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Dan Uggla homered twice off Mets starter Oliver Perez Friday as the Florida Marlins topped New York 7-2.
It was another Bad Ollie outing, with Perez giving up 7 earned runs on nine hits and three walks over 3 1/3 innings. Four of those hits were homers, with Chris Coughlan and Gaby Sanchez getting the other two.
Perez lost his no-hitter in the first inning on a Hanley Ramirez single, advancing our NoNoHitters.com count to 7,680 New York Mets games with no no-no.
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The Giants’ Aaron Rowand hit an eighth-inning two-run homer off Jenrry Mejía Sunday to give San Francisco a 6-5 victory, handing the Mets their first home loss since April 21.
Mets starter Oliver Perez lost his no-hitter in the second inning when Nate Schierholtz blooped a single into left center field, advancing our NonoHitters.com count to 7,675 New York Mets games without a no-no.
But hits were the least of Ollie’s problems. Perez walked seven batters and hit another one over 3 1/3 innings before being pulled, and was responsible for four runs, three of them earned.
Raul Valdes gave the Mets a chance with 3 2/3 innings of scoreless relief and the Mets chipped away at the Giants and entered the eighth inning with a 5-4 lead.
The last time the Mets lost at Citi Field was an April 21 9-3 loss to the Chicago Cubs.
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Lance Nix hit a 11th-inning pinch-hit home run to lead the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-2 win over the New York Mets Monday night.
The ball, served up by Manny Acosta, dropped in the front row of the stands behind right-center field, just out of reach of a leaping Jeff Francoeur.
Mets starter Oliver Perez lost his no-hitter on the opening batter when Drew Stubbs lead off the game with a home run, advancing our NoNoHitters.com count up to 7,670 New York Mets games without a no-no.
It marked the 106th time a Mets opponent began a game with a dinger and the 1,754th Mets game that began with a lead-off hit by the opponent. It’s all documented on our expanded No-hitters killed by first at bat page, which shows that Perez has moved past Maine for the second most lead-off hits given up among the Mets’ active starters – Perez has given up 17 and Maine 16, both far behind Pelfrey with 23.
Perez in his no-decision threw a decent six innings, giving up a pair of earned runs on six hits and four walks.
The Mets’ runs came on a Francoeur single and a Jose Reyes double.
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The Mets could manage just a single hit in the first five innings Wednesday in a 9-3 loss to the Chicago Cubs at Citi Field.
That one hit was a Rod Barajas homer, but the Cubs managed single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings off Mets’ starter Oliver Perez before Alfonso Soriano blew the game open with a two-run homer off Manny Acosta in the seventh.
Perez lost his no-hitter in the first inning on a Derek Lee single, advancing our NoNoHitters.com count to 7,659 New York Mets games without a no-no.
Yankees starter Phil Hughes, on the other hand, took a no-hitter into the eighth inning before losing it on a comebacker that he lost sight of.
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The Mets overcame a 4-1 grand-slam deficit and got the ninth-inning tying run in scoring position Friday, but the comeback fell short as the St. Louis Cardinals beat New York 4-3.
Jeff Francoeur led off the ninth with a single and Gary Matthews Jr. pulled a one-out first-pitch fastball to right for a double, giving the Mets runners at second and third. Frank Catalanotto followed with his first hit as a Met, and the bloop single to left scored Francoeur. Matthews then scored on a Jose Reyes ground-out, but Luis Castillo grounded out to the game.
Mets starter Oliver Perez threw a great start of 6 1/3 innings of four-hit ball, the first of which was a lead-off Felipe Lopez single to advance our NoNoHitters.com count to 7,654 games without a no-hitter.
Mets’ skipper Jerry Manuel pulled Perez after he gave up an infield single in the seventh and Joe Mather sacrificed him over to second, opting for reliever Fernando Nieve.
Nieve hit Scott Schumaker in the foot with an 0-2 pitch and walked Matt Holliday after getting him to an 0-2 count before handing the ball to rookie southpaw Raul Valdes.
Valdes served up a 2-1 hanging curve to Lopez, who slammed the pitch over the left-field fence for a grand slam.
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Willy Tavares’s four RBI day, a seven-strikeout relief effort by Washington’s Tyler Clippard and a ninth-inning diving catch by Willie Harris gave the Nationals to a 4-3 win over the New York Mets at Citi Field on Saturday.
Rod Barajas lined what appeared to be a bases-loaded, two-out game-winning hit in the ninth, but Harris, the left fielder, made an incredible diving catch to end the comeback effort and the game.
Mets starter Oliver Perez was a bit inconsistent, giving up four runs on four hits and four walks over 5 2/3 innings, while striking out six. He retired the side in the first and third innings, but yielded two runs in both the second and fourth innings.
Perez lost his no-hitter in the second on a Josh Willingham single, bumping our NoNoHitters.com count to 7,649 New York Mets games without a no-no. Willy Taveras drove in Willigham and Pudge Rodriguez that inning with a two-RBI triple to give the Nationals a 2-0 lead.
The Mets got both runs back in the bottom half of the inning on RBIs from the eighth and ninth spots, with Henry Blanco driving in Jason Bay with a sacrifice fly, and Perez helping his cause with an RBI single.
Taveras got his third and fourth RBIs on the day with a fourth inning single, and the Mets got one back in the fifth when Fernando Tatis scored Bay with an RBI single.
