Mets beat Nats, 5-0 as Peterson pitches 1st complete game
NL East-leading New York moved a season-best 20 games over .500 at 44-24.
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NL East-leading New York moved a season-best 20 games over .500 at 44-24.
Jeff McNeil doubled home the winning run in the 10th inning and the Mets rallied past the Nationals 5-4 on Tuesday night.
Brandon Nimmo hit a grand slam and a three-run homer and finished with nine RBIs in the Mets' 19-5 destruction of the Nationals on Monday.
CJ Abrams scored the winning run on Pete Alonso's throwing error with one out in the ninth inning, and the Nationals rallied to defeat the Mets 8-7 on Sunday.
Clay Holmes combined with five relievers on the New York Mets' fifth shutout of the season, a 2-0 win over the Washington Nationals on Saturday.
Starling Marte and Nick Plummer each homered and finished with four RBIs as the Mets rode an early offensive outburst to rout the Nationals.
According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Federal Aviation Administration failed to inform Capitol Police of the pre-planned flyover.
The Mets won the opener 11-9, blowing a nine-run lead before bouncing back on Francisco Lindor's two-run homer in the ninth inning.
Their five-game winning streak doesn't include a win completed Tuesday in the resumption of an April 11 game postponed by rain against Miami.
The three homers by the Mets were their most since Aug. 7 and just the fourth time this month they've gone deep more than once.
The loss was the 19th in 25 games this month for the Mets, who entered August atop the NL East but are now as close to last as they are to first.
Heading into a stretch of 13 straight games against talented NL West teams San Francisco and Los Angeles, the Mets won their third straight, their best string since taking three in a row from June 14-16.
New York is poised to play its 12th doubleheader of the year Thursday, with two more scheduled.
Play will resume Wednesday at 4:10 p.m. as part of a single-admission doubleheader, and the suspended game will remain scheduled for nine innings.
Fans were asked to leave Nationals Park after a shooting that occurred outside the stadium led to a panicked scene with attendees ducking for cover and the teams retreating to their clubhouses.
Lindor homered in the first on a sinker from Joe Ross (3-7), singled in the third on a changeup for a 3-0 lead and homered in the fifth on a slider for his 12th multi-homer game.
U.S. Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman was praised for his quick thinking after a viral video showed him luring rioters to chase him up a staircase and away from the Senate floor.
Joey Lucchesi countered with 5 1/3 scoreless innings, allowing four hits and two walks while striking out five. Three Mets relievers followed with 2 2/3 scoreless before Díaz struggled in the ninth.
Gleyber Torres blooped a tying single in the ninth inning and won the game with a 50-foot single into a five-man infield that gave the New York Yankees a thrilling win over the Washington Nationals on Saturday.
The Yankees lost their second straight following a five-game winning streak and dropped back to .500 at 16-16.
Michael Conforto homered for the Mets in the fourth.
Perennially plagued by a lack of run support, just like Mets star Tom Seaver decades earlier, deGrom lowered his career ERA to 2.55 and overtook Seaver's 2.57 for New York's franchise lead.
The Mets are now scheduled to open the season on Monday night against the Phillies.
New York couldn't hold a 3-1 lead in the fourth inning of a seven-inning game and missed the postseason for the fourth straight year.
The Mets (26-31) moved within 2 1/2 games of Miami (28-28) for second place in the NL East and within 2 1/2 games of San Francisco (28-28) for the NL's second wild card spot.
