Cespedes has said he believes golf helps his baseball swing, but this is the second time he’s suffered an injury after playing earlier in the day. The 43-year-old righty, who spent 2011 with the Yankees, became the first pitcher to win a Subway Series game for each NY team, the Elias Sports Bureau said.
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The Mets lost for the sixth time in eight games, including two of three to the Yankees this week.
“There’s a relationship and I truly care about him”.
“I can’t really tell you exactly when I’m going to play him”, manager Joe Girardi said.
The Mets recalled outfielder Brandon Nimmo from triple-A Las Vegas to fill Cespedes roster spot.
Here’s (some) of what Rodriguez accomplished in his years in New York: Two league MVP awards, a World Series championship, 2009 ALCS MVP, 351 home runs, 1,094 RBI, 137 OPS+, 54.4 WAR, seven All-Star Game appearances, seven top-15 AL MVP finishes and three Silver Sluggers. Bruce is more of a 1-4 with a homerun type guy which isn’t bad to have in the lineup, but he won’t turn into an elite superstar player like Cespedes.
Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said Thursday he and Cespedes arrived at a “mutual understanding” he would stay away from the golf course while recovering from an injury to his right quad. But that message will get to him at least circuitously and probably directly..
Alderson’s comments are likely a reflection of the backlash Cespedes faced on social media following his placement on the disabled list, but angry fans will be angry fans and sometimes they need to be ignored.
In retrospect its probable that we should have just put him on the DL at the beginning of this episode, Alderson said. “Hopefully at the end of two weeks he’ll be back and hopefully 100 percent or close to it, and we’ll go from there”.
Actually, Alderson might be the one dealing with reality here. He ran that drought to 0-for-10 on Thursday before belting a three-run homer to right-center off New York Yankees right-hander Nathan Eovaldi.
Alex Rodriguez was back on the Yankees’ bench Thursday.
Chad Green and Matz (8-8) both struggled at the start, and Luis Severino (1-6) came out of the bullpen with 4 1/3 innings of one-hit relief for his first big league win since last September 27.
Newly promoted Gary Sanchez started at DH and got two hits. The Yankees announced RHP Luis Severino will start Tuesday in Boston.
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The Mets (56-52) won for the ninth time in their last 23 games thanks to Bruce, who had been hitless in his first 10 at-bats after being acquired from the Cincinnati Reds on Monday and last 19 overall since homering off San Francisco Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner on July 27.
