After a winning road trip, the New York Mets returned to Citi Field and began their homestand with a bitter, 2-1, 13-inning loss to San Francisco Monday night.
The Giants scored the go-ahead run with two outs in the 13th when Brandon Crawford's pop-up was knocked out of Amed Rosario's glove as Dominic Smith collided with him in shallow left field.
The Mets have played five games at home against San Francisco that went longer than 13 innings and all of them took place at Shea Stadium in the 1960's:
5/31/64 (G2) Giants 8 Mets 6 23 innings
5/13/66 Giants 5 Mets 4 17 innings
8/19/68 Giants 1 Mets 0 17 innings
8/4/64 Giants 4 Mets 3 14 innings
8/19/69 Mets 1 Giants 0 14 innings
The Mets completed their 11-game road trip at 7-4, with an 8-2 win over the Phillies Sunday night in the Little League Classic at BB&T Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
New York improved to 8-5 against Philadelphia this season and since the beginning of 2014, the Mets are now 59-30 against the Phillies and have outscored them 484-339.
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According to Fangraphs.com, the 59 wins vs. the Phils ties the Mets with the Dodgers (against the Padres) for the most wins against a single opponent during that time span.
Jacob deGrom bolstered his Cy Young candidacy with his third career complete game as the Mets defeated Philadelphia, 3-1, Saturday afternoon Bank Park.
DeGrom improved to 8-7, striking out nine and allowing seven hits with no walks on 99 pitches.
Here is the list of pitchers who have thrown at least three complete games for the Mets since 2005:
Johan Santana 9
R.A. Dickey 8
Pedro Martinez 4
Mike Pelfrey 4
Tom Glavine 3
Jon Niese 3
Dillon Gee 3
Jacob deGrom 3
DeGrom surpassed the 200-strikeout mark for the third time in his career Saturday.
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Only three other Mets pitchers have had at least three seasons with 200 or more strikeouts:
Tom Seaver 9
David Cone 4
Dwight Gooden 4
Jacob deGrom 3
The Mets lost to the Phillies, 4-2, Friday night in Philadelphia.
Noah Syndergaard took the loss, allowing a season-high four runs on eight hits in 5 and 2/3 innings.
Syndergaard also allowed five stolen bases to push him into a tie with Steven Matz for the most allowed in the majors this year with 25.
Neither Syndergaard nor Matz should make a run at this list, the most steals allowed against a Mets pitcher in a single season:
60 Dwight Gooden 1990
56 Dwight Gooden 1988
50 Tom Seaver 1983
48 Noah Syndergaard 2016
47 Dwight Gooden 1984
The Mets lost the nitecap of Thursday's doubleheader, 9-6, to the Philies.
Amed Rosario doubled twice, drove in a run, walked and scored twice in the loss, going 6-for-11 with two doubles, a homer, four RBIs and seven runs in the doubleheader.
Michael Conforto followed up his three-hit effort in the opener with three more hits, driving in four runs, to finish the two games 6-for-12 with a homer, a double, five RBIs and three runs scored.
The Mets set a franchise record for runs and hits as they beat the Phillies, 24-4, in the first game of Thursday's doubleheader at Citizens Bank Park.
Their 20-run margin of victory was also the largest in club history, topping the previous club record of 23 runs against the Cubs back on August 16th, 1987 at Wrigley Field.
Coupled with the 16 runs the previous night at Baltimore, the 40 runs were the most scored by the Mets in consecutive games in club history.
The Mets scored 34 runs over a two-game stretch, beating the Cubs 19-8 and 15-10 in Chicago back on June 12th and 13th, 1990.
Jose Bautista drove in a career-high seven runs, including a grand slam, after replacing the injured Brandon Nimmo.
Bautista became the first player to have seven RBIs in a game he did not start since John Mayberry of the Royals back on June 26th, 1978.
The Mets made it a split of the two-game series against the Orioles with a 16-5 victory.
Brandon Nimmo went a career-best 5-for-5 with two doubles, three RBI's and two runs scored.
The last Mets hitter to have at least five hits in a game was Wilmer Flores, who went 6-for-6 with two homers in a 14-3 win over the Cubs on July 3rd, 2016.
Kevin Plawecki's first career grand slam capped the Mets' nine-run sixth inning.
The last Mets catcher to hit a grand slam prior to Plawecki was Taylor Teagarden, who connected with the bases full in his Mets' debut vs. the Brewers back on June 10th, 2014 at Citi Field.
The Mets lost the opener of the two-game set with Baltimore, 6-3, at Camden Yards Tuesday night.
Jason Vargas allowed two runs in six innings against the Orioles in his longest outing of the season.
Vargas had thrown 53 and 1/3 innings through last Tuesday night's start. The only other Mets pitchers to have fewer than 70 innings pitched with at least 13 starts in a season were Aaron Heilman in 2003 (65 & 1/3) and Steven Matz last season (66 & 2/3).
Happy Recap: Road-sario. Amed Rosario went 17-for-45 (.378) with 10 runs scored and 11 RBI's on the road trip.
Nine Miles of Rough Road: Not Scoring at Home. The Mets have scored 324 runs away from Citi Field, the 5th most in the majors but only 199 at home, the fewest in MLB.
