Philadelphia An error in shooting the third baseman for Mets, Luis Guillorme, enabled them to score the runs and the Philadelphia Phillies picked up a cluster of five touchdowns in the eighth inning to come from behind, beating Nueva on Monday, 5 -3. York after Jacob deGrom cuffed them for six episodes.
Francisco Lindor went 4-1 with a single and a walk in his debut for the Mets, which was postponed after the three-game series against Washington was canceled due to an outbreak of the coronavirus in the Nationals.
José Alvarado knocked out Pete Alonso to the rightfield fence with runners on the corners for the last out and his first save.
DeGrom was spectacular, knocking out seven enemies and allowing three hits. The two-time National League Cy Young Award winner left the game after 77 pitches, despite manager Luis Rojas saying before the game that his limit was 100. DeGrom’s fastball averaged 99 miles per hour and it went to 102.
Miguel Castro retired the seventh for the Mets, but newcomer Trevor May (0-1) barely got one out in the eighth inning.
Pinch-hitter Brad Miller singled, Andrew McCutchen walked and Rhys Hoskins batted to load the bases. Lefthanded Aaron Loup came in and hit Bryce Harper with a curveball to hit a run. JT Realmuto singled to the left to tie the score.
Alex Bohm followed with a comfortable pitch to Guillorme, who came in as a substitute for the defense. But his shot at the plate went wide of catcher James McCann’s glove. Two runs came into play and gave the Phillies a 4-2 lead. The sacrifice fly by Didi Gregorius made it 5-2.
Connor Brogdon (2-0) worked the eighth inning to win and Alvarado gave up an RBI-single to Michael Conforto in the ninth before Alonso was eliminated for the third out.
For the Phillies, Jean Segura 4-0.
For the Mets, Puerto Rican Lindor 4-1. The Dominican Jonathan Villar 1-0.
Good departure from José de León
Cincinnati. Nick Castellanos broke the tie with a homerun in the third inning-hours after deciding to appeal a two-game suspension for participating in a brawl, and the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-3 on Monday-evening.
Puerto Rican José De León tied the score with nine strikeouts and gave up two runs, three hits and two walks in five innings to help the Reds secure their third consecutive victory.
Mike Moustakas tied the game to 2 in the fifth with his first homerun of the season, a solo hit to the right off Luis Oviedo. Moustakas also doubled and scored in the eighth inning. Sean Doolittle (1-0) took the victory by striking out two batters and retiring the seventh inning in a row, and Amir Garrett gave up one run before completing his first save.
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Phillip Evans and Colin Moran blew De León’s wall in the first inning.
Castellanos homered off Sam Howard (0-1) for his third homerun of the season. He got up to watch the hit before starting his trot from the batter’s box, threw his bat at the dugout and yelled at his teammates on the way to the initials.
Castellanos was sanctioned by the Major Leagues on Monday for initiating a brawl with the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday when the outfielder gestured while standing over pitcher Jake Woodford shortly after swiping himself against the plate. Woodford had hit Castellanos with a pitch just before. His suspension will be suspended until an appeal hearing is held.
The Reds offense has scored 30 points in the first four games of the season, good for 27 points in the first three games of a season, for the first time since 1976.
The Reds-pitchers limited the Pirates to only one basehit in the seven hiatus innings until Bryan Reynolds homered in the ninth inning.
For the Reds, Aristides Aquino 2-1 with an RBI. Venezuelan Eugenio Suárez 4-0. The Puerto Rican De León 2-1 with a towed.
Before the Pirates, the Dominicans were Erik González 4-0; Gregory Polanco 4-0; Wilmer Difo 1-0.
Javier Báez’s first homerun
Chicago. Willson Contreras, Javier Báez and David Bote blew the wall on a four-run offense in the fourth inning to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 5-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday-evening.
Trevor Williams pitched perfectly until Omar Narvaez led off the sixth inning with a single – Narvaez also broke a no-hitter on Saturday in the eighth inning against Minnesota. The Venezuelan added a three-touchdown homer in the seventh inning.
Williams (1-0) made his Cubs debut after five seasons with Pittsburgh. He worked through the seventh inning and gave up two touchdowns, two hits and two walks with six strikeouts.
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Alec Mills, who held Milwaukee hitless as a starter last September, retired the ninth for his first save.
Brett Anderson (0-1) gave up all of Chicago’s homeruns and gave up four runs and four hits in five innings in which he eliminated four enemies.
Neither team got runners on base until the bottom of the fourth, when Ian Happ traded a walk for Anderson. Contreras followed with a homerun just over the midfield fence. Báez also hit a homerun between right and midfield and Bote followed him with a plank across midfield.
For the Cubs, the Venezuelan Contreras 3-1 with two RBI’s and one scored. Puerto Rican Baez 3-1 with one produced and one scored.
For the Brewers, the Venezuelans were Narváez 3-2 with three RBI’s and one scored; Orlando Arcia 3-1; Avisaíl García 4-1 with a run scored. The Mexican Luis Urías 4-0.