“I checked with him in the third to see if he could hit and he said he didn’t feel great”.
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Mets rookie Robert Gsellman allowed four runs and seven hits in five innings. New York INF Wilmer Flores left Saturday’s game with a neck contusion after an eighth-inning collision at home plate with Atlanta C A.J. Pierzynski. 3.
James Loney homered to make it 6-0 in the fourth.
The loss of Flores for any extended period of time would be problematic for Mets manager Terry Collins, who uses Flores as his swiss army knife. He is 3-1 with a 1.99 ERA in five career starts after joining the rotation on August 19.
Asdrubal Cabrera hit a one-out triple to right-center that Nick Markakis whiffed on while trying to catch, and Cespedes drove him home with a sharp groundout for a 1-0 edge.
As they did a year ago when the Mets were here on September 11, the Braves played a video commemorating that emotional game between the two teams on September 21, 2001, the first major league game played in the city after the attacks.
Atlanta cut the lead to 2-1 in the bottom half of the first on Kemp’s sacrifice fly.
BREWERS 2, CARDINALS 1: Ryan Braun hit a solo home run in the ninth inning, and visiting Milwaukee dropped St. Louis back in the NL wild-card race. The Braves put on a touching tribute with members of the military carrying out the American flag, bagpipes playing “Amazing Grace”, police officers offering a 21-gun salute and ultimately a moment of silence.
Lugo, 26, worked out of a bases-loaded, none-out jam in the fourth after the Braves already had pushed across a run. He has hit safely in 28 of his last 29 games since August 1 and is hitting.362 over that span. RHP Jacob deGrom (right forearm soreness) threw 10 pitches off a mound in his tennis shoes.
Steven Matz likely will throw a second bullpen session on Monday, according to Collins, increasing from his 20-pitch workload Saturday. By Sunday morning, the veteran catcher was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained hamstring, potentially ending his 19-year major-league career.
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The 39-year-old wasn’t at the ballpark Sunday, but his jersey still hung in his locker and his name plate was in place. The Mets will counter with Rafael Montero, Noah Syndergaard and Robert Gsellman. He went 1 for 4. The Dominican Republic native has let up one run in 15 innings versus Atlanta this season and is 5-1 with a 1.51 ERA in six career starts at Turner Field.
