New York Mets’ Yoenis Cespedes follows through on a two-run home run off Cincinnati Reds relief pitcher Michael Lorenzen during the seventh inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016, in Cincinnati.
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Adam Morgan snapped his major league-worst streak of nine consecutive losses, Odubel Herrera scored three runs and the Philadelphia Phillies spoiled Miami slugger Giancarlo Stanton’s return by beating the reeling Marlins 4-3 on Tuesday night. “We’re in our world right now”.
BRIEFS: Wilmer Flores’ two-run homer in the eighth gave him 16 on the season and matched his career high.
The Mets, winners of 13 straight games against Cincinnati, try to complete another sweep of the Reds on Wednesday at 12:35 p.m. ET at Great American Ball Park.
Today’s win pulled the Mets to within a half game of the St. Louis Cardinals and a game of the San Francisco Giants in the wild card standings.
“There’s still a lot of baseball left”, he said. I hope we don’t have one of these for a while. New York’s defense and a few baserunning blunders by the Reds helped him toss five scoreless innings.
It was 87 degrees and humid at game time, and that might’ve taken a toll on Syndergaard.
They’ve been a refreshing, fun revelation that I never envisioned at the start of the season, especially when slightly down on Cabrera this past winter and with Reyes suspended and with the Rockies to start the year. “I don’t know if it was the weather, but command was not there today of pretty much any of his pitches”. He gave us five.
Jeurys Familia notched his major-league leading 47th save.
The top spots in the order can negate Granderson’s struggles with runners in scoring position, but batting lower in the lineup provides more chances to drive in runs. But the Mets did hold on and Syndergaard struck out seven, improving his record to 4-1 with a 1.38 ERA over his last five starts.
REYES’ POWER SURGE: Jose Reyes hit the first pitch of Wednesday’s game into the right field seats and has homered in back-to-back games.
Dickerson, in a 2-for-28 slide, tied the score 6-all with an RBI single in the fifth and got the decisive hit during the seventh off Mychal Givens (8-2). The Reds had back to back runners thrown out trying to steal in the second inning, and they got runners on the corners with one out for Joey Votto in the third. “He has been swinging the bat well lately”. They all have this whole series.
CLEVELAND – Corey Kluber lost for the first time since July 3 after Marwin Gonzalez connected for a three-run homer off Cleveland’s ace in the second inning.
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Reyes has 19 leadoff homers as a Met and 24 in his career. As the games over the next month, however, will be the ones that matter the most for the Mets team. Manager Terry Collins said he is undecided whether Montero will start again or whether the manager would turn elsewhere if neither Jacob deGrom nor Steven Matz is ready to return the next turn through the rotation.
