Mets starter Steven Matz delivering a pitch against the Nationals during Wednesday’s 2-0 victory in Washington. They’re also winless at 0-8 in his last eight outings following a quality start in his last appearance.
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This announcement comes one day after Harvey gave up five runs in five innings against the rival Washington Nationals.
Since allowing seven runs in 1 2/3 innings in his season debut, Matz is 7-0 with a 1.13 ERA in seven starts. On Wednesday against the Washington Nationals, the left-hander went eight innings, giving up just four hits, striking out seven and walking just one.
The Nationals had one chance against Matz in the second inning when they put two on with one out, but Matz induced a lineout from Danny Espinosa and a soft fly from Roark to end the threat.
Hammel (6-1) bounced back from his first loss of the season in his previous start.
As an unbeaten pitcher for a first-place team, Stephen Strasburg is at the top of his game.
OF Yoenis Cespedes entered Tuesday as the league leader in homers (15) and ended the night with two hits, including a double.
There were whispers of Harvey being demoted following the first bad start against the Nationals, but he was able to talk himself out of that. Pitching on the eve of his 43rd birthday, NY starter Bartolo Colon allowed one run in seven efficient innings.
Jackie Bradley Jr. extended his career-high hitting streak to 28 games – tied with Wade Boggs for fifth-best in team history – while eammate Xander Bogaerts extended his to a career-high 17 in the win.
Washington lost a home series for the second time this season. In the NL Central, St. Louis’ edged the leading Chicago Cubs with a ninth-inning homer, while San Francisco also left it to the final frame to beat San Diego, settling a scoreless pitchers’ duel. Lucky for them, Mets captain David Wright was happy to oblige. Miguel Cabrera drove in two runs for Detroit.
The Padres fell to 0-8 against the Giants this season.
Texas’ Martin Perez finally got a win after another strong May start as the Rangers won 4-1 against the Los Angeles Angels. It was the first career leadoff homer for Nunez. He had three hits and reached base all four times.
ROYALS 7, TWINS 4: Salvador Perez hit a two-run homer, Lorenzo Cain had four hits and two RBI as Kansas City topped host Minnesota. Two men LOB. Bottom of the first not much better, singles by Werth, Murphy (old friend) and Zimmerman give the Nats an early 1-0 lead. Harvey did not speak to the media after the game.
“Him, the stature that he has built, the last thing you want … you want to be known as an accountable player”, Wright said.
With the Pirates up 11 in the eighth, reliever Arquimedes Caminero was ejected for hitting Nick Ahmed, the second batter he hit in as many innings.
The Mets got an insurance run in the bottom of the seventh when Daniel Murphy, who has been really doing some damage to NY pitching so far this season, let a potential inning-ending double play ball get by him.
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After Harvey left the game, Ben Revere connected off Antonio Bastardo in the seventh and Wilson Ramos went deep against Jim Henderson in the eighth for Washington.
