“No question about it. But I’d like to hit four homers a game”. NY won 3-12.
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Braves pitching prospect Aaron Blair will be called up to make his major league debut on Sunday against the Mets, the team announced. Manager Fredi Gonzalez said Inciarte is hitting in extended spring training games but not running full speed. But deGrom at 75% is still a darn good pitcher, and this afternoon, he threw 82 pitches, 59 for strikes, over 5.2 innings. “But I knew I had to go get some work done, and I think it was a time, a little bit to get my mind off of things and get away for a little bit”.
There was some solid contact against deGrom early on, when lots of his pitches were up, but he settled into a groove as the game went on.
The Tigers have lost three in a row and manager Brad Ausmus kept the clubhouse closed for 30 minutes after the most recent defeat.
After joining the Braves in the offseason trade that sent pitcher Shelby Miller to Arizona, the right-hander wasn’t roughed up.
Matz (2-1) allowed two runs on nine hits with eight strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings. The 27-year-old is 2-2 with a 1.95 ERA in five career starts against the Braves, going 0-1 with a 1.88 ERA in two outings in 2015. “I seem to be able to only hit lefties right now”. “It’s insane… coming here, realizing that your dream has come true”.
The Mets rallied with two runs in the sixth to give deGrom a 3-1 lead. He walked none and struck out three.
Jeurys Familia allowed a two-out RBI single in the ninth to Jeff Francoeur, but stranded two baserunners to earn his fifth save.
When Granderson scored on Conforto’s sacrifice fly, it marked the seventh time NY tallied in the first inning on its nine-game road trip.
Six different Mets (Curtis Granderson, Wright, Michael Conforto, Cabrera, Travis d’Arnaud, and Lagares) recorded two hits each, with Wright and Cabrera driving in two runs each. “He enjoys the opportunity he has playing in the majors, so I got to see behind the scenes of how he gets ready for games”.
After Asdrubal Cabrera made it 5-1 in the seventh with a two-out RBI single, the Braves knocked out Matz in the bottom half on Markakis’ RBI hit. Lucas Duda has also been pretty productive, with eight runs, 15 hits and 11 RBI. He aggravated his bruised right leg on Friday night while running the bases…. Today’s win for the Amazin’s came with both David Wright and Yoenis Cespedes out of the lineup as well. The starters have a 2.48 ERA during New York’s 7-2 stretch after compiling a 3.76 mark through the first seven games.
April 25, 2016The New York Mets needed to rebound on the road, and did just so winning 7-of-9 games.
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To make room on the roster for Blair, the Braves optioned LHP Matt Marksberry to Triple-A Gwinnett one day after calling him up.
