Game 5 - Friggin Mets

A familiar pattern is emerging for the 2020 SOM Phillies. Get a lot of hits, not many runs, and lose. Such was the case Monday as the Phils fell to the Mets, 2-1, despite a solid outing from Zach Eflin.

"I don't know what to tell you," manager Joe Girardi said. "You figure you're going to score more than one freaking run when you get 10 hits. I just don't know." The Phillies left 11 runners on base.

The Mets scored first when right fielder Bryce Harper butchered a ball hit into the right-field corner. He kicked it, he dropped it, and the next thing you know, Ahmed Rosario was standing on third with nobody out. Pete Alonso followed a Jeff McNeil strikeout with a fly ball to deep center field, and Rosario scored easily.

Mets third baseman Luis Guillorme plated New York's second run of the day in the bottom of the second, when he knocked in JD Davis, who went 3-for-3 on the day.

Harper knocked in pinch hitter Neil Walker in the ninth to make it 2-1 Mets, but the Phillies could do no more.

Eflin went six innings and gave up five hits and one earned run, striking out three. Jose Alvarez and Nick Pivetta added scoreless innings from the bullpen. The Phils are now 2-3 on the season, one game behind first-place Miami. What?