The Mets were mauled by the Milwaukee Brewers last night. Dillon Gee lasted only five and one-third innings while giving up eight hits and seven runs. Brewers first baseman Travis Ishikawa, who is only in the lineup because of regular first baseman Matt Gamel’s ACL tear, went 3 for 4 with two homers and five RBI.
The Brewers have now won four of their last eight games. In each of the four wins, they scored exactly eight runs. After the game, Ishikawa explained the need to score so many runs.
“Then we need to score eight runs every time,” first baseman Travis Ishikawa said a few hours later. “Because one run is no fun.”
You know what’s even less fun than one run? Zero runs, which is what the Mets managed against Milwaukee starter Zack Greinke as well as relievers Tim Dillard and Jon Axford. Greinke pitched the first seven innings of the game and allowed only five hits with no walks and seven strikeouts. Dillard and Axford combined to pitch two innings with zero walks, one hit and three strikeouts.
David Wright and Mike Baxter each managed to go 2 for 2 with a double, but that was the only good news for New York.
The real story happened in the seventh inning. During the top of the frame, mop up man D.J. Carrasco let up a solo homer to Rickie Weeks that made the score 8-0 Milwaukee. The next batter, superstar left fielder Ryan Braun, was hit by a high, inside fastball and Carrasco was ejected. It wasn’t made clear that the Brewers were going to retaliate, but Mets manager Terry Collins took no chances and pinch hit for Wright in the bottom of the inning.
