Another Bad Loss to the Braves

The Mets were scratching and clawing their way to beat the worst team in baseball after last weekend’s humiliation at the hands of the Braves. 

They actually got production from Alejandro De Aza, who had to start in place of the injured Yoenis Cespedes. He  would go 2-4 with an RBI double while playing a good center field. 

Matt Harvey had a decent start allowing eight hits, two earned, and no walks with three strikeouts over six innings. His night would’ve gone a lot better had he not faced A.J. Pierzynski, who is proving to be the anti-Bryce Harper. Whereas Harper can’t buy a hit off Harvey, Pierzynski is 8-12 against Harvey including his 2-3 two RBI performance off Harvey tonight. 

Neil Walker was 2-2 with a walk, sac fly and two RBI. 

Michael Conforto had not one . . . 

. . . but two great defensive plays:

Travis d’Arnaud made that amazing block of home plate and was able to throw out a base stealer. 

None of it mattered as Addison Reed threw an 0-2 fastball over the heart of the plate to Adonis Garcia who hit an opposite field home run to give the Braves a 4-3 lead. 

Not having Cespedes is not an excuse. The Braves are that bad even with them winning seven of their last eight. Like all three games last weekend, this was an inexcusable loss.  The Mets have now lost four in a row to a Braves team they should not have lost four games in total to this year.  

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