For the third time in as many games, the Mets lost to the Rockies, this time 7-2. In other words, it looks like it will be a soggy weekend, though Saturday and Sunday’s games can certainly be played. He left the game in the bottom of the fourth inning with a jammed left thumb.
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“Asked about the direction his team was going in, Collins had a simple answer: “[We’ve lost] four in a row. “And I pitched good enough to get 100 wins”. “I think they’re going to bounce back”, Mets manager Terry Collins said. “That’s how we are thinking right now”. Syndergaard is winless in his last three starts despite producing a 2.76 ERA during that span. He won his lone career start against the Rockies last August 13 when he allowed three runs in seven innings in the Mets’ 12-3 victory. If they want to get into the playoffs they need to spend a lot of money to get some good players. (Overall in his 16-year career hit 427.) The moment that will forever define his time in NY was his eighth-inning, two-run homer against the Atlanta Braves on September 21, 2001, in the first Mets game back in the city after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
“To have it with me on my plaque through eternity is overwhelming”, Piazza said Saturday. 500 (53-50) for the first time since June 29. “And then in the middle of the game I could see a difference, and I said what’s going on, and he said, “My legs are getting tight.’ So I said, ‘I got to get you out of there” with the field the way it is, ‘” Collins said. They took an early 2-0 lead, but Bartolo Colon went from no-hitting Colorado through three innings to giving up plenty of hits in the fourth. He walked one while striking out five over six innings.NOTES: The Mets placed CF Juan Lagares (sprained left thumb) on the 15-day disabled list and recalled OF Brandon Nimmo from Triple-A Las Vegas.
Ruggiano got a hit, but also overran a ball in center field for an error and was thrown out stealing on a replay reversal. Carlos Gonzalez followed with a drive to right-centre and Ruggiano ran a long way and made a diving try on the warning track, only to have the ball glance off his glove for a double.
The Rockies expanded the lead in the fifth when a DJ LeMahieu single brought home De La Rosa and Blackmon to make it 5-2.
Conventional wisdom says that Story’s power numbers would take a significant dip on the road, but he’s managed to crack 11 of his 27 home runs away from Coors Field. The Rockies added two more runs in the fifth. His left knee was bruised Friday night when he was hit by a ball during batting practice. Travis d’Arnaud, Yoenis Cespedes and Loney then were each retired while swinging at the first pitch they saw from right-hander Scott Oberg. He stepped gingerly leaving the batter’s box and jogged down the line.
Colon (9-6) threw 87 pitches in his last outing, a 3-1 win over St. Louis in the second game of a doubleheader on Tuesday.
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He left with the Mets trailing 2-1, but Mark Reynolds homered in the eighth off Erik Goeddel and Carlos Gonzalez, after Antonio Bastardo walked Nolan Arenado to get to him, launched a three-run shot to right in the ninth. The win, was DLR’s 85 in a Rockies uniform and could be his last.
