Coming off a six-inning outing against Atlanta in which he held the Braves to a run on two hits, walking one and striking out five, Jake Irvin impressed again last night in Citi Field, in what ended up a 7 1⁄3 inning start.
Irvin, 27, gave up four hits and one earned run this time, walking one again, with another five strikeouts.
Irvin threw 94 pitches, 65 for strikes, to the 26 Mets’ batters he faced, retiring nine straight to start the night, and 11 of the first 12, while holding the home team off the board through seven before a leadoff double in the eighth and and RBI single two outs later, with reliever Derek Law on in relief, brought the only run on Irvin’s line around, tying things up at 1-1 for a couple innings before the Mets won it in extras, 2-1.