Turner, Strasburg Send Nationals to 7-4 Win Over Mets

According to oddsmakers from online sports book Bovada.lv, the Mets are -130 money line favorites to knock off the Nationals, who have odds of +120 to pull off the upset in NY.

Max Scherzer struck out 10 over eight masterful innings to reach double digits for the fifth straight start and limited the Mets to four hits, leading the Washington Nationals over host NY 7-2 on Friday night. Overall this season, Cespedes is batting.322 with eight homers and 16 RBIs in 26 games. He stood a lanky 6 feet 4, with a long, flowing mane under a powder blue New York Mets Father's Day ball cap, and he was the reason Nationals Manager Dusty Baker stressed seizing the first three games of the series.

Strasburg allowed six runs in five innings but manager to strike out 10 batters in his short outing. He was replaced by Gabriel Ynoa, who yielded three home runs.

Mets: RHP Jacob deGrom (5-3, 4.33 ERA) threw 116 pitches Monday in his second career complete game, beating the Chicago Cubs 6-1 with a five-hitter. Colorado still leads its division by one game over the Dodgers and Diamondbacks.

Lefthander Alex Wood remained unbeaten by pitching four-hit ball over eight innings as Los Angeles extended its domination of Cincinnati. Wood improved to 7-0 and blanked the Reds until Devin Mesoraco homered in the eighth. This night it was Scherzer recording his fifth straight double digit strikeout game and the Nationals continuing their dominance against the Mets. Scherzer is 7-4, with a 2.36 ERA and has already racked up a jaw-dropping 124 strikeouts to just 21 walks.

MILWAUKEE - Cory Spangenberg and Chase d'Arnaud each hit solo home runs in the 11th inning, lifting San Diego over Milwaukee. He permitted two runs and six singles — all by Cespedes and Jay Bruce — in 5 1/3 innings. He hit safely in all 19 games vs. the Mets past year after they let him go the previous winter, and is now 41-104 (.394) with seven doubles, a triple, eight home runs and 28 RBIs in 26 career games against his former team.

Turner's fifth career leadoff homer and third this season, on Lugo's second pitch, was the third the Mets have allowed in their past five games.

Rendon's run-scoring double in the ninth made it 7-4.

Joyce reached base five times and ex-Virginia Tech pitcher Jesse Hahn (3-4) pitched five innings to defeat the Yankees for the first time in his career. NY is 14-14 on the road. Conforto added a two-out RBI single in the sixth, and Granderson finished it off with an RBI single off Matt Grace in the seventh.

Wilmer Flores and Rene Rivera homered for the Mets. He was roughed up in his last start against the Braves though.

Betts hit his team-leading 12th homer, and third in three games. "You lose three in a row, who shows up?" Ian Kennedy retired the first 17 Angels to end his 16-start winless skid. Washington is now 11 1/2 games ahead of the third-place Mets (30-37). Indians right-hander Carlos Carrasco allowed one run and four hits in 6 1/3 innings.

ATLANTA - Justin Bour homered in his return from the disabled list as Miami blanked Atlanta.

In Detroit, Nicholas Castellanos doubled, tripled and drove in four runs for the Tigers. In his first three at-bats, he failed to get the ball out of the infield against Jacob deGrom. Winning pitcher Daniel Norris matched a season high with eight strikeouts and gave up three runs and eight hits over six-plus innings.

The New York Mets will try to salvage something from this series after dropping the first three games of the set, including their game three loss on Saturday. Jose Quintana won for the first time since May 2, yielding homers by Kendrys Morales and Steve Pearce but just three other hits over seven innings.

"The one inning was kind of tough", said Ross, who allowed nine hits and struck out four.

A day after pitcher Matt Harvey and second baseman Neil Walker left with injuries that will put both of them on the disabled list, center fielder Juan Lagares broke his left thumb trying to make a diving catch.