NEW YORK — Jeff McNeil ranged far to his right to field Luis Garcia’s potential inning-ending double play ball on the backhand. As the Mets’ second baseman started to transfer the ball to his hand for a flip to second, he dropped it for an error.
Baseball wisdom says you’re not supposed to give good teams extra outs. The Washington Nationals are not a good team – in fact, they came into the game with the worst record in MLB.
But the Nationals turned that error into a four-run third inning. All the runs charged to Mets starter Carlos Carrasco in the third were unearned, but that is probably little consolation to Carrasco or Mets fans.
