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Mets waste Max Scherzer’s strong start in loss to Rockies

On the verge of a four-game sweep, the Mets traded their brooms for ice-cold bats. 

Wasting seven strong innings from Max Scherzer, the Mets mustered just three singles as they fell to the Rockies 1-0 on Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. 

German Marquez stifled the Mets across seven innings, allowing just one hit despite entering the game with a 5.22 ERA. Relievers Carlos Estevez and Daniel Bard (whom the Mets walked off against on Friday night) finished off the shutout. 

Scherzer brought a one-hit shutout (on 96 pitches) into the seventh inning, when the Rockies finally got to him on mostly weak contact. C.J. Cron led off with a single to left field before Jose Iglesias singled on a bunt to third base, where Brett Baty was playing back. Randal Grichuk then hit a dribbler down the third-base line, where Baty charged it and backhanded the ball but had no play at first base. 

Mets starting pitcher Max Scherzer leaves the field in the seventh inning of a game against the Rockies on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, at Citi Field.
Mets starting pitcher Max Scherzer leaves the field in the seventh inning.
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With the bases suddenly loaded, Scherzer got Sam Hilliard struck out on a slider, his 10th punch-out of the day. 

But Brian Serven followed with a sacrifice fly to right-center field to put the Rockies ahead 1-0. 

Scherzer then got Garrett Hampson to strike out on his 112th and final pitch to end the seventh inning, leaving runners on the corners. 

After Joely Rodriguez pitched a scoreless top of the eighth inning, the Rockies also went to their bullpen with Estevez, ending Marquez’s day at seven innings and 102 pitches. 

Baty recorded the Mets’ second hit of the day when he poked a single to center field with one out in the eighth inning. Baty soon got into scoring position on a wild pitch, but pinch-hitter Starling Marte and Brandon Nimmo struck out to end the threat. 

Scherzer was sharp from the start, striking out the first two batters he faced on six pitches. Charlie Blackmon followed with a single lofted to left field, but was the Rockies’ only hit until the seventh inning. 

Marquez, meanwhile, held the Mets hitless until the fifth inning, when Jeff McNeil led off with a single. McNeil moved to second on a balk but was stranded there.

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