The Diamondbacks (46-66) alternated wins with losses in their last four games. NY came into the game with a minus-67 stolen base differential, the worst mark in the majors.
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That low came this afternoon, when the Arizona Diamondbacks completed an embarrassing three game sweep of the Mets with a 9-0 shutout. During the three-game sweep, NY was outscored 17-5 and allowed 13 stolen bases. “You just start to get frustrated”, said Paul Goldschmidt, who reached base five times and swiped second and third in the fifth inning.
Walker said a couple of players added their voices to Collins’ in the meeting. So obviously our starting pitching is the key, as we saw. “And right now we’re just kind of sliding and not getting much of (anything)”. No matter the amount of injuries that the Mets had or still now have, and they do have a lot, they should be able to take a series from the lowly Diamondbacks.
On Tuesday, the Arizona Diamondbacks arrived in NY with a 45-66 record, firmly in last place in the National League West division. The 87 runs are the fewest of any major league club in that span.
Arizona stole 13 bases in the series, the most in a three-game series against the Mets. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Mets gave up 12 steals to the Chicago Cubs during a series in April 1990.
Johnson and his teammates got an earful Thursday afternoon from manager Terry Collins, who followed up a fiery press conference in which he appeared to question his players’ effort by closing the locker room for a meeting that lasted almost 20 minutes.
“They are Major League Baseball players”. But managers of underperforming teams get fired. “He can speak his mind and get out what he wants to get out. And that’s all I have to say”.
Rookie right-hander Braden Shipley will make his fourth career start when he takes the mound for the 12:10 ET game. Socrates Brito (double) and Tuffy Gosewich (triple) had run-scoring hits earlier in the inning.
Noah Syndergaard dodged troubled in two of his first three innings but wasn’t as fortunate in the fourth when he surrendered three runs. Ray has lost his last three starts despite striking out 30 and walking just five over 16 2/3 innings in that span.
I think it’s both, definitely on both. “So that was a lot of run to see”. Syndergaard has faced Arizona once in his young career and struck out a career-high 13 while allowing one run and four hits across eight innings on July 10, 2015.WALK-OFFS1. But the wins need to start coming or Collins could be. But I know one thing, starting tomorrow, we’re back fresh.
“We’ve got to find a groove here”, Johnson said. Because in Las Vegas there is a whole clubhouse of guys that want to sit in this room. I don’t care where they came from.
“They got here because of the grind-it-out at-bats”.
Drury started in right field in place of Yasmany Tomas, a late scratch because of a stiff neck.
Diamondbacks: Dr. Don Sheridan, the Diamondbacks orthopedic hand specialist, was to operate Thursday to stabilize a tendon in the left wrist of OF David Peralta, who crashed into the outfield wall in Arizona on August 5. He played five innings at third base, going 0-for-1 with two walks, two steals and a run. The losses dropped the Mets to 57-56 on the season.
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The Mets are in a stretch of the schedule where they should be making hay by beating up on bad teams, but instead they’re sliding.
