The New York Mets and San Francisco Giants wrap up a four-game series in San Francisco on Sunday Night Baseball (8 p.m. ET on ESPN/WatchESPN).
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But there is such a thing as personal progress, and Samardzija made it while taking a no-hit bid further than he ever had Sunday night. The Cardinals lead the Mets by 4 ½ games in the race for the NL’s second wild-card berth, with the Marlins and Pirates sitting between the two teams.
The Giants dropped to second in the NL West after entering the day with a half-game lead on the Dodgers. But I like the way they’re coming out every day, their energy in the dugout.
“If we keep doing what I think we’re going to do, we’ll be fine”.
White Sox 6, A’s 2 • Chris Sale pitched eight scoreless innings for his first victory in 49 days, Jose Abreu homered and Chicago beat visiting Oakland. If nothing else, his laboring, 30-pitch first inning allowed him to get well acquainted with Buster Posey, who was catching him for the first time; Moore had thrown to backup Trevor Brown in his first three starts as a Giant. He had not gone more than 5 1/3 innings or thrown more than 90 pitches in his previous three starts. While he won his last start against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Syndergaard wasn’t performing at the same level.
“When he’s on top of his game, I don’t know who could hit him”. “But if you’re going to win, your good players have to play good”. It was a handsome game with the pitching on both sides. Bochy said the 27-year-old is developing a changeup in a rehab assignment with Triple-A Sacramento.
It was turning into such a stabilizing start for Samardzija (10-9), who had spent the past dozen starts fishtailing on the road while struggling with the age-old distinction between an adjustment and an overcorrection. He had a 4.04 ERA in his last nine starts prior to Sunday. He has three quality starts in four outings this month and a 2.25 ERA in August. He eliminated the back turn that he used to great success to begin the season.
The moment that best symbolized Moore s lack of command, though, came in the second inning when Colon could have had a pigeon perched on a shoulder while standing still in the batter s box with an 0-2 count.
Samardzija had retired 18 of 19 batters.
“I felt I wasn’t getting good swings on my curveball or my split, so we kept throwing it and kept them off my fastball”, Samardzija said.
The Mets have now won consecutive games for only the second time since July 6th and 7th.
If Samardzija had faced the minimum the rest of the way, he would have tangled with Reyes one more time with two outs in the ninth.
Miguel Rojas scored on an error in the third, and Ichiro Suzuki doubled down the right field line in the fourth – for his 3,008th hit in the majors to move into 28th place on the career list – ahead of Scruggs’ shot into the bleachers in left field.
The Giants, a half-game back, will enter this week’s three-game series either tied atop the division (the Dodgers play Cincinnati on Monday morning) or trailing the Dodgers by one game after losing to the New York Mets 2-0 in front of another national ESPN audience Sunday evening.
“He was hitting spots with his off-speed pitches”, Crawford said. “In the past, I want to say he wasn’t, and you could look fastball. which still isn’t easy when he’s throwing 99 miles per hour”.
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The Mets are batting.208 with runners in scoring position this season, which would be the worst mark by a team since the 1969 expansion San Diego Padres.
