The Mets fell to the Dodgers 6-0, as the Mets’ bats fell completely silent against Julio Urías and the Dodgers bullpen and Justin Verlander walked a season-high six batters.
Verlander was doing pretty well matching zeros with Urías...until he wasn’t. With the game still scoreless in the fifth inning, Verlander had yet to allow a hit, but he had walked three batters. Still, despite a rising pitch count, Verlander was able to keep the Dodgers off the board mostly via timely strikeouts (he struck out six batters in total in the outing). But things unraveled very quickly for Verlander in the fifth. With the first batter of the inning retired on a nice sliding catch by Mark Canha in left field,…
