The lack of sleep didn’t seem to impact Freeman on Monday night. Teheran, who owns a 6-3 mark with a 2.44 ERA in his career against the Mets, looks to rebound after permitting five runs on six hits in 5 1/3 innings of a 7-5 setback to Miami on Wednesday.Gsellman received his second straight no-decision on Wednesday despite scattering five hits over 5 2/3 scoreless innings versus Washington.
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BALTIMORE – For just the second time this season and first since July 29, Rick Porcello went nine innings and he did it against one of the most feared lineups in baseball in hitter-friendly Camden Yards.
“It stings a little bit because the last two weeks every win is critical”, Syndergaard said. “It’s a disappointment. I didn’t go out there and get my job done”.
Mets: LHP Steven Matz (shoulder tightness) is to throw a bullpen Wednesday and could rejoin the rotation later this week.
Rookie right-hander Aaron Blair earned his first major league victory with six solid innings for the Braves (59-91), who have won three straight to improve to 9-8 this month.
Danny Espinosa hit a three-run homer and A.J. Cole allowed two runs and four hits in four innings for the Nationals.
The starter came within one out of escaping the inning with just the one run of damage, but then allowed an RBI single to Ender Inciarte in a 1-2 count to put the Mets behind, 2-0.
“He’s huge going down the line, he’s huge”.
Collins said he believed a few days off helped Neil Walker earlier this year, and hopes for the same with Bruce. I’ve already been on record as saying they need to add some veteran pitchers to the staff and not just the “off the scrap heap” kind, but my fear is that won’t happen unless it is clear this wasn’t close to a playoff team. And we didn’t swing the bats like we have been.
“We (had) to do some things we certainly weren’t planning on”, Collins said.
Again, if they finish, say, one or two games out of the wild-card, the rationalization then becomes Andrew McCutchen didn’t have a good year, Gerrit Cole and Francisco Liriano didn’t have good years and clearly that was the difference between making the playoffs and not making it.
It’s Mets at Cardinals on October 3 for the top wild-card spot. It comes in a three-way tie for the two wild-card spots.
The Mets loss allowed the St. Louis Cardinals to pick up a game in the standings after they defeated the Colorado Rockies 5-3. Thor somehow hadn’t faced the Braves yet this season and now wishes he still hadn’t.
– Freeman has more home runs in his career against the Mets (18) than any other team, and this season he’s hit.397 (27-for-68) with 11 extra-base hits against them.
Syndergaard started to falter in a 35-pitch second inning that included consecutive walks and RBI singles by Swanson and Inciarte, the first on a 99.9 miles per hour fastball and the second on a slider.
Freddie Freeman continued his road mastery of the New York Mets Monday night, when the Atlanta Braves first baseman collected four hits – including a homer – and three RBIs to lead the Braves to a 7-3 win at Citi Field.
Collins pulled Syndergaard (99 pitches) following Matt Kemp’s subsequent infield single, replacing him with lefty Sean Gilmartin.
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The Mets, who needed five relievers to get the final 13 outs Sunday in a 3-2 win over the Minnesota Twins, had to rely on five pitchers to throw the final 5 1/3 innings Monday. “Completely out of character”.
