Teheran said the arm was sore, but the real pain came in watching from the dugout as the New York Mets rallied for four runs in the eighth inning for a 6-4 win over the Braves after he left the game Friday night.
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Julio Teheran and the Braves led 4-0 after five innings.
Matt Kemp homered and Markakis had a two-run single for last-place Atlanta, which has lost four straight. The Cardinals are a half-game behind the Mets for the second wild card.
Lugo was excellent today, going seven innings, giving up two runs on six hits, while walking one and striking out five. They won eight straight from April 22-30.
“It’s OK. It’s a little bit sore”, Teheran said.
“I felt good”, Colon said. It got my skin. “I’m going to throw it in the strike zone – quality pitches, quality location and let them get themselves out”. “I just made a mistake”.
Corey Dickerson, Logan Forsythe and Brad Miller homered as the Tampa Bay Rays ended the Yankees’ seven-game winning streak with a 4-2 win.
NY led 1-0 in the first when Asdrubal Cabrera tripled and scored on Cespedes’ groundout.
MARINERS 3, A’S 2: Ketel Marte hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth, and visiting Seattle stayed 3½ games behind in the AL wild-card race.
A year later the stakes are much different, but for the Mets another big September series in Washington begins Monday night.
When the Mets talked to him this winter about coming back with the likelihood he would be moved to the bullpen once Zack Wheeler returned from his Tommy John surgery rehab, Colon signed up. Walker announced plans for the operation on September 1. RHP Jacob deGrom (right forearm soreness) threw 10 pitches off a mound in his tennis shoes.
With the Braves moving to a new ballpark next year, the Mets went 67-106 in 20 years at Turner Field. The Braves hope Albies is ready for spring training.
Former Centenary baseball player Seth Lugo continues to find success as a starting pitcher for the NY Mets. The rookie is 3-1 with a 1.99 ERA in five career starts.
There have been plenty of experts who questioned why the Atlanta Braves would hold onto Freddie Freeman during their rebuild, but as the Braves host the New York Mets in the finale of a three-game series Sunday, their first baseman has shown he is a franchise cornerstone. The blister has popped and Lugo is scheduled to start on Sunday.
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Cespedes drove in the game’s first five runs off Williams Perez (2-3), who gave up four hits, five runs and one walk and struck out two in 2 2/3 innings.
