Zac Gallen has been one of the betters pitchers in the National League this year. but you might not have known it if you only saw him in the Mets’ 7-1 victory over the Diamondbacks tonight in Queens.
Pete Alonso drove in a run with a single in the bottom of the first. Rafael Ortega drove in the Mets’ second run with a double in the third. And hey, while that was imperfect from Gallen, it wasn’t all that bad to that point.
But in the sixth, Alonso doubled in two runs against him, and later in the inning, Mark Vientos hit a two-run home run to put the Mets up 6-0—with all six runs charged to Gallen.