Tylor Megill and Mets Cruise Through Win Over D’Backs

PHOENIX — Tylor Megill’s fastball was blazing, J.D. Davis smashed his first homer of the yr and the opportunistic Mets gained one other ballgame by beating the sloppy Arizona Diamondbacks, 6-2, on Sunday.

The great occasions hold rolling for these Mets, who took two of three in opposition to Arizona for his or her fifth straight collection win to start out the season, matching a franchise file set in 2018.

Mets 6, Diamondbacks 2 | Field Rating | Play-by-Play

The N.L. East leaders go away the desert with a 12-5 file.

“We’re going to savor it,” Davis mentioned. “However we all know how this recreation goes — it will possibly humble you actually fast. We’re joyful, however it’s April. We’ve bought to remain on the gasoline pedal.”

It was one other good exhibiting for the Mets’ beginning pitching, which got here into the sport with an 8-2 file and a 2.44 E.R.A. Megill (3-0) gave up two runs and 4 hits over 6 ⅔ innings, strolling one. He struck out seven, at occasions overpowering the Diamondbacks with a fastball that sat within the 96-97 mile-per-hour vary all afternoon.

“I felt like the whole lot was working,” Megill mentioned. “Throwing a whole lot of strikes immediately.”

The Diamondbacks didn’t do a lot on the plate, with one notable exception. Arizona tied it at 1 within the fourth on Christian Walker’s 467-foot drive to left-center that landed on the concourse behind the seats.

It was the second-longest homer of his profession, behind a 479-footer Walker hit off Clayton Kershaw in 2018.

Sasaki’s Streak Ends

TOKYO — Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki of the Chiba Lotte Marines is mortal, in any case.

After throwing an ideal recreation on April 10 — the primary in Japanese baseball in 28 years — and eight good innings on April 17 earlier than being pulled after 102 pitches, Sasaki gave up successful on his first pitch Sunday in opposition to the Orix Buffaloes.

The sport was performed on the Kyocera Dome in Osaka.

Shuhei Fukuda hit Sasaki’s first pitch, which ended a streak of 52 batters retired. Sasaki retired 27 within the good recreation, one other 24 within the eight-inning outing, and in addition the final batter he confronted within the recreation earlier than his good recreation.

Within the good recreation, and the eight innings of perfection, Sasaki had 33 strikeouts in going through 51 batters.

Sasaki labored 5 innings on Sunday in Chiba Lotte’s 6-3 win and was credited with the victory. He allowed two earned runs, walked three, hit two batters and gave up six hits. He had solely 4 strikeouts.