The Mets saw their six-game winning streak come to an end on Friday night.
After being shutdown over the first seven innings, they battled back and scored four times in the top of the eighth before the Nationals responded and then walked things off on a hustle play from CJ Abrams.
It could’ve been a thrilling come-from-behind win, but ended up being a tough loss and there were some ugly moments along the way.
Washington was able to get on the board and snapped Kodai Senga’s scoreless streak with some help from a costly mental mistake by Brandon Nimmo with two outs in the bottom of the second.
The speedy Dylan Crews lined a single right at Nimmo, who forgot that the Mets had turned a double play on the play prior, so he threw the ball into third baseman Mark Vientos rather than the usual cutoff man.
Crews took advantage of this right away, advancing into scoring position — and José Tena made Nimmo pay just one pitcher later as he lined an RBI single right back to him in left.
“Just a stupid mental mistake,” Nimmo said. “I saw the double play happen the play before and for some reason in my head I thought someone was on first base when I got the ball beforehand and my intension was to go to third.
“As soon as I let the ball go I realized that no one was turning to go from second to third and I knew I had made a mistake right away. Hats off to Dylan taking advantage of my mistake — it cost us a run there, just a stupid mental mistake that can’t happen.”
Nimmo did make up for it later in the contest as he drove in the Mets’ first mark of the game with an infield single and then scored the go-ahead run on Mark Vientos’ bloop triple.
While it ultimately proved to not be enough as they suffered their eighth loss, the veteran was proud to see the team continue to fight after being held in check over the first seven innings.
“That’s our team,” he said. “We’re just going to keep going until the end. We hit a lot of balls hard today and had some tough luck outs early, but we just kept going and got a couple of balls that normally aren’t hits to fall — I’m proud that the guys fought and kept going because you never know what’s going to happen.”
The Mets saw their six-game winning streak come to an end on Friday night.
After being shutdown over the first seven innings, they battled back and scored four times in the top of the eighth before the Nationals responded and then walked things off on a hustle play from CJ Abrams.
It could’ve been a thrilling come-from-behind win, but ended up being a tough loss and there were some ugly moments along the way.
Washington was able to get on the board and snapped Kodai Senga’s scoreless streak with some help from a costly mental mistake by Brandon Nimmo with two outs in the bottom of the second.
The speedy Dylan Crews lined a single right at Nimmo, who forgot that the Mets had turned a double play on the play prior, so he threw the ball into third baseman Mark Vientos rather than the usual cutoff man.
Crews took advantage of this right away, advancing into scoring position — and José Tena made Nimmo pay just one pitcher later as he lined an RBI single right back to him in left.
“Just a stupid mental mistake,” Nimmo said. “I saw the double play happen the play before and for some reason in my head I thought someone was on first base when I got the ball beforehand and my intension was to go to third.
“As soon as I let the ball go I realized that no one was turning to go from second to third and I knew I had made a mistake right away. Hats off to Dylan taking advantage of my mistake — it cost us a run there, just a stupid mental mistake that can’t happen.”
Nimmo did make up for it later in the contest as he drove in the Mets’ first mark of the game with an infield single and then scored the go-ahead run on Mark Vientos’ bloop triple.
While it ultimately proved to not be enough as they suffered their eighth loss, the veteran was proud to see the team continue to fight after being held in check over the first seven innings.
“That’s our team,” he said. “We’re just going to keep going until the end. We hit a lot of balls hard today and had some tough luck outs early, but we just kept going and got a couple of balls that normally aren’t hits to fall — I’m proud that the guys fought and kept going because you never know what’s going to happen.”
