Jose Reyes, playing his first game in Marlins Park since 2012, had a major role in three NY rallies as the Mets defeated the Miami Marlins 5-3 on Friday night.James Loney added a two-run homer in the ninth, turning on a 95-mph fastball from reliever Fernando Rodney and pulling it to the upper deck in right field.
Advertisement
With the loss, the third-place Mets (51-45) trail the Marlins by 1 1⁄2 games for the second wild-card spot.
As we learned in the Home Run Derby, Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton can absolutely crush a baseball.
Stanton now has six homers and 12 RBIs in 10 games against the Mets this season. Despite being only 26 years old, Stanton has the fourth-most homers among active players against the Mets with 27, trailing only Ryan Howard (46), Chase Utley (38) and unemployed Jimmy Rollins (33).
DeGrom (6-5) allowed 10 hits and five runs, both season highs, and lasted just 3 2/3 innings in his shortest outing since August.
“I just think I wasn’t very good and pretty much everything I threw seemed to go down the middle and I paid for it”, deGrom said. “I’ll tell you one thing about the Japanese – they don’t kid”.
The Mets had a chance to claw back against Fernandez. The veteran speedster made his mark in Friday’s 5-3 win, however, with an RBI single among his three hits. But Loney flied out to shallow left and Asdrubal Cabrera struck out, making him hitless in his last 31 at-bats with runners in scoring position. Miami is also 1-4 in Urena’s last five home starts, and 1-5 in Urena’s last six starts overall. He was steadfast and kept working hard for what he got. For example, they’re 3-9 in their last 12 road games versus a team with a winning record and 2-7 in their last nine road games versus a team with a winning home record.
Stanton hit a no-doubter in the third inning against Mets starter Jacob deGrom at Marlins Park. But it was short-lived.
He gave up a two-out double to Adeiny Hechavarria and an RBI-single to Fernandez in the second and in the third Yelich led off with a double and Stanton hit his monstrous two-run homer off the left-field scoreboard giving the Marlins back the lead at 3-2.
deGrom had a 0.93 ERA in his previous four starts and was coming off a complete game, one-hit shutout against the Phillies in his last outing. Jacob deGrom matchup would still be must-watch television. “It doesn’t help when you throw 30 pitches an inning”, he said. “A lot of pitches in the middle of the plate, a lot of balls up”. I saw [Marlins hitting coach Barry] Bonds, I was with Barry for a long time, and I saw them get him out, too.
Michael Conforto stroked a pinch-hit single in the sixth and played center field for the first time in his career.
Probably not, says New York Mets manager Terry Collins, who managed in Japan and is a friend of Suzukis.
Helping out at the plate, we’ve got a nice assortment of NY hitters.
“But as far as how it felt out there, I felt pretty comfortable. I’m just going to be getting more work at it every single day”. He drove in Yoenis Cespedes, who was hit by a pitch with two outs. Granderson was a center fielder until he reached the twilight of his career.
Advertisement
The Mets will be rolling out lefty Steven Matz for the start on Sunday.
