For the second straight night, the Mets offense was almost completely absent. They fell by a score of 2-1 tonight, and have scored just one run in each of the first two games out of this series, of which they’ve dropped the first two games of now.
The decisive blow tonight came from Manny Machado, who ripped a 1-2 slider into the left field party deck for a two-run shot, just one pitch after Chris Bassitt appeared to strike him out on a high strike not called. Blake Snell did not fool the Mets quite like Yu Darvish did last night, but he did not allow a run despite the Mets getting runners on base in nearly every inning against him.