Dillon Gee helps New York Mets shutout Washington Nationals 1-0 - MLB Update
The New York Mets’ starter, Dillon Gee tossed some outstanding innings to take his club to another shutout over the Washington Nationals 1-0, at the Citi Field, New York, on Thursday night, May 19.
Gee repeated the same kind of performance as Jonathon Niese did in last night’s 3-0 triumph. The 25-year-old pitcher tossed seven shutout innings, allowed just two hits, three walks and managed three strikeouts to earn his third win of the series. Having
3-0 record with 3.44 ERA, Gee is one of those pitchers who have not received a single loss in this season.
Reliever Tim Byrdak and closer Francisco Rodriguez displayed the same striking performance to cement the 21st win for their club. Rodriguez tossed thirteen pitches and gave away just one hit to earn his fourteenth win of the season.
Justin Turner scored the only run of the game off the Nationals’ starter Livan Hernandez, who has given just two hits, in the fourth inning. Despite allowing a run, Hernandez struck back strongly and got seven strike-outs without allowing further run on
seven hits over his complete seven innings spell.
The 36-year-old right-hand pitcher also allowed two walks to earn his sixth loss of the season, maximum than any other starter. He now has 3-6 record with a 3.64 ERA.
Reliever Cole Kimball and closer Sean Burnett each threw short scoreless innings, but they remained helpless to take their club back into the winning position.
The game turned into a tense situation soon after Laynce Nix drove in a double in the ninth inning. Then right-fielder Jayson Werth touched a pitch to the third baseman Justin Turner, who captured the ball and threw it to pull first baseman Daniel Murphy
off the bag. At the same time first-base umpire, Phil Cuzzi called Werth ground out.
"He was safe," Hernandez said. "He beat him two times. He was safe because the guy was off the bag and he was safe because he beat the throw."
The Nationals’ manager Jim Riggleman came out of his camp to argue with the umpire, who turned his beef down. Riggleman then took his complain to plate umpire Manny Gonzalez.
"I wanted to see if maybe from his angle he could see it better, maybe the first baseman coming off the base. He has a good look at that. He refused," Riggleman said.
On the last pitch of the game, Adam LaRoche grounded out to second base with Nix on third base to end the game. However, Riggleman, Rodriguez and Porter kept on arguing.
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