A sellout crowd at Comerica Park watched as Bruce left second base and raced around third with two outs to try to complete a five-run comeback. Martinez charged the ball, and his one-hop throw home was in time to get Bruce.
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Jay Bruce his second home run as a Met on Saturday, and his 27th of the season. It was Rodriguez’s second career game-ending homer and his 11th home run of the season.
“I was kind of in a way anticipating it a little bit”, Martinez said. The Mets instead continued to slide in a 6-5 defeat at Detroit Saturday.
NY will send right-hander Logan Verrett out to face Detroit for the first time when he starts Saturday night against the Tigers.
The future does not look good for the Mets unless they can get a spark to propel them to win two or more games in a row, something that has not happened since early July. He set the tone with a seven-pitch first inning and walked off the mound after the top of the sixth inning as the American League leader in innings pitched and strikeouts, a Cy Young Award contender once again. “This makes the game all the more frustrating”.
NEW YORK – Mark Teixeira plans to retire at the end of the season, announcing his decision during a tear-filled news conference Friday at Yankee Stadium. Two runs scored as a result, and a 6-3 lead became a close 6-5 ballgame.
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) ” Eddie Rosario had a pinch-hit two-run homer in the seventh inning and Miguel Sano homered and had three hits as Minnesota beat Tampa Bay.
NY trailed 6-1 before rallying with two runs each in the fifth and seventh, and with men on first and second and two out in the ninth, Travis d’Arnaud poked a single into right field.
Bruce, who popped out to second with runners on first and third and one out in the first, hit his second home run as a Met to tie the game leading off the fourth. Collins admitted he should have challenged anyway. “At least we fought back and made it a game. That was the best part”. With Logan Verrett set to face Matt Boyd in the pitching matchup, the over/under now sits at 9.5 runs.
Syndergaard (9-6) allowed four runs – three during a 30-pitch fourth inning – on seven hits in six innings. That’s a step down – there’s a reason that the Tigers are paying Zimmermann $110 million over the next five years – but there have been several times this year where the Tigers didn’t have any pitching depth at all.
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“It’s certainly hard to understand why we’re going like that”. Martinez on a would-be tying single from Travis d’Arnaud, who had been hitless in his first four at-bats. Rivera has a stronger arm and works well with the pitchers, but Collins did not want Rivera to be the catcher in case he needed to pinch-hit for him later in the game. “If the situation comes where we need to pinch-hit, it’s easier to pinch-hit for the DH and if he’s catching you got to hit for him and you got to put the DH in the game”, Collins said. “We did it the other way”.
