Giancarlo Stanton is back, but New York Mets folk hero Wilmer Flores never left.
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DeGrom battled to get through seven innings, limiting the damage to two home runs.
Miami Marlins right fielder Giancarlo Stanton leaps but can’t reach Alejandro de Aza’s pinch …
Addison Reed worked a ideal eighth and All-Star closer Jeurys Familia got three outs for his major league-best 30th save. “One guy gets hot and others get cold”.
Reyes actually started at shortstop, not his newly adopted third base, because Asdrubal Cabrera needed to be scratched shortly before the first pitch due to what the team announced was “a family illness that kept him up all night”. Entering Tuesday, Stanton had no multi-HR games on the season and he now has two in as many days. And when the Nationals arrive on Thursday for the first of a four-game set, they encounter a surging Mets squad that has won six of their last seven games, the latest a 4-2 triumph over the Marlins on Wednesday. Reyes served a suspension under t. Now a ideal 2-for-2 with two RBI, two runs scored and one walk on Wednesday, Stanton has notably driven in all seven of the Marlins’ runs over the course of the last two days. His one-out homer in the second gave the Mets a 1-0 lead, and hits leadoff homer in the fourth extended the advantage to 4-1. I’ll back deGrom but he doesn’t get help so it’s risky…
Stanton said he wasn’t aware of the historic significance of the at-bat in the moment.
The Mets hope to carry this momentum into their weekend series with the Nationals, which is followed by the All Star Break.
Conversely, the last “W” Nicolino has seen had a hotel under it, as he has gone 0-5 with five no-decisions and a 6.31 ERA since a victory on May 3rd. The 36-year-old Kelly is married to the older sister of Mets 2B Neil Walker, who twice threw out Kelly on grounders. “Feels like I’m with a family here in NY”. The Marlins are scheduled to send Justin Nicolini to the hill to oppose the Mets for the second time in 2016.
Two innings later, Reyes led off with another double down the third base line. Curtis Granderson picked up a hit with runners in scoring position to drive in two, helping NY to its sixth win in the last seven games.
“I know there’s going to be some people that are going to hate me”, Reyes said.
Yoenis Cespedes extended his hitting streak to nine games with a single and gave NY a 1-0 lead in the fourth with his 21 home run.
Taking the mound at the bottom of the third to replace starter Chris Young, who gave up six runs in two innings, Wang pitched 2.2 innings against the Toronto Blue Jays, giving up one run while striking out three, a season-tying best.
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“Big city, bright lights”, he said.
