He couldn’t. Or, at least, he didn’t.
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“I think I should have just gone to first right there in that situation”, Eovaldi said. I don’t think any of us wanted to see him struggle to the point he’s struggling this year, and that’s hard for me, too. If there’s no outs, I understand a little bit more going to second base.
Curtis Granderson led off the game with a home run into the right-field short porch off Chad Green, his Mets record 18th leadoff home run, one more than Jose Reyes.
Girardi has continually said he’s looking for ways to get A-Rod at-bats, checking out matchups on a daily basis.
“Backdoor slider, got ahead, fastball up and in and then backdoor slider again and he hit it out”, Eovaldi said of the Bruce home run.
That does seem to be the bigger problem here. Lucroy homered in the second inning, Carlos Beltran singled in a run in the fifth and Jeremy Jeffress pitched a scoreless seventh.
Atlanta’s Adonis Garcia scored from second on a stolen base attempt in the seventh inning as the Braves beat Pittsburgh 5-2 despite Ryan Vogelsong allowing only one run in six innings. That’s why you look at what he’s done with runners in scoring position, he’s put up huge numbers.
Mets OF Yoenis Cespedes (quad) served as the DH on Wednesday and went 1-for-5 with a single but tweaked the injury in his final at-bat and will be placed on the disabled list.3. “We are going to do a whole bunch of treatment”. We had our fun being outraged about it, but the truth is baseball fans will never know who did what (or who is still doing what).
“We envision him as a starter. You win two out of four, it’s not good enough”.
The incident came after Matz plunked Texeira on the leg in the 5th inning of a game the Yankees led 6-3.
HOUSTON – J.A. Happ won his ninth consecutive decision, Edwin Encarnacion reached 30 home runs for the fifth straight season and Toronto beat Houston for its eighth victory in 11 games. “Then he also elevated effectively, and we weren’t able to do much. He was just being Bart”.
By now, nothing Colon does catches hitters off guard, but he keeps having success with it. “It’s not like he has a real tough curveball or a real tough changeup that he mixes in”.
“It’s not an uncomfortable at-bat, but he obviously does a great job of getting guys out”, he said. It’s been a nice experience.
“He’s part of our team”, Girardi said. Hitting lefties has been Hicks’ specialty throughout his career, but this year, he’s been very bad against them. He got back in under the tag though, and there was no play at first base.
Now, it is no longer a question of when he will hit No. 700, but if, and judging from the way he has been used by the New York Yankees recently – i.e., not at all – and the statements of manager Joe Girardi about A-Rod’s prospects of future playing time, it might wind up being a surprise if he hits No. 697.
In these four games against the Mets, Jacoby Ellsbury went 6-for-17 including a two-hit game tonight. Drew Smyly allowed two runs, five hits, one walk and struck out 10 in seven innings.
NEW YORK (AP) – Mets slugger Yoenis Cespedes swung under an 0-1 changeup from Tyler Clippard, looked down and took a stiff step out of the batter’s box as he tried to stretch his sore right quadriceps.
“(Eovaldi) made a mistake with a cutter to Johnson.
“First and foremost, you just have to flat-out admit, it is not easy to eat…that kind of money”, Cashman said. Really, he got in trouble with the extra out.
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Mets’ Jay Bruce watching the flight of his three-run homer against the Yankees on Thursday.
