MLB: Padres beat the Mets 6-0 in the final

San Diego Padres’ Joe Musgrove was brilliant on the hill and his performance helped his team eliminate the New York Mets with a 6-0 win on Sunday.

San Diego takes the honors in this short streak of two-to-one first-round wins. The Padres will meet the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Division Series.

Musgrove gave up one hit—for Pete Alonso—and one walk in seven innings. He also had five hits.

“Joe was on full duty today,” Padres manager Bob Melvin said.

It rested him doing the rest of the action against the Mets, who hit just one hit, the lowest number in baseball history in a final game.

In their series against the Dodgers, the Padres are guaranteed to play their first home playoff in 16 years when they are at Petco Park for Game 3.

“We can’t wait to get back out there and play against them. Melvin noted that they deserved it.

The match was the scene of a spectacle as unusual as it was funny when officials in the fifth game suspected Musgrove of using a product to improve velocity on his ball that we saw referee Alfonso Marquez feel generous with both. The archer’s ears, after this interruption, was able to continue his work without losing focus.

“I’ve seen (Mets manager Buck Showalter) use this tactic before,” Musgrove said. I understand, at the same time. They were desperate, looking for something to hold on to. They were going to do everything they could to get me out of the game. »

In attack, Austin led Nola in two rounds in the second half alone. In the fourth inning, Trent Grisham pushed Ha Seung Kim into the lead to make it 3-0. In the next inning, Mane led Machado in one round as well.

At eight, Juan Soto hit hard with a two-round strike that increased Padres’ lead to six runs.

This was the fifth time that Padres had won a playoff series.

They won the first round against the St. Louis Cardinals in 2020, at home, but without fans due to the pandemic. They were then swept away in the next round by future world champion Dodgers.

For the Mets, a stellar season ended disappointingly with empty seats. The most spending team in Major League Baseball won 101 games—the second most in the club’s history—but couldn’t resist the Atlanta Braves’ late advance of the season. The Mets have been at the top of the Nationals East Division all but six days of the season.

“They hit us, period,” first baseman Pete Alonso summed up.

Chris Bassett, the third New York rookie, only went four rounds, waived three runs, three strokes and three costly walks.

Hikers Robert Suarez and Josh Hader finished the match and did not allow any hits.