Coming up on Sunday afternoon, the Major League Baseball is bringing us game three of a weekend series at Turner Field between the New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves.
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While we never condone this kind of behavior (you know, because you’ll go to jail), it was a little more exciting than what was going in the Braves’ 6-3 loss to the Mets. “That’s when we said, ‘Hey, can you guys watch him for the night?’ I guess he did it twice for them and that’s when they chose to send him up to get monitored”. He wasn’t showing me anything on that and then I just went ahead and threw him a slider. I feel like that’s my fourth-best pitch, ” he said. “It’s looking pretty bad”. His final line was one run on three hits, all singles, with two walks and four strikeouts.
DeGrom will be making his 54th career start for the Mets but just his second of the season.
CINCINNATI – Anthony Rizzo homered twice and Jason Hammel allowed only three hits in seven innings as Chicago defeated Cincinnati in the finale of a four-game series. For first-time parents Jacob and Stacey deGrom, it was as scary as situation as one could imagine.
The Mets have reason to be cautious about deGrom’s lat. Steven Matz, who started for the Mets on Saturday, pitched with lat tightness last season and tore a muscle.
“I had a lot of guys with two strikes that I couldn’t put away”, he said. “I wish it came a little bit faster”. He left the game an inning later. The left-hander was pulled after allowing a run-scoring single to Nick Markakis in the seventh.
When Granderson scored on Conforto’s sacrifice fly, it marked the seventh time NY tallied in the first inning on its nine-game road trip. Giving credit where credit is due, Verrett filled in admirably for the Mets’ ace but the Flushing Faithful as well as Terry Collins and Dan Warthen will be happy to have deGrom back on the mound.
Jeurys Familia gave up a run in the ninth on Jeff Francoeur’s RBI single with two outs before retiring Daniel Castro with two on for his fifth save.
Mets: OF Yoenis Cespedes was unavailable for the second straight day while nursing a sore leg that Collins said “could” linger into Monday night. David Wright doubled and Michael Conforto was hit by a pitch.
When Granderson scored on Conforto’s sacrifice fly, it marked the seventh time NY tallied in the first inning on its nine-game road trip.
DeGrom described himself as more nervous than he customarily gets for a start, given he had missed two turns of the rotation.
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On Sunday, he needed one more out to get there, but Collins made a decision to take him out after a two-out single in the sixth. Even after losing the first two games of the series, Miami owns a 16-9 record at AT&T Park since 2010.
