MIAMI — Christian Scott’s second homecoming game of his brief major league career wasn’t nearly as electric as his first.
On a mound about 45 minutes from where he grew up in Parkland, Fla., the Mets rookie dealt with the kind of traffic Friday that is usually reserved for I-95 during rush hour in South Florida.
The Marlins came out swinging and used an early outburst to sting Scott in the Mets’ 8-0 loss at loanDepot park.
All around, the Mets (20-24) scuffled in losing for the sixth time in eight games.
This one came against a Marlins team that began the day with MLB’s worst record.
It marked the second time in four games the Mets got shut out.
Scott opened his major league career with a scintillating performance at Tampa Bay two weeks ago in which he allowed only one earned run over 6 ²/₃ innings.
He followed with an acceptable Citi Field debut against the Braves (three earned runs over six innings).
On this night the long ball buried him.
Nick Fortes smashed a three-run homer in the second as part of a wild ride in which Scott had nine runners on base against him in a three-inning stretch.
But Scott minimized the damage, allowing four earned runs on seven hits over four innings with three strikeouts and one walk.
The Mets’ bats didn’t provide a reprieve.
Jesus Luzardo dominated, striking out seven with five hits allowed over six shutout innings before the Marlins’ bullpen handled the rest.
The night could have been much worse for Scott, who escaped a bases-loaded jam with nobody out in the fourth to keep the Mets in the game trailing by four runs.
After Jeff McNeil booted Otto Lopez’s grounder for an error, Vidal Brujan singled and Fortes walked to load the bases.
Scott responded by striking out Jazz Chisholm Jr. before retiring Bryan De La Cruz and Josh Bell to leave the bases loaded.
Fortes’ three-run homer in the second was the Marlins’ big hit against Scott.
After Jesus Sanchez and Nick Gordon both singled in the inning and Lopez’s sacrifice fly brought in the game’s first run, Fortes jumped on a sweeper and cleared the left-field fence, burying the Mets in a 4-0 hole.
Josh Walker surrendered two runs in the sixth, extending the Marlins’ lead to 6-0.
Walker’s wild pitch brought in the first run before De La Cruz hit a sacrifice fly.
Brujan walked to begin the rally and Fortes singled.
Grant Hartwig allowed two additional runs in the eighth on three hits and a walk.
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