Steven Strasburg remained unbeaten with an 11-strikeout performance, and the Washington Nationals hit three of their season-high five home runs off struggling New York Mets starter Matt Harvey in a 7-5 win Tuesday.
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Mets: New York relievers had a run of 16 1/3 scoreless innings over five games before Bastardo gave up Revere’s first homer of the season.
After ending the Mets’ win streak last night will the Nationals pick up back-to-back wins against the division rivals with a victory today at 1:05PM ET?
Asked specifically about the bullpen as an option for Harvey, Collins said: “I’m not going there just yet”. “I am definitely trying to learn from that, to try to ride the roller coaster and stay consistent”.
If it serves as any consolation, Harvey’s 2016 stats through May 24 (6.07 ERA, 1.69 WHIP, .330 opponent BA) closely match Strasburg’s numbers through the same point last season (6.50 ERA, 1.69 WHIP, .321 opponent BA). Harvey’s fastball routinely registered 96 miles per hour early in the outing before dipping in the middle innings. “There are a lot of things to consider”. After a night’s rest on Tuesday, Wright got the Mets going with a one-out, line-drive solo home run to left-center field off Tanner Roark.
The club will announce what its plans are for Harvey late Wednesday. Instead, Harvey left without a word and the organization is now left with a big decision surrounding their ace who is now sporting a 6.08 ERA.
The Mets considered skipping Harvey’s start afte the Nationals beat him up for nine runs in two and two-thirds innings last week. “This guy is too good. But the guy tonight he faced was in a similar spot past year”.
Washington’s Strasburg improved to 8-0.
“Gio continues to be one of our best pitchers”, manager Dusty Baker told MLB’s official website. Jayson Werth and Daniel Murphy (two hits) began the ninth with singles before Familia fanned Ryan Zimmerman for the first out and got Anthony Rendon on a fielder’s choice and then retired Wilson Ramos for the final out.
CHICAGO (AP) – Brett Lawrie broke a fifth-inning tie with a three-run homer, Todd Frazier added his 14th of the season and Chicago held on to Cleveland in the opener of a doubleheader. INF Matt Reynolds came on to play short in the last of the first and got his first big-league hit in the fifth – a single to right…. Both Murphy and Rendon hit homers on Tuesday.
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“It’s a very hard task to replace Duda”, Cespedes said through a translator after hitting his major league-leading 15th home run. Baseball’s oldest player struck out two and walked two. Since he allowed one run and one hit in six innings at Arizona on Wednesday, Yankees starting pitchers have a 1.76 ERA and the team’s earned-run average has dropped from 4.48 to 4.09. On Friday, former Maryland defensive back Sean Davis signed a four-year contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Crews will fight China’s Xiaoli Yang at 7 a.m. Thursday.
