Phillies 'Small Ball' And Great Pitching Push Mets' Losing Streak To 5 Games

Phillies 3 Mets 0 (Citi Field, Flushing, N.Y,)

Mets record: 69-84

Mets streak: Lost 5

WP - Aaron Nola (7-10)

LP - Nolan McLean (11-10)

SV - Jhoan Duran (32)

Seat on the Korner: Aaron Nola

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Aaron Nola controlled this game from the time he came in until he was done, with only 81 pitches thrown in seven innings pitched.

Nola took a no-hitter into the sixth inning, where he walked Brett Baty and then gave up a single to fearless rookie Nick Morabito.

Nola also showed off his pick-off move against Juan Soto in the first inning. After walking Soto, Nola quickly flipped the script on the slugger by baiting him to talk a long lead, then throwing over to first base to pick him off by about five feet.

The Mets ran into a hot Nola, who has a 2.10 ERA in his past 10 games.

Need to Know

• Carlos Forever: On Saturday, the New York Mets will induct Carlos Beltrán

  into the team's Hall of Fame as well as retire his uniform number... Beltrán

  will become the ninth player in franchise history to have his number retired

  by the Mets.

  
  

• Coming into the game, Nolan McLean had completed at least 6.0 innings in 13 of his last 15 starts, and he has allowed two or fewer earned runs in 15 of his last 18 starts.

  
  

• A.J. Ewing became one of eight Mets in franchise history to record 100 career hits at 22 years old and 36 days or younger.

  
  

• Rookie Success: Ewing and Carson Benge became the sixth pair

  of Mets rookie teammates to record 10+ home runs in a season, joining

  Ron Hunt and Tim Harkness in 1963, Jeromy Burnitz and Ryan Thompson in

  1993, Ty Wigginton and Jason Phillips in 2003, Eric Valent and David Wright in 2004 and Víctor Díaz in 2005.

  
  

• Coming into the game, Nolan McLean had 69 strikeouts looking this year, the most in the majors in either of the past 2 seasons.

Turning Point

In the top of the 5th with two outs and the bases loaded, Bryce Harper hit a sharp ground ball to Lindor. Lindor went to his left and fielded the ball, tossed it quickly to Baty, who was a little late to the bag. Trey Turner seemed to get his hand on the bag a split second before Baty stepped on the bag.

The umpire originally called Turner out at second, but the Philadelphia Phillies challenged the call and ended up winning it.

Brandon Marsh scored on the play, giving them a 1-0 lead, and the Phillies cruised to victory.

Three Keys

Scary Injury For Young

In the top of the 6th inning, Justin Crawford chopped a ground ball toward first base. Nolan McLean hustled off the mound to try to get to the ball. Jared Young fielded the ball and tried to step on 1st base. McLean then tried to hurdle Young and didn't make it all the way over, kneeing Young in the side of the head and apparently knocking him out cold.

Young stayed down with his face in the dirt, motionless. The medical staff came out and attended to him, and eventually he was carried out on a stretcher.

Young gave a thumbs up as he was being carted off the field.

Early medical reports say that Young has feeling in his extremities.

McLean in control

Nolan McLean had another outstanding outing against the powerhouse lineup of the Phillies.

The rookie finished the game pitching six full innings, allowing only one run on seven hits, while walking three batters and striking out five.

Small Ball

All three Phillies runs were manufactured by grounders, bunts, and sacrifice flies.

Phillies Manager Don Mattingly outdueled his counterpart by moving runners and cashing in on fly balls.

The Phillies' first run came on that grounder to Lindor (mentioned above in the turning point of the game).

The next two runs were produced by fly balls to with runners on third and one out.

When your team isn't crushing the ball, you can still score at the major league level, the Phillies proved.