With a win last night in Citi Field, Washington Nationals' lefty Gio Gonzalez improved to (6-1) in nine career starts in the New York Mets' home. With his seven scoreless innings of work, Gonzalez lowered his ERA in Flushing, Queens to 1.66 in 59 u2154 innings pitched, over which he's now walked 20 (with two last night), struck out 60 (after he added nine) and held Mets' hitters to a combined .159/.235/.231 line.
Without some help from his defense, however, he might have been in an early hole.
Gonzalez gave up a one-out single by Mets' center fielder Juan Lagares in the bottom of the first inning and Lagares tried to score on a double to left by Lucas Duda only to get thrown out at home on a perfectly-executed relay from Jayson Werth to Ian Desmond and Wilson Ramos, who applied the tag on the dead-to-rights runner.