Washington 7, NY Mets 6
When: 3:05 PM ET, Saturday, April 20, 2013
Where: Citi Field, New York, New York
Temperature:
54°
Umpires:
Home -
Gerry Davis, 1B -
Mark Carlson, 2B -
Mike Muchlinski, 3B -
Brian Knight
Attendance:
24325
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Nationals 7, Mets 6: Bryce Harper belted two home runs – including a go-ahead solo shot in the eighth – and scored three times as visiting Washington edged New York.
Harper, who posted his second multi-homer game of the season, went 3-for-3 with three RBIs. Adam LaRoche and Ian Desmond also homered for the Nationals to match the Mets' four-homer effort in Friday’s 7-1 setback.
John Buck tied the game at 6 with an RBI double down the left-field line in the seventh, but Harper crushed Josh Edgin’s first-pitch fastball to lead off the eighth and give Washington its third lead of the game. Edgin (0-1) struck out three of the five batters he faced.
Tyler Clippard (1-0) recorded the final out of the seventh and worked around a walk in the eighth before giving way to Rafael Soriano, who worked around a two-out walk to David Wright in the ninth for his sixth save in seven chances.
Desmond and Harper staked the Nationals to an early 3-0 lead with a solo and two-run homer, respectively, before New York tagged Gio Gonzalez for five runs in the fourth. Collin Cowgill and Justin Turner each had two-out, two-run singles and Daniel Murphy capped the frame with an RBI single.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Harper has four multi-homer games in his 155-game major-league career. He trails only Hall of Famer Mel Ott for the most such games by a player before his 21st birthday. … The Mets scored all of their runs with two outs. … Nationals 2B Danny Espinosa returned to the lineup after missing the last four games with a bruised right forearm. He went 1-for-4 and scored a run.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Washington |
|
NY Mets |
|
Gio Gonzalez
|
Player |
Jeremy Hefner
|
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
|
4.0 |
IP |
4.0 |
|
5 |
Strikeouts |
2 |
|
5 |
Hits |
4 |
|
11.25 |
ERA |
6.75 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Washington
|
7 |
4 |
22 |
.219 |
5 |
7 |
7 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
| NY Mets
|
7 |
0 |
10 |
.206 |
14 |
12 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
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