MILWAUKEE — Buck Showalter was confident that Carlos Carrasco would have a strong showing in his first outing of the 2023 season but that premonition didn’t quite come to fruition.
The Mets arrived in Milwaukee riding high after a 3-1 series win in Miami to start the 2023 campaign. But an implosion in the fifth inning ultimately doomed them against the Brewers and they were blown out 10-0 on Monday afternoon at American Family Field.
Carrasco (0-1) ran into trouble in the fourth inning with the Brewers rallying for two runs with two outs and the struggles continued in the fifth, with Milwaukee scoring seven runs and batting around. Brice Turang, a 23-year-old rookie infielder, hit a grand slam off Tommy Hunter for his first career home run, which cued up a chorus of cowbells from a sellout crowd of 42,017.
