PHOENIX — Tylor Megill’s fastball was blazing, J.D. Davis smashed his first homer of the 12 months and the opportunistic Mets received one other ballgame by beating the sloppy Arizona Diamondbacks, 6-2, on Sunday.
The great occasions preserve rolling for these Mets, who took two of three towards Arizona for his or her fifth straight sequence win to begin the season, matching a franchise report set in 2018.
Mets 6, Diamondbacks 2 | Box Score | Play-by-Play
The N.L. East leaders depart the desert with a 12-5 report.
“We’re going to savor it,” Davis mentioned. “However we all know how this sport goes — it may well humble you actually fast. We’re comfortable, but it surely’s April. We’ve acquired to remain on the fuel pedal.”
It was one other good exhibiting for the Mets’ beginning pitching, which got here into the sport with an 8-2 report and a 2.44 E.R.A. Megill (3-0) gave up two runs and 4 hits over 6 ⅔ innings, strolling one. He struck out seven, at occasions overpowering the Diamondbacks with a fastball that sat within the 96-97 mile-per-hour vary all afternoon.
“I felt like the whole lot was working,” Megill mentioned. “Throwing plenty of strikes at present.”
The Diamondbacks didn’t do a lot on the plate, with one notable exception. Arizona tied it at 1 within the fourth on Christian Walker’s 467-foot drive to left-center that landed on the concourse behind the seats.
It was the second-longest homer of his profession, behind a 479-footer Walker hit off Clayton Kershaw in 2018.
Sasaki’s Streak Ends
TOKYO — Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki of the Chiba Lotte Marines is mortal, in any case.
After throwing an ideal sport on April 10 — the primary in Japanese baseball in 28 years — and eight good innings on April 17 earlier than being pulled after 102 pitches, Sasaki gave up successful on his first pitch Sunday towards the Orix Buffaloes.
The sport was performed on the Kyocera Dome in Osaka.
Shuhei Fukuda hit Sasaki’s first pitch, which ended a streak of 52 batters retired. Sasaki retired 27 within the good sport, one other 24 within the eight-inning outing, and in addition the final batter he confronted within the sport earlier than his good sport.
Within the good sport, and the eight innings of perfection, Sasaki had 33 strikeouts in going through 51 batters.
Sasaki labored 5 innings on Sunday in Chiba Lotte’s 6-3 win and was credited with the victory. He allowed two earned runs, walked three, hit two batters and gave up six hits. He had solely 4 strikeouts.
