Cabrera missed 17 games with a strained patella tendon in his left knee, returning on August 19 and was batting.438 (14 for 32) with three home runs and nine runs batted in since returning to the NY lineup.
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The Mets have been ignited by the return of Jose Reyes, Asdrubal Cabrera and Yoenis Cespedes, all of whom were on the disabled list earlier this month. Hellickson (L, 10-8) ran into more problems in the fifth, putting two men on with two out in the fourth inning.
“The waves of emotion are getting farther and farther apart, which is a good thing”, Ellis said. Philadelphia Phillies’ Adam Morgan winds up during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets on Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, in New York. Coming off eight shutout innings against the Giants last Sunday, the big right-hander allowed just two hits over seven innings, his only blemish hanging a curveball that Freddy Galvin deposited into the seats for the Phillies’ lone run.
The Mets entered having scored 31 runs over their last three games, including three homers by Cabrera during that span.
“The amusing thing about it is we are 11-and-11 in the month of August”, Mackanin said.
The score was 1-all in the seventh when Philadelphia loaded the bases with nobody out on singles by Tommy Joseph, Aaron Altherr and Jimmy Paredes off Robert Gsellman (1-1), who was very effective to that point in his first major league start.
“It was a lot more fun catching those guys than hitting against them”, Ellis joked.
Ruiz was sent with cash to the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday, a day off for the Phillies. The Mets have outscored the Phillies 21-5 in the first two contests to improve to 66-63 overall and pull within 2 1/2 games of the St. Louis Cardinals for the second wild card. Granted, the past two wins have come against the fast-fading Phillies, but the first four came against contenders – the San Francisco Giants and Cardinals.
“With the way all of a sudden we’ve played here in the last four or five days, it took a little air out of the balloon”, manager Terry Collins said. Noah Syndergaard was the winning pitcher for the Mets. The California native took over for Niese in that game to throw 3 2/3 scoreless innings.
“Right now I’m just better able to locate my sinker to both sides of the plate”, Syndergaard said.
Making his second career start against the Phillies at Citi Field, Syndergaard has not allowed a run through 14 1/3 innings.
Phillies: Bourjos was hit by a 97 miles per hour fastball on the left wrist.
Dare it be said that the New York Mets look legit, or at least as legit as they’re going to look given their shortcomings and short-staffing. He’s failed to reach the sixth inning in any of his previous four. He walked 2 batters and struck out 7.
Collins said RHP Rafael Montero will be recalled from Double-A Binghamton to start Monday night against Miami in place of struggling RHP Jacob deGrom, who is skipping a turn.
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The Phillies are 4-1 in their last five game threes of a series, and 1-5 in Velasquez’s last six starts in game three of a series.
