New York Mets at Cincinnati Reds

· Major League Baseball

New York Mets

76-67, 31-40 Away

Final
2 - 3

Cincinnati Reds

72-71, 40-34 Home

Greene strikes out 12, Reds beat Mets 3-2 after Sproat takes no-hit bid into 6th of big league debut

New York Mets vs. Cincinnati Reds: Game Highlights

New York's Brandon Sproat (0-1) held the Reds hitless through 5 1/3 innings in his major league debut before allowing three consecutive hits, Noelvi Marte's single, Ely De La Cruz's tiebreaking RBI double and Austin Hays' run-scoring single.

Hays had a sacrifice fly in the fourth that scored Marte, who walked, stole second and advanced on a groundout.

Greene (6-4) allowed one hit in seven innings, a third-inning home run by Brett Baty on a slider. He threw 30 pitches of 100 mph or higher and increased his season total to 346, most among starting pitchers.

Juan Soto hit his 38th homer, a ninth-inning drive off Tony Santillan, who got his fifth save when Starling Marte hit a double-play grounder with two on.

New York (76-67) leads Cincinnati and San Francisco (both 72-71) for the last NL wild card.

Sproat, a 24-year-old right-hander, became the third Mets pitching prospect to debut in recent weeks after Nolan McLean (Aug. 16) and Jonah Tong (Aug. 29). It was the first time three Mets starting pitcher debuted in a 21-day span.

Sproat allowed three runs, three hits and four walks in six innings with seven strikeouts. He averaged 96.1 mph with 11 fastballs and 95.9 mph with 24 sinkers, also throwing 19 each of curveballs and sweepers along with eight changeups and seven sliders. Sproat threw 58 of 88 pitches for strikes.

Key moment Marte broke up Sproat’s no-hit bid in the sixth with a single to right on a first-pitch, up-and-in sinker.

Key stat Sproat was the 45th Mets pitcher this season, tying the big league record set by Miami last year.

Up next Mets: McLean (4-0, 1.37 ERA) starts Monday's series opener at Philadelphia, which starts RHP Aaron Nola (3-8, 6.78)

Reds: LHP Nick Lodolo (8-7, 3.22) will be on the mound for Monday's series opener at San Diego.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Marte grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Nimmo out at second.
	9th Inning	Nimmo singled to left, Acuña to second.
	9th Inning	Acuña ran for Alonso
	9th Inning	Alonso safe at first on throwing error by shortstop De La Cruz.
	9th Inning	J. Soto homered to right center (393 feet).
	9th Inning	Lindor flied out to center.

Statistics

NYM		CIN
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
0	Ground Balls	0
12	Strikeouts	9
2	Runs Batted In	3
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
3	Hits	4
0	Stolen Bases	1
2	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	3
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
30	At Bats	26
2	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
6	Runners Left On Base	10
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
0	Fly Balls	0
0	Caught Stealing	0
127	Pitches	116
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
9	Total Bases	5
32	Plate Appearances	31
324.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
2	Extra Base Hits	1
0.7	Runs Created	1.3
.100	Batting Average	.154
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.300	Slugging Percentage	.192
.267	Secondary Average	.231
.156	On Base Percentage	.258
.456	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.450
0.0	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.0
0.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.4
17.0	Batter Rating	19.0
15.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.97	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.74
.200	Isolated Power	.038
0.17	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.44
.063	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.129
.167	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.077
4.0	Runs Produced	6.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.1	Balls In Play Average	0.2
65.8	MLB Rating	67.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0