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04/28 21:11 CDT Brandon Nimmo ties Mets record with 9 RBIs in 19-5 rout of
Nationals
Brandon Nimmo ties Mets record with 9 RBIs in 19-5 rout of Nationals
By PATRICK STEVENS
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) --- Brandon Nimmo hit a grand slam and matched a franchise
record with nine RBIs, helping the New York Mets pound Washington Nationals
19-5 on Monday.
Nimmo also hit a three-run drive in his seventh career multihomer game. The
32-year-old outfielder had four hits and scored four times after beginning the
day with a .192 batting average.
New York earned a split of the four-game series. The Mets have won nine of 11
overall to improve to a major league-best 20-9.
Jeff McNeil and Mark Vientos also homered for New York, which finished with 21
hits. Vientos connected for a three-run drive against Washington infielder Amed
Rosario in the ninth.
James Wood and Nathaniel Lowe homered for Washington in the eighth.
The Mets had a 3-0 lead when Colin Poche replaced Nationals starter Trevor
Williams (1-3) with two on in the sixth. Nimmo greeted the left-hander by
ripping a 2-0 fastball deep to right-center.
An inning later, the Mets had the bases loaded when Nimmo sent Cole Henry's
fastball into the right-field seats for his second career grand slam.
Nimmo added a two-run double in the eighth to tie the franchise record for RBIs
set by Carlos Delgado in the first game of a doubleheader against the New York
Yankees on June 27, 2008.
McNeil, who made his season debut Friday after missing 25 games with a right
oblique strain, hit the first pitch of the fifth deep to right for his first
home run of the year.
Griffin Canning (4-1) pitched five innings of four-hit ball for New York. He
has won four consecutive starts for the first time in his six-season career.
Jos Urea earned his first save of the season. He allowed five runs in three
innings in his Mets debut.
Williams yielded five runs in a season-high 5 1/3 innings.
Francisco Lindor was hit twice by Cole Henry pitches in the seventh. He became
the ninth player to be hit twice in an inning and the first since the New York
Yankees' Brandon Moss on April 25, 2014, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Key moment Nimmo's sixth-inning shot broke open the game. It was his first homer since April 12. Key stat Nimmo was mired in a 7-for-47 (.149) slump with no extra-base hits in his previous 12 games before Monday. Up next New York left-hander David Peterson (1-1, 3.29 ERA) starts Tuesday in the opener of a three-game series against Arizona. Lefty MacKenzie Gore (2-3, 3.34 ERA) starts Tuesday as Washington opens a three-game series at Philadelphia. ___ AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb |
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