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New York Mets’ Francisco Lindor (12) and Brandon Nimmo (9) celebrate after a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Tuesday, June 27, 2023, in New York. The Mets won 7-2. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
QUEENS — Look what the Mets can do when the hitting and pitching sync up.
Brandon Nimmo hit two of New York’s four home runs off starting pitcher Julio Teheran — which also featured Francisco Lindor’s 200th career round-tripper — and David Peterson spun six scoreless innings as the Mets thumped the Milwaukee Brewers 7-2 on Tuesday night at Citi Field to provide a much-needed positive result to the struggling side.
“I was able to get him over the plate twice to be able to do some damage on him,” Nimmo said of his big night. “I thought we did a really good job because it seems like nobody else has really touched him up yet.”
The Mets (36-43) had lost 16 of their previous 21 games, including five of their last six, but found a way to rough up Teheran and his 1.53 season ERA.
They could not have asked much more from Peterson, who took a considerable amount of pressure off a heavily-taxed bullpen in his first major-league start since May 15 after beginning the season 1-6 with an 8.08 ERA and being demoted to Triple-A.
He had to deal with quite a bit of traffic, allowing five hits and walking an additional three, but five strikeouts and a pair of well-timed double plays avoided any Milwaukee runs to cross against him.
Peterson loaded the bases in the first after allowing a single and a pair of walks with one out but coaxed an inning-ending double play from Owen Miller. In the fourth, he put the first two men on base but got Luis Urias to ground into another twin killing before striking out Brian Anderson with a runner on third to keep the Brewers off the scoreboard.
“It’s nice to get a quick double play like that,”…
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