Actress Sarah Jessica Parker, snaps a cell phone photo with her husband, Broadway actor Matthew Broderick on the field before a baseball game between the New York Mets and the New York Yankees in New York, Sunday, September 20, 2015. The Mets are looking to tie the season series as the Yankees won two of three when these teams met at Yankee Stadium in April. “Skipping Noah, he’s come back and has thrown the ball really well”. They have a 4.5-game lead over the Houston Astros for the top wild card spot.
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In the AL East the Blue Jays lead the Yankees by 2 games as the two start a three games series tonight in Toronto.
On the other hand, there has been no hotter team over the past month and a half than the Mets. 65 record, the boys of Flushing have a six game lead over the Washington Nationals in the National League Eastern Division. Until they reach the playoffs, it will remain that way.
A foundering offense into July, the Mets have taken off since the arrival of Yoenis Cespedes, Juan Uribe and Kelly Johnson. On Friday, Syndergaard brought his teammates a box of black T-shirts with “Yo Knows Beisbol” in yellow, orange and blue, which the pitcher got from the website barstoolsports.com.
That leaves the ageless wonder Bartolo Colon.
Sabathia has struggled for the most part of the 2015 season and at the end of August many thought his season was over when he injured his knee. He is allowing too many home runs, he isn’t going deep into games and he isn’t getting the strikeouts he used to. He’s thrown 14 scoreless innings in two starts in NL ballparks, both with Seattle. He will play catch for first time on Monday. Mets fans still boo him, angry he took a bases-loaded called third strike from St. Louis pitcher Adam Wainwright that ended the seventh game of the 2006 NL Championship Series with New York trailing 3-1.
Harvey’s workload has been a hot-button issue within the organization in recent weeks, as the “Dark Knight” approaches his doctor-recommended 180-inning limit following undergoing Tommy John reconstructive elbow surgery in October 2013.
Stephen Strasburg was 2-0 in two starts and allowed one earned run while striking out 24 in 15 innings this week. “Let’s not forget that he’s 40 years old, and trying to run him out there for defense, there’s probably not going to be a ton of range, and it’s something that he’s not comfortable doing”.
The team has pulled Harvey back a little bit as he approaches 180 innings.
Harvey gave up a three-run homer to Justin Bour in the fourth inning and, after Lucas Duda got the Mets on the board with a solo shot in the bottom of that frame, Martin Prado’s RBI single in the fifth restored Miami’s three-run edge.
With the win, the Yankees improved to 82-66 on the season.
Before Monday’s game with the Braves, Collins was asked about pulling Harvey – and he clearly wasn’t happy. And now you’ve got your No. 1 pitcher, you’ve got to watch what he does.
“But it’s for the best of all of them”.
Mets: Swing Early in the Count. Three pitches later, he was crossing home plate, courtesy of a Wright double to right-center. On the second pitch, the average drops to.370 but he has given up eight home runs.
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“Moving forward, I want this kid on the pitching staff”.
