New York Mets relief pitcher Jerry Blevins covers his mouth with his into his glove while leaving the mound in the 12th inning of the Mets’ 3-2 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks in a baseball game Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, in New York.
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Hernandez played 18 games with Arizona in 2015 as a winter meeting draft pick from Tampa Bay, missing much of the season with a broken left hamate bone.
NEW YORK: The Mets have dropped 11 of 14 at home and are just 1-4 in their last five games overall. “Some guys have in the past, and it was good to get him playing again”. As I have said so many times, I don’t care who isn’t here. But it might have sent the New York Mets spiraling into a hole from which they won’t be able to emerge. Ray made his only previous appearance against NY last season and worked five scoreless innings on June 4 without factoring in the decision.Colon is looking for some consistency after trading wins and losses in his last five starts. They rank dead last in the majors in batting average with RISP, productive outs, and stolen bases. People who pay to see me play are going to see my best effort’.
“We’re all responsible, every single one of us, the coaches, me, the players we are all in this together”, Collins said.
There is still plenty of time for them to get on a run, but they are wasting games against opponents that they should be beating. “The names on their backs and on the front of their uniforms say they are a Major League Baseball player. It starts with them”.
NY remained 2 1/2 games back of the Marlins for the second NL wild card.
The Mets were hoping to go back to the World Series, now they are a.500 team, trying to survive the fight for the watered-down second wild card. You come you owe a responsible to the fans, our fan base and the organization, to yourself the respect for this game to grind it out. I believe in team just as you guys do. You can not say woe is me at this level. You can not do it. Those who get out of it stay here a long time. You need a little bit of both – getting the job done, a little bit of luck, a little bit of everything sometimes.
“I think after I got my first hit, it kind of felt like, OK, a lot of weight comes off”, Rivera said.
As for the Mets, they’re 17-6 in their last 23 Friday games, and 1-4 in Verrett’s last five home starts. “I just thought with the momentum, the energy, I thought we were going to get a base hit and win the game”.
Marwin Gonzalez also had four hits and George Springer had two hits, knocked in three runs and scored three times.
Johnson’s blast was needed after Ray spun seven shutout innings, scattering three hits and striking out four.
Bartolo Colon started for the Mets, allowing one run on seven hits, striking out eight over seven innings of work.
The Diamondbacks stole four bases on Thursday and 13 in the three games. “It’s really mechanical”, Syndergaard said.
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Arizona came out running, with Segura swiping his 20th base and Bourn also stealing in the first. His in-game blunders and overuse of the bullpen do not compare to the team’s lack of passion, inability to hit with runners in scoring position, failure to make productive outs, and many other things where the responsibility falls more on the players than the manager.
