Niese was lifted from Tuesday’s game against the Cardinals after he felt a noticeable pain in his left knee.
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“It’s another game that we lose in which I start and the offense scores some runs”, Wainwright said. They’ve lost Matt Harvey-who had a 4.86 ERA in 17 starts-for the season, and likely the same story goes for first baseman Lucas Duda and third baseman David Wright.
The Cardinals and Mets close out their three-game series tonight at Busch Stadium. Reed gave up an infield single to load the bases, but got two nifty plays from Jose Reyes at third to escape the inning allowing only one run.
Right-hander Erik Goeddel was recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas to fill the roster spot.
“One of the things about him, he knows his role”, Collins said about De Aza. The Mets led 3-0 in the fifth when Wainwright (9-8) and Cespedes were involved in a unusual sequence.
Grichuk has played in 11 games since returning from the minors and has 12 extra-base hits, including five home runs, pushing his season total to 17. Those runs came off of Jim Henderson, who came on to replace starter Seth Lugo, who left the mound with an unspecified injury after throwing his warmups before the sixth.
Speaking through an interpreter, Cespedes stayed on message, saying his focus is on “helping the team win so we can hopefully make it to the playoffs”. The A’s will counter with Ross Detwiler (1-2, 5.91 ERA). “He doesn’t have to like it, but he accepts it and he gets himself ready”.
“This was a tough series”, Collins said.
Niese walked two batters, sandwiched around a lineout by Stephen Piscotty, before allowing an RBI single to Brandon Moss.
Lugo also picked up his first career hit in the fourth inning.
“He just didn’t have that movement, didn’t get to work ahead in counts”, Cardinals Manager Mike Matheny said. Loney is hitting.529 (18 for 34) against Wainwright for his career.
Bruce began the night hitting.158 in 20 games since being acquired in a trade from Cincinnati.
The Mets announced Wednesday that Niese will have arthroscopic surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery on Thursday to fix a torn meniscus.
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The Mets finished their 10 game road trip 5-5, but did go 4-1 over the last five games of the trip.
