolan McLean with some of the same horrible defense and punchless offense that characterized their recent 12-game losing streak.

McLean was on his strikeout game early as he struck out six of the first nine hitters he faced in the first three innings. But Colorado scored first in the fourth with a series of hard-hit singles by Edouard Julien, Mike Moniak and Troy Johnston, with Johnston’s hit scoring Julien.

The Mets tied the game in the fifth on a solo home run by Tyrod Taylor, but it didn’t take McLean long to give the Rockies the lead again. He got rocked hard on a double by Julien, then walked Moniak, and that was when bad Mets defense did McLean in once again, as first baseman Mark Vientos fielded a perfect double play ball but drilled Moniak in the back on the throw to second, with the error loading the bases.

That was it for McLean, and Huascar Brazoban came on in relief for the Mets. Brazoban did his job by getting a double-play ball, but it allowed Julien to score his second run of the day to put Colorado up 2-1.

That was all the Rockies needed, but they added an insurance run in the seventh inning off Brazoban on a double to right by Sullivan and a single by Jake McCarthy to score him.

For the Mets, the rest of the game was about offensive futility that’s stupefying to watch at times. The Mets loaded the bases in the first with one out and couldn’t score, then did the same thing in the eighth and duplicated the results as fouled out and Vientos struck out.