World Series Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto and rookie Nolan McLean on Tuesday dueled through seven innings, with Kyle Tucker singling in the go-ahead run in the eighth for the Los Angeles Dodgers to edge the Mets 2-1, sending New York to their seventh straight loss.
The Mets have been outscored 36-10 during their skid, dropping into the National League East cellar at 7-11.
Francisco Lindor snapped the team’s streak of 20 scoreless innings with a leadoff home run — his first RBI of the season — against Yamamoto, helping the Mets avoid three consecutive shutouts for the first time since 1992.
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Yamamoto promptly set down the next 20 batters in a row.
With their best hitter, Juan Soto, sidelined with a calf injury, the rest of the Mets lineup is pressing to generate offense.
Trailing by a run in the ninth, the Mets got overly aggressive at the plate and Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia struck out the side to end the game for his second save.
Tucker’s two-strike hit to left off reliever Brooks Raley (0-1) scored pinch-hitter Miguel Rojas, who walked and took second on pinch-hitter Santiago Espinal’s sacrifice.
Shohei Ohtani extended his streak of reaching base to 48 consecutive games with an intentional walk by Raley in the eighth. He finished 0 for 3.
Yamamoto, a 27-year-old right-hander, allowed one run and four hits, throwing 104 pitches in 7-2/3 innings. He struck out seven and walked one.
In Minneapolis, Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran directed an obscene gesture toward a fan at Target Field as he returned to the dugout after a fifth-inning groundout in Boston’s 6-0 loss to the Minnesota Twins.
Duran, who has spoken about his past struggles with mental health, said a fan made a personal comment that crossed the line.
“Somebody just told me to kill myself,” Duran said. “I’m used to it at this point, you know? I mean, shit happens. I mean, I’m gonna flip somebody off if they say something to me, but it is what it is. I shouldn’t react like that, but that kind of stuff is still kind of triggering.”
Duran discussed bouts with severe depression and a suicide attempt in a Netflix series that debuted last year.
“Honestly, it’s my fault for talking about my mental health, because I kind of brought in the haters. So I’ve just got to get used to it,” Duran said. “I was just trying to hold it in and not really bring that up to the team. I mean, we’re trying to win a game. I shouldn’t even bring that up to anybody... It just happens.”
In Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Brewers’ Trevor Megill was booed by the American Family Field crowd while allowing three runs in the ninth inning of a 9-7, 10-innng loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.
The outing left Megill, an All-Star last season, with a 14.40 earned-run average.
Manager Pat Murphy afterward said that he might consider using someone else in the ninth inning, but did not want to decide that issue immediately after such an emotional loss, adding that Megill should not be getting booed, particularly after the way the veteran right-hander performed last year.
Megill came back from a late-season arm injury and earned the save in Milwaukee’s Game 5 victory over the Chicago Cubs in the National League Division Series.
“These aren’t machines out there,” Murphy said. “These are people. I thought that was in poor taste, but I’ve done things in poor taste, too.”
Elsewhere, the Cincinnati Reds toppled the San Francisco Giants 2-1, the Detroit Tigers pipped the Kansas City Royals 2-1, the Arizona Diamondbacks bit the Baltimore Orioles 4-3, the Cubs dominated the Philadelphia Phillies 10-4, the Washington Nationals survived the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-4, the Los Angeles Angles shutdown the New York Yankees 7-1, the Atlanta Braves reeled in the Miami Marlins 6-5, the San Diego Padres sank the Seattle Mariners 4-1 and the Athletics outplayed the Texas Rangers 2-1.
Additional reporting by staff writer
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