The first inning really set the tone for this game. They worked Blake Snell to the nub and the at-bats by Mark Canha and J.D. Davis were brilliant in working out walks from down 0-2 to force Snell to walk in the first run of the game to make it 1-0. (Davis was playing first base for the first time since he was an Astro and if he keeps raking then it’s going to make this lineup scary and it’s going to write Dom Smith’s ticket out of this organization, but that’s just a side note.) But speaking of a scary lineup, Eduardo Escobar followed that up with a two run single to make the score 3-0, and if he gets going then the rest of the National League had better start diving under tables ’cause Omar’s comin’. (Not Minaya.)<\/p>\n
The Mets would stretch their lead to 5-2 while Cookie Carrasco continued his excellence, going seven innings while saving the bullpen a bit in the process. He gave up two runs but struck out ten and … once again of utmost importance … didn’t walk anyone. The Padres bailed him out a few times as they struck out a ton on pitches outside of the strike zone. (Every one of those ten strikeouts was swinging.) But Carrasco’s stuff was confounding and he earned at least a part of every single one of them in his season high 105 pitches. <\/p>\n
Escobar gave Carrasco and the Mets some breathing room with a two run HR in the top of the 8th to make it 7-2, and it really gave me visions of really running away with this division if Escobar indeed remained scorching hot. But the baseball gods had to tell me to calm down a little bit as Luke Voit hit a three run HR off Drew Smith in the 8th to make it 7-5, and then Davis decided he wanted to end the inning by catching a flip from the pitcher barehanded in his first game at first base in four years. Okay baseball gods, I’ll do penance. I’ll listen to “Let’s Go Mets Go” and say 100 Ya Gotta Believes. The Mets won’t run away with the N.L. East by the All Star Break.<\/p>\n
\/crosses fingers behind back<\/p>\n
But as has been the Mets habit all season, they immediately get those three runs back and then some as Escobar got his fourth hit of the night. Do you remember when you used to get all those alerts on your phone when somebody was just a triple away from the cycle, and it was super annoying because there were a million of those alerts but nobody would actually get the cycle because nobody hit triples? Well, Escobar needed a triple for the cycle:<\/p>\n
\nEDUARDO ESCOBAR TRIPLES AND HAS HIT FOR THE CYCLE!!!!!! pic.twitter.com\/Y5qlDsTQpl<\/a><\/p>\n
— SNY (@SNYtv) June 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n