Looking to bounce back from a rough, 3 1⁄3-inning, 90-pitch outing against the St. Louis Cardinals in the nation’s capital last week, MacKenzie Gore took the mound on Thursday afternoon in Citi Field, and tossed four scoreless, working around a walk and a double to keep the New York Mets off the board.
Then in the fifth ... Gore gave up a leadoff double on a high fastball to Luis Torrens, and then back-to-back, two-out walks to Jeff McNeil and Francisco Lindor, setting Brandon Nimmo up with an RBI opportunity the Mets’ outfielder cashed in with a base-clearing double to put his team up 3-0 and knock Washington’s starter out of the game in what ended up a 7-0 loss to the Nationals’ NL East rivals, who swept the three-game set in Flushing, Queens.