The Mets also got close to tying the game was in the eighth, when Luis Castillo led off with a slow-rolling single to right and Fernando Tatis moved him over to second with a sacrifice bunt. But Clippard fanned Frank Catalanotto and Angel Pagan to keep the one-run lead that Nats starter Jon Lannan built.
Jose Reyes led off the ninth with a line-drive single up the middle off closer Matt Capps, Alex Cora sacrificed him over and David Wright drew a walk, but Bay struck out on three pitches. Jeff Francoeur then drew a walk to load the bases before Barajas was robbed of his walk-off celebration.
The Mets left 12 runners on base.
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Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez gave up ninth-inning grand slam to Everth Cabrera Friday night, handing the San Diego Padres a 6-2 win at Petco Park.
K-Rod walked Kyle Blanks to start the inning, then gave up a Will Venable double to tie the game. After Rodriguez issued Henry Blanco a base-on-balls, he intentionally walked O. Salazar to load the bases for Cabrera’s walk-off slam.
That blew a great start by Oliver Perez, who gave up just a single run on two hits and two walks in 6 1/3 innings of work. He struck out seven batters, but lost his no-hitter in the third inning on a Blanco double, advancing our NoNoHitters.com count to 7,591 New York Mets games without a no-hitter.
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The Braves’ bullpen outperformed the Mets staff and Chipper Jones knocked in the go-ahead run Thursday night for a 5-3 win at Turner Field.
Starter Oliver Perez lost his no-hitter in the second inning when Yunel Escobar blasted a homer to left, making it 7,570 New York Mets games without a no-no. Garret Anderson then stepped to the plate and launched a deep liner to right, just clearing the foul pole for back-to-back homers that gave the Braves a 2-0 lead.
The Mets fought back in the fourth after Luis Castillo reached base on a weakly hit single up the middle that should have been fielded by Martin Prado. David Wright advanced Castillo to third with a single on a hit-and-run play, and Sheffield scored him on what should double-play ball that, too, was mishandled by Prado. Wright scored on a Jeff Francoeur groundout, and Daniel Murphy drove in Sheffield with a double to give the Mets a 3-2 lead.
But those would be all the runs the Mets could muster, and the Braves tied the game in the bottom half of the inning when Brian McCann scored on a Matt Diaz double to left, just sneaking in under Brian Schneider’s tag.
Perez again limited his hits over his six innings of work, yielding just five, but again showed control issues by issuing four walks. He left with the game tied at 3.
Pedro Feliciano walked what would turn out to be the go ahead run in the seventh by walking pinch-hitter Brooks Conrad, and Bobby Parnell let him score with back-to-back singles by Prado and Chipper Jones.
Atlanta added an insurance run in the eighth when pinch-hitter Greg Norton singled home pinch-runner Ryan Church.
The Braves’ bullpen shut down the Mets in the latter innings.
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Oliver Perez made his return to the starting rotation and the Mets snapped a four-game slide Wednesday night with a 5-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers at Citi Field.
Perez walked 7 in five innings worth of work but managed to give up just two earned runs on four hits for the win. He lost his no-hitter in the first inning when Mark Loretta hit an RBI single up the middle, advancing our NoNoHitters.com count to 7,565 New York Mets games without a no-no.
The Mets rallied for three runs in the third during a rally kicked off with a Daniel Murphy double and a David Wright single.
Francisco Rodriguez got the save despite giving up a ninth-inning solo homer to Manny Ramirez.
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Sean Green issued a walk-off walk to Shane Victorino in the bottom of the 10th inning to waste a Mets comeback and hand the Philadelphia Phillies a 6-5 win Saturday.
The Mets overcame another shaky start from Oliver Perez, but again couldn’t score late-inning runs to win a game.
Perez was sent to the clubhouse in the third after issuing a bases-loaded walk to opposing pitcher Jamie Moyer, his sixth base on balls during a 2 1/3-inning, four-run, 77-pitch debacle. Any chance of a no-hitter disappeared immediately when Victorino led off the bottom of the first with a triple, making it 7,505 New York Mets games without a no-no.
It was the 33rd time a Mets no-hitter was broken up by a leadoff triple, and the 923rd time the leadoff hitter killed a Mets no-no. (Our No-hitters killed by first at bat page has more details than you care to know about these games.)
Reliever Ken Takahashi entered with the bases loaded in the third and bailed out Perez with a double-play, then followed with two solid innings to give the Mets a chance to catch up.
The Mets took the lead during a two-out sixth-inning rally sparked by the bottom of the order. After tying the game on back-to-back homers by Daniel Murphy and Ramon Castro, Alex Cora followed with a pinch-hit triple, the team’s 12th three-bagger of the young season. After Reyes drew a walk, Luis Castillo knocked in Cora to give the Mets a 5-4 lead.
Unfortunately, Raul Ibanez tagged Pedro Feliciano for a solo shot to tie the game in the bottom of the inning to make it 5-5.
The Mets got a runner in scoring position in the top of the eighth and Carlos Beltran did his job with a two-out single, but Jayson Werth threw Omir Santos out at the plate. Beltran hit into a double-play with runners on first and second to end the top of the tenth.
What did my Fox affiliate show? Cleveland at Detroit. Thanks.
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