To add to that, NY is calling up prospect and catcher Gary Sanchez before that game, and someone on the roster is going to need to be moved in order to make room. The only Yankees’ offense came in the ninth, when Didi Gregorious launched a solo homer (12) off Jonathon Niese to avoid the shutout.
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Mets: Cespedes (thigh) might be able to pinch-hit Tuesday, Collins said. “That’s what it looks like now, or for that matter what manager Joe Girardi will do instead of having the original plan of that “Three-headed-Monster” of Betances, Miller and Chapman”.
The Mets are 4-0 in Matz’s last four starts in game three of a series, and 9-3 in Matz’s last 12 road starts.
The 26-year-old Verrett has been a much better pitcher at home in 2016, going 2-3 with a 3.29 ERA as opposing batters hit only.220 against him.
“I’m definitely a lot more comfortable on the mound these past few starts, especially these past two than I did earlier in the year”, deGrom said.
“Jake’s had one start that you’d like to throw out in the last couple months”, Mets manager Terry Collins said. The 25-year-old allowed two runs on 10 hits in six innings against Colorado on Friday but ended up with the loss in a 6-1 final. “I just try to see the ball and hit it, I got lucky and found some holes”. “No bad intentions there”.
DeGrom struggled to find a groove earlier this season as he recovered from throwing 216 innings a year ago and a hectic April in which he missed two starts because of an oblique injury and a trip home to be with his hospitalized newborn son, Jaxson. Michael Conforto (double), Matt Reynolds (single), pinch-hitter Yoenis Cespedes (single) and Neil Walker (double) all delivered run-scoring hits. Hours after trading slugger Carlos Beltran and pitcher Ivan Nova before the non-waiver deadline, the Yankees snapped a four-game slide.
“The only thing to do is focus on baseball”, Gregorius said. He says he’s a teacher at heart – admitting his best playing days are behind him, but that he still has something to offer – and that he’s at peace with being cut even if he doesn’t want that to happen.
New York Yankees Brett Gardner (11) sits at home plate after he was tagged out trying to stretch a first-inning triple into an inside-the-park home run during an interleague baseball game, Monday, Aug. 1, 2016, in New York.
The Mets have other issues beside injuries and their futility with runners in scoring position, which Bruce can not alone correct. The previous fastest was 15.20 seconds by both the Dodgers’ Yasiel Puig and Cleveland’s Jason Kipnis. And Asdrubal Cabrera – who has a strained patellar tendon in his left knee – likely is headed to the disabled list on Tuesday, when Niese and Bruce report and the Mets need to free two roster spots. Ruggiano exited in the fourth with a mild strain of his left hamstring, the team said.
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Should Sanchez start at catcher, he will form an all-rookie battery with right-hander Chad Green, who replaced Nova in the rotation. The showdown will remain in the borough for Games 1 and 2 on Monday and Tuesday before shifting to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx for Games 3 and 4 on Wednesday and Thursday.
