Mets win 5th straight with rout of Nats
This is what a truly great team looks like. The Mets beat the brakes off the Washington Nationals, a wildly inferior team, for the second night in a row. There was no playing down to the competition, no going through the motions as they hosted a last-place squad, and no drama whatsoever. The Mets won 10-0 on Tuesday, the second night in a row that they cleared the double-digit run hurdle.
When Eduardo Escobar’s sixth inning homer supplied the ninth and tenth runs, fans in the upper deck removed their shirts and waved them around in a manner that would make Petey Pablo proud. This team is finally playing at a level — and consistently, at that — that their fans have been clamoring for. Each run of the Nationals series, during which the Mets have outscored the woeful Washington team 23-5, has been a ruthless display of what happens when talented, motivated players are all pulling on the same rope.
The Mets haven’t just been beating the Nationals, they’ve been embarrassing them. In their nine games against D.C. this season, the Mets have seven wins and have outscored their division rivals 53-24. On Tuesday they racked up 17 hits and did not relent once the Nationals went to their bullpen. Another sign of a truly great, hungry team, the Mets do not take their foot off the gas once they’ve pulled away.
Patrick Corbin got the ball for the Nats and turned in another clunker.
Starling Marte started it off for the Mets with a two-run blast in the first. Then Luis Guillorme slapped a two-out single for two more runs in the third. Corbin got knocked out of the game in the fifth inning, but not after three more runs he was responsible for had glided home.
Marte and Guillorme have both been on a tear . Coming into the game, Marte was hitting .347 in May with three homers, seven doubles and two triples in 22 games. Guillorme came into Tuesday’s game having made 61 plate appearances in the month of May, reaching base in 33 of them. When the duo stood up from the table on Tuesday after feasting on the Nationals, they were a combined 3-for-10 with four RBI.
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