Center fielder Alex Call made a pair of excellent defensive performs within the ninth inning, preserving the Washington Nationals’ 3-2 win Sunday and dealing the slumping New York Mets their 14th loss in 20 video games.

In the completion of a sport suspended within the third inning after a 3-hour, 56-minute rain delay on Saturday evening, C.J. Abrams broke a 2-2 tie within the seventh with a house run off Dominic Leone (0-1), who misplaced in his first choice with the Mets.

Call completely performed the carom off the wall on Michael Pérez’s two-out drive within the ninth off Kyle Finnegan holding Pérez to a single.

Brandon Nimmo adopted with a single and main league batting champion Jeff McNeil hit a fly that Call tracked down simply in entrance of the wall for the ultimate out, giving Finnegan his eighth save in 10 probabilities.

New York, with a significant league-leading $355 million payroll, fell to 19-21. The Mets went 1 for six with runners in scoring place and stranded 9 runners.

Call additionally made a pleasant operating catch for the ultimate out of the seventh on Francisco Lindor’s deep drive off Hunter Harvey (2-0), who pitched 1 2/3 hitless innings.

Pérez went 4 for 4 along with his second profession four-hit sport. The different was for Pittsburgh towards Milwaukee final June 30.

In Sunday’s commonly scheduled sport, Max Scherzer (2-2) was to start out for the Mets and Jake Irvin (1-0) for the Nationals.

Two of Abrams’ three homers this season have come towards the Mets - he hit his first profession grand slam April 27 at New York. Abrams additionally had an RBI single within the fourth.

Nimmo hit a tying sacrifice fly within the third on the primary pitch of the day from reliever Erasmo Ramírez and doubled forward of McNeil’s sacrifice fly within the seventh.

MOVES

Mets LHP Joey Lucchesi, who began on Friday evening, was optioned to Triple-A Syracuse and New York chosen the contract of RHP Dennis Santana from Triple-A Syracuse. Santana pitched a one-hit eighth. RHP Seth Elledge was designated for task.

UP NEXT

LHP David Peterson (1-5, 7.68) is to start out Monday’s finale of the four-game collection for the Mets and LHP Patrick Corbin (1-5, 4.87) for the Nationals.

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