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Mets SS Cabrera departs with injured knee
Among the trio of Phillies players on that list of candidates was the man who took the mound on Saturday night against the New York Mets, a player almost everyone thought was on the way to a new team this time last month.
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Philadelphia squandered two chances to score early in the game, when Freddy Galvis was thrown out at home on a failed squeeze attempt and Altherr was cut down at the plate on Paredes’ fourth-inning RBI double.
In his first season in New York, Cabrera is slashing.269/.320/.444 with a.326 wOBA over 438 plate appearances in 2016.
The Philadelphia Phillies enter Sunday with a better record in August than the New York Mets. Meanwhile it’s wait until next year for the Phillies (59-70, 29-37 road) who have lost 12 of their last 14 series vs. the Mets. A contending team could have a greater need for pitching than they did a month ago, and they’d need to acquire Hellickson before September 1 in order for him to be eligible for a postseason roster.
On the next play, Cabrera was advancing to second base on a single into the outfield from utility man Kelly Johnson when he came up limping off the base.
“That took a little air out of the balloon”, Collins said. “It’s not all a cakewalk from here on out”.
The Mets (66-64) failed to gain ground on the Cardinals (68-61), who fell to the Athletics, 7-4, today, as the chase for the second wild card continues for the reigning National League champion.
The only other time he got two hits in a game was in August 2002 with the Montreal Expos against Milwaukee.
Manager Pete Mackanin has seen a completely different team over the last five games as well, a stretch in which Philadelphia has gone 1-4 while being outscored 42-11. One runner scored, but the ball caromed off the wall right to Bruce, who fired the ball in for a ideal relay to the plate to cut down the go ahead run.
The switch-hitting shortstop became the first Mets player to go deep from both sides in one game since Carlos Beltran at Colorado on May 12, 2011. DeGrom, who had assumed the ace’s mantle with Syndergaard’s deceleration, will sit out a round of the rotation because of how horribly he pitched in his prior two starts.
“It means a lot. I’ll take the positives out of this for my next time out, and hopefully we come out with the win”.
Phillies left-hander Adam Morgan (1-8) gave up two homers on his first five pitches but recovered.
Manager Terry Collins said before the game that Cespedes has a tight quadriceps, Walker has a stiff back and both would be out of the lineup for the contest.
Flores reached down and lofted the next delivery over the fence in left-center. “They make you feel good every time you do something special”.
Morgan, who has dropped eight straight decisions, allowed eight hits and matched a career high with eight strikeouts in five innings.
Morgan, hit by a line drive earlier this season, spun around and crouched in front of the mound as he caught his breath. The crowd let out a trio of collective groans as the big video board showed three replays of the ball whizzing just above Morgan’s head. “And I’ve got huge shoes to fill, I know that”. Dennis Martinez had 245 and Juan Marichal finished with 243.
Ellis struck out and grounded out in his first two at-bats.
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But long before that, this game was long gone.