July 3, 2022 - Game 77
W - Carlos Carrasco (9-4)
L - Trevor Williams (4-4)
S - Edwin Diaz (18)
HR: TEX: Heim (12); NYM: Marte (9), Escobar (9)
Time of Game: 2:57
Game Recap
The Rangers and Mets concluded their three-game series at Citi Field on Sunday. Texas sent out Jon Gray coming off a couple of good outings his last few times out. Gray is coming off a June where he threw 37.2 innings (six starts) and allowed ten runs. The other key is Jon struck out forty-four, which was twenty more than May. The Mets sent out Carlos Carrasco coming off two struggling outings against the Houston Astros in back-to-back starts. "[Carrasco] did a good job against us," Rangers manager Chris Woodward said. "He pitched well, the changeup was nasty, but those are certain things that maybe we take that changeup away from him at some point, because he kept beating [it] with us."
Like Saturday, the Mets took the lead in the first on a Starling Marte home run. However, Marte’s shot was with the bases cleared to put New York up 1-0 after one. In the third, the Rangers tied the game up on a career-best twelfth homer by Jonah Heim. Texas had a chance to gain the lead with second and third and two outs, but Corey Seager grounded out to second to end the threat. The Mets regained the lead in the fourth as Pete Alonso reached on a drop third strike. Jeff McNeil doubled to score Alonso, and Eduardo Escobar cleared the bases with a two-run home run capping off a three-run fourth for the Mets. "It's a difficult play all around, Jonah just [has to] make a better throw, but not an easy play," Woodward said on the drop third strike. "We've seen a few first baseman the last couple of years, [Max] Muncy and Ty France, you're kind of losing an arm on that play. A little different coming from an infielders on the inside of the base, but it's a tough play for a first baseman."
The Rangers had opportunities with runners in scoring position in the fifth and sixth innings but couldn’t produce the big hit. Meanwhile, the Rangers pitching staff held the Mets down with runners in scoring position after the fourth inning too. The Mets had chances in the sixth and seventh, but Brett Martin and José Leclerc squandered any chances. In the ninth, Texas had the tying run on against Edwin Diaz, but Mitch Garver struck out and Leody Taveras lined out to end any chance of a comeback.
Jon Gray couldn’t get out of the sixth inning but managed to hold the Mets to four runs (three earned) on six hits, one walk, and seven strikeouts. Gray threw one-hundred and two pitches on Sunday. "It was that one inning [fourth inning] and two hitters, McNeil and Escobar, back-to-back," Chris Woodward said on Jon Gray's performance. "Those two guys beat up on those pitches, that's all. I thought Jon's stuff looked pretty good. [He] gave up that homer to Marte in the first inning, but outside of that kept them off balance, had some punchouts, [and] stuff looked good." Brett Martin came in to relieve Jon Gray and induced a Luis Guillorme groundout to end a sixth-inning threat. Rangers manager Chris Woodward gave José Leclerc two innings on Sunday. He allowed a few baserunners in his first inning of work (seventh), but got Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso to end the threat. Leclerc retired the Mets in order in the eighth inning.
Postgame Notes
Jonah Heim leads all MLB catchers with twelve home runs.
The seventh hole for the Rangers in 2022 homered thirteen times. That’s most in MLB.
Jon Gray entered Sunday with a career 8.87 ERA in five starts against the Mets. It was the third-highest ERA against any team.
Carlos Carrasco allowed one run in a start against Texas for the first time since May 27th, 2015. It’s the second start Carrasco allowed one run to the Rangers (ninth).
Josh Smith has reached base in fourteen of the fifteen games he’s played.
The Rangers have homered in nine straight games, which is the longest active streak in MLB.
Nathaniel Lowe’s .322 average on the road is eighth-best in the American League and twelfth best in MLB.
With the Mets win Sunday, former Rangers' manager Buck Showalter reached 1,600 career managerial wins.
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