The Nationals give up runs right before and right after a long rain delay in the eighth inning of a 2-1 loss to the Mets.
Kyle Finnegan had just completed a jog from the bullpen toward Manager Dave Martinez when lightning bolts flashed in the distance. Players went to respective dugouts. The bases were loaded after Mason Thompson allowed three hits and hit a batter en route to giving up the tying run. There was one out. It was perhaps the best cliffhanger imaginable.
“Trying to get a ground ball there or something shallow,” Finnegan said. “He got just enough on it. Looking back at it, I thought it was a good pitch. He just made a play for his team and got it out there enough to score the run.” To beat Gray, the Mets stacked their lineup with seven lefties. And to shut down the Mets, Gray relied heavily early on his cutter — the pitch he added in the offseason to get lefties out instead of relying so heavily on his four-seam fastball. He threw 44 pitches in the first two innings, 23 of which were cutters. But he went with a four-seam fastball to get Brandon Nimmo to pop out with the bases loaded to end the second inning.
Gray lowered his ERA to 3.27 in the process and allowed just two hits — as did Mets starter Kodai Senga. Senga kept the Nationals off balance with his forkball, but the Nationals didn’t need many hits to score their lone run in the sixth inning.CJ Abrams walked and Jeimer Candelario reached because of catcher’s interference before Joey Meneses singled to load the bases for Keibert Ruiz.
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