The best part of the Mets’ homestand so far was Thursday’s rain cancellation.
Since then, the Mets have dropped the first three games of the season for the first time since 2014, but Milwaukee won 4-1 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep at Citi Field.
For the second time in this series, the Mets’ batting lineup was mostly silent on Sunday with just one run, two extra-base hits, and two doubles.
And aside from getting booed before each at-bat, even Mets nemesis Reece Hoskins couldn’t bring any drama to the game, but he was set to face Johan Alvarez again. This time Alvarez went up and struck out Hoskins — and — early in his at-bat.
Alvarez is serving a three-game suspension from MLB for pitching in a loss to Hoskins on Saturday, while rookie manager Carlos Mendoza is serving a one-game suspension, and the Mets have bench coach John・While Gibbons was in control of the match, there were no notable movements.
Tyler Megill was making his first start this season and struggled with his command, walking three times and giving up a hit in the fourth inning.
Megill allowed an unearned run on 29 pitches in the first inning.
Milwaukee got a double in the second when Bryce Turan singled and followed with a fly to Jackson Cholio, which fell into the right field while Starling Marte seemed to lose it. . Turan scored to make it 2-0.
DH Francisco Alvarez continued his strong start by hitting a double down the left field line with one out in the bottom of the second inning, and scored on Tyrone Taylor’s single over the left field, reducing the Mets’ lead to two points. 1.
But that was all the Mets’ batting line had to offer, and Megill was in trouble again in the third inning, giving one-out walks to Christian Yelich and Willie Adames, then giving up a hit by a pitch to Oliver Dunn to make it 3-2 and Hoskins loaded the bases. And so.
After falling behind 2-0, Megill went back to a full count and Hoskins narrowly missed an extra-base hit down the left field line, resulting in a narrow foul.
Hoskins then hit a late comeback hit and Megill contributed to an inning-ending double play, but it took Hoskins, a right-hander, 69 pitches to get through the third inning.
The Mets had two on and two out against Colin Ray in the bottom of the inning. Taylor walked after 12 pitches, Omar Narvaez loaded the bases, and Narvaez flied out to right field to end the 30-pitch inning.
Ramirez appealed his suspension, allowing him to start at No. 5 in Megill’s place.
The right-handed pitcher allowed a bases-loaded RBI to Dunn before fanning Hoskins, but Ramirez allowed another run in the sixth inning with William Contreras’ two-out double.
He went at least three complete innings to limit the damage to the Mets’ bullpen early in the season.
Marte added a double in the 8th inning, but Alvarez struck out.
