Brandon Nimmo's solo home run accounts for Mets offense in 3-1 loss to A's

Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News on Apr 12, 2025

Published in Baseball

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WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Mets‘ bats just can’t seem to click.

A lineup that was expected to mash has done so in what seems like fits and starts through 14 games this season. Saturday against the A’s, the Mets put traffic on the basepaths and made right-hander J.T. Ginn throw more pitches than he likely wanted to, but only had one run to show for it.

They fell, 3-1, in the second game of the series at Sutter Health Park, losing for only the third time this month.

For the Athletics (6-9), it was their second win since moving to Sacramento.

The Mets (9-5) could do little with Ginn’s hard sinker. The one run was a homer by Brandon Nimmo in the sixth. The left fielder, who last played in this ballpark as a minor league prospect about eight years ago, got a 3-1 cutter from Ginn over the plate and dove it over the right field fence to lead off the sixth inning.

Nimmo’s long ball cut the A’s lead in half. Left-hander David Peterson allowed two earned runs in one rough inning, but was otherwise solid in a six-inning outing. However, the offense gave him little to work with.

Ginn walked Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto with one out in the top of the third, but he struck out Pete Alonso and got Nimmo to roll over on a sinker for a weak grounder right to Ginn. Brett Baty hit a two-out single in the fourth and reached second when center fielder JJ Bleday bobbled his ball in the outfield, but Ginn then struck out Tyrone Taylor.

The A’s scored twice in the bottom of the fourth, hitting Peterson right away. Jacob Wilson led off with a double and tagged up on a fly ball by Brent Rooker. Peterson then gave up three straight singles, with Wilson scoring on the first.

With the bases loaded, Bleday hit a ground ball to second baseman Baty at the edge of the dirt on the left side. Baty lost his footing and slipped, recovering in time to make the easy flip to Alonso at first for the out, but unable to throw home to prevent the runner from scoring.

Tyler Soderstrom came home easily, giving the A’s a 2-0 lead.

Peterson recovered to give the Mets two more innings. Friday marked the start of 13 consecutive games without a day off, so those two innings were important for the bullpen. But the A’s took another run off Jose Butto in the seventh to go up 3-1, and right-hander Tyler Ferguson pitched around a leadoff walk in the top of the eighth to keep the lead intact.

With one on and two out, catcher Luis Torrens hit an opposite-field line drive down the right-field line over the fence, but it went just foul. Closer Mason Miller then threw a 102.7 MPH fastball inside, and Torrens made weak contact, sending a ground ball right to shortstop Jacob Wilson for the easy out. Miller converted his fourth save in as many tries.

Last week, runs were hard to come by at a frigid Citi Field, until the Mets’ bats exploded for a 10-5 win in the second game of a series against the Miami Marlins. But then the Fish shut them out the next day. Friday night in Oakland, the ball was flying for both teams in a 7-6 win for the visitors. While Ginn was tough in 5 1/3 innings, the boom-to-bust offense seems to be a pattern for the Mets at the moment.

The series concludes Sunday afternoon with former Mets right-hander Luis Severino facing ace Kodai Senga.