The Mets took the field on Friday for the first game in a three-game set against the Rockies with their ace on the mound, so they had every reason to hope that the series would start off on a good note. But as has too often been the case in games Jacob deGrom has started, the offense could not get anything going, and the bullpen let a tight game get away from them, and the boys in orange and blue fell to the boys in purple 5-1.
Little of note occurred in the first two innings, as both teams went scoreless in spite of one hit for the Rockies and two hits—a Michael Conforto single in the first and an Amed Rosario double in the second—for the Mets.