Bohm, Realmuto hit 3-run homers in rout
PHILADELPHIA — Alec Bohm and J.T. Realmuto each hit a threerun homer, Rhys Hoskins had a solo shot and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the New York Mets 8-2 on Wednesday.
The Phillies took two of three from their division rivals after opening the season with a three-game sweep of three-time defending NL East champion Atlanta.
Phillies ace Aaron Nola lasted only four innings, pitching out of trouble the final two. He allowed one run and six hits, striking out five.
“He had to grind through,” Phillies manager Joe Girardi said. “His location and stuff wasn’t sharp but he found a way to get through four innings against a good lineup giving up only one run. That’s the mark of a good pitcher.”
Connor Brogdon (3-0) got five outs to earn his third win in six games. Three relievers pitched the final 3 ⅓ innings.
New York starter David Peterson (0-1) surrendered six runs and seven hits in four innings.
The Mets had their season- opening series at Washington wiped out because of a coronavirus outbreak amongthe Nationals.
“I don’t think that really hurt us,” Mets manager Luis Rojas said of the layoff. “I thought that we prepared well to come into this series and compete. ... We could’ve won this series. There’s no excuse. We go home1-2.”
Hoskins launched an opposite-field drive just over the rightfield wall in the first. Bryce Harper lined the next pitch off the fence for a double. After Realmuto walked, B ohm blasted a fast ball deep into the left-center field seats for a 4-0lead.
Pete Alonso’s RBI single in the third cut it to 4-1 but Nola escaped further damage by striking out Dominic Smith and Jonathan Villar to leave runners on first and third.
Nola got out of another jamin the fourth, freezing Michael Conforto with a backdoor curve to leave the bases loaded. Before Conforto came up, Francisco Lindor took an 0-2 curve off his foot after ripping a liner down the right-field line that just hooked foul.
Realmuto connected on the first pitch thrown by reliever Jacob Barnes in the fifth, sending an op posite-fields hot out to right to make it 7-1.
The Phillies hit two homer sin the first five games before going deep three times against the Mets.
“I think the biggest thing is putting traffic on base and if you do that you’re going to score runs,” Girardi said. “Home runs do it quickly but on base is important for me.”
Lindor, the four-time All-Star shortstop acquired from Cleveland in the offseason and signed to ateam-record, $341million, 10-year contract extension last week, was 2 for 11 with one RBI in his first series with the Mets.
He was taunted by Philly fans with chants of “overrated” in his last at-bat.
Nationals series rescheduled:
The postponed season-opening series between the Washington Nationals and New York Mets was rescheduled Wednesday, with two of the games movedto June and the other to September.
A coronavirus outbreak on the Nationals prompted Major League Baseball to scrap the games originally slated to be played in Washington on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday of last week.
Instead, MLB announced Wednesday, one game will be part of a split doubleheader at 1:05 p.m. and 6:05 p.m. on June 19; another will beat7:05p.m. onJune28, which had been an off day for both teams; and the last will be Sept. 4 as part of a double header at 1:05 p.m. and 6:05 p.m.
Late Tuesday
Mets 8, Phillies 4: Marcus Stroman tossed six sharp innings in his first start since 2019, Dominic Smith and Pete Alonso each hit a two-run homer and the Mets got their first win of the year.
Didi Gregorius hit a solo homer for Philadelphia, which sought its first 5-0 start since 1915. Stroman (1-0) allowed one run and three hits before giving way to a bullpen that wasted Jacob deGrom’s masterful performance a night earlier. He got 15 of his 18 outs on grounders.