Final Score: Mets 8, Phillies 7
If you wanted to see great defense at Citizens Bank Park Sunday, you had to look to some of the 10,964 fans in the stands, because the Philadelphia Phillies didn’t provide it on the field against the New York Mets.
In the rubber match of the series, it appeared that a Didi Gregorius go-ahead home run in the bottom of the sixth inning would allow the Phillies to escape with a series-clinching victory.
Instead, what had already been an ugly night defensively turned into a complete disaster in the top of the eighth inning, which – when coupled with poor pitching – cost the Phillies the game.