NEW YORK--The never say die Mets were down but not out against Brewers starter Brandon Woodruff in Monday night's 4-2 victory.Although Woodruff was cruising along through the first six innings, it all fell apart for him in the bottom of the seventh.In a tie game, Woodruff, who entered the evening with a 1.87 ERA (Third-best in MLB), i sued a leadoff walk to Francisco Lindor, before the red-hot Dom Smith Luke Tenuta Jersey singled to center to put runners on the corners with nobody out.That's when Pete Alonso ripped a two-run double down the left field line to ignite the Citi Field faithful and give his team a 3-1 lead.But their bats weren't finished there, as Michael Conforto got in on the action with an RBI single to knock Woodruff out of the game, extending the lead to 4-1."I feel like right now we're hitting on all cylinders...we were able to put a lot of championship at-bats together," said Alonso, who has five RBIs in his last three games.Despite suffering a slew of injuries to their pitching staff lately, the Mets may have filled one hole in the backend of their rotation.Rookie pitcher Tylor Megill made his third big-league start and was impre sive again.Coming off an eight strikeout performance against the Braves in his last outing, Megill to sed five innings of one-run baseball versus the Brewers, allowing just two hits, while striking out seven batters.Although he has yet to notch his first career win, the Mets are 3-0 in Megill's starts. The Josh Allen Jersey right-hander has also produced a 3.77 ERA and 19 strikeouts (third-most by a Met through first three career starts) acro s 14.1 innings."It's exciting, Joe Delamielleure Jersey I'm just trying to put myself and the team in the best position po sible to win each time I go out there," said Megill. "It's not about me all the time, it's about the team."Scroll to ContinueAccording to Megill, when his slider wasn't working for him, he went to the changeup, which was a big part of his succe s in this outing."It's all coming full-circle with that pitch, I'm able to command it where I want it," said Megill.Mets manager Luis Rojas credited Megill for attacking the Brewers' hitters and keeping his composure."He's calm, cool and collected throughout the game," said Rojas. "This is an aggre sive team and he was able to attack."Megill and Woodruff matched each other with three scorele s innings to start the game. Buffalo Bills Hats But in the top of the fourth, the Brewers got on the board when Omar Narvaez took Megill deep for a solo home run.In the bottom half, Brandon Nimmo proved to be a spark plug once again, slashing an opposite field double down the left field line to leadoff the fourth.Lindor then took matters into his own hands by opting to play small ball in laying down a sacrifice bunt to move Nimmo over to third with one out. And that's when Smith came up and drove him in with a sac-fly to tie things up at 1-1.Aaron Loup, Seth Lugo and Trevor May combined for three scorele s innings out of the bullpen to set things up for closer Edwin Diaz in the ninth after the Mets took a three-run lead.And although he made things interesting by allowing the first three batters to reach base, which resulted in a run, Diaz bared down to pickup his 18th save.At the half A.J. Epenesa Jersey way point of the season, the Amazins' hold a four-game lead in the NL East and are 44-37 on the year after notching a huge victory against one of the best pitchers and hottest teams in all of baseball."We are in first-place and that's excellent, but where we are now is where we want to be at the end of 162," said Alonso. "We can't be complacent."
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