Mets vs. Cubs Game Highlights (4/22/21) | MLB Highlights

Well Trevor Williams making the start for the Cubs are all pitchers since 2019 that have made at least 40 starts. Williams has the highest or worst era of all eligible pitchers but against the New York Mets he is good three and one two point oh eight in his career. Luis Guillermo made the lead things off two for two in this series he's got a five eighty eight on base percentage to start the year got in his hands that time. Here's half barely has to move. Last night Lindor had a solid night at the plate going three for four including his first Mets home run that came in the first inning. Lindor in the air down the left field line long run. And Ian makes the grab the center fielder in left with a long run and made a heck of a play. Always a good night to pitch when guys make plays like that behind you. You see the break to find the wall kind of gauge. OK what I got to do here I got to leave my feet or I'm going to go headlong into this wall. That's no fun. Rough road trip for Dom so far just two for 15. He's been crushing fastballs and not hitting anything else. He gets a fastball and he crushes one to right. It's down for a base hit from those things pay off immediately. Dom came into the night hitting for seventy four against fastballs old forty two against everything else and he adds to that two balls and a strike on Pete Alonzo. And now Trevor Williams delivers to Alonzo hits a sharp ground ball backhanded by Bodie nice play throws to first to get him. The Cubs flash some fancy leather defensively in the top of the first inning. Excellent plays by Ian happen left and David Bodie the second baseman he was over on the left side of the bag as they shifted the hitters that are in the lineup for 15 for twenty six off the Casey his first start three innings and three three innings three runs. But before that he had two scoreless innings and relief as they try to build up his pitch count the switch hitter batting right handed the lead off the bottom of the first for the Cubs with no score and happens well on the ground. Nice stop by Guillaume from his knees. He throws him out Guillaume in the lineup for his defense and he shows it off on the first play in the first inning. What a play by Guillaume gets a shortstop to smile. Casey is going to give up a lot of ground balls to the left side. So you've got to be ready to go and Guillaume has been ready since day one to two coming and Contreras goes down on the high fastball and Luke Casey's got his first strikeout two down. Good combination there by Luke Casey. The prior fastball was too high and he came back more into a place where Contreras would offer. So two out and nobody on Chris Bryant Ryan two for seven in this series Bryant swings and misses strike three and Luke Casey gets back to back strikeouts two out and nobody on and the chirps strikes out Duffy that's four strikeouts through the first two innings for Joey Luke Casey strong start for Joey six up and six down no score after two. Well he's walked back to back hitters here and he and half at the plate. He cracks one to right but right at Conforto and making it second as Morris Nick and he'll move over to third. I wonder if they'll check that because that did drop. But I think he I think he had it on the exchange. He dropped it. Well the runner at first base Williams stayed put. So if they did he did drop it that's we get a forced play at second base. So now two outs runners on the corners and Wilson Contreras coming up one to pitch on the way a swing and a smash off the body of Luke Casey it rolls over toward first and there's no play a run score. It's an infield single for Wilson Contreras and ball hit the body of Luke Casey and it rolled over halfway between first and second with the shift on. There was no way for V.R. the second baseman to make a play. And now some concern for Luke Casey if he got his throwing hand on that ball right. Chiklow the head athletic trainer out to have a look. So now a damage controlling it back for Luke Casey as he takes on Chris Bryant bases on balls have come back to sting Joey Luke Casey. In the score Contreras headed to the plate and it is three nothing. KB comes through with a rocket to left center field. KB gets a pitch to handle and he hammers this ball. And the only reason it doesn't go out of the ballpark is it's got a little bit of top spin on it and that keeps it in the yard. See the shift on against Tom Smith got the base it off the fastball his first time up and that fastball cranked out to left field back toward the wall and it's off the Ivy plate on the Karem by half. It's the second and slides in safely with the double for me once for me twice two fastballs two hits for Dom Smith this one an opposite field double he took a curve ball took a change up just waited for the fastball on around second nobody out Pete Alonzo is the batter Alonzo it's this ball deep in the air toward left it's way back and it's long gone. This one goes to the back of the bleachers and straight away left field as Pete Alonzo has homered for the second straight night he's gotten the Mets on the board with a two run shot and the Cubs lead has shrunk to three to two as that ball has already been thrown back from the bleachers out in left field. Hanging breaking ball from Williams just a bullet. He is literally flexing his muscles to his teammates as he walks back into the Mets dugout Cub right hander Trevor Williams ready for the O2 pitch. It's on the way to Nemo strike three called a fastball right down the middle. It's surprised Nemo he was not looking for that and that ends the inning quick choke up by Rizzo with two strikes he's done that his entire career you can do that when you're right on the plate as he is like Barry Bonds Rusty stop he gets jammed again and bloops one to center but in comes Pillar to grab it three perfect innings for Sean Reed Foley in his Mets debut. J.D. Davis has swung the bat. Well that's not been the problem for him two hits including an RBI double yesterday homered in the game on Tuesday and he drives one deep left center field back toward the gap Moritz Nick and it's off the wall bouncing away from Moritz Nick. The yard's going to score easily and now Davis to second he will stop there. The game is tied J.D. Davis off the Ivy for an RBI pinch hit double and the Mets have drawn even at three and three for all his defensive struggles. J.D. just continues to rake Apple that right hand and he's over three tonight one for nine in this series and half goes down on strikes and they're a two man down big strikeout for Aaron Lowe. Here he is on back to back nights now needing one big out here and it's Wilson Contreras to and to the count. Now the pitch to Contreras strong on and miss strike three got him with a slider side retired. So a lead off triple by the Cubs. So Winkler after striking on McNeil walks Guillaume and Lindoor back to back and that'll get Dom Smith to the plate with the bases loaded the pitch on the way. Ground ball a second one hop Bote goes to Baez one over the first for a double play a double play ends the inning four six three Cubs with a chance to win the game tie game three three bottom of the tenth inning one one to J.J. Hayward. Hayward's the hero and in ten Cubs win four three J.J. Hayward off the bench. The celebration is on.