After an embarrassing 9-0 loss at Citi Field gave the Arizona Diamondbacks a three-game sweep, Collins called out his team to the media in a near four-minute rant. Both runners stole a base during an at-bat in which Jean Segura struck out before Bourn tripled to deep right-center field. The Mets are staring at defeats in four of five following Wednesday’ defeat. So obviously our starting pitching is the key, as we saw.
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Trumbo belted his major-league leading 32nd home run of the season and first grand slam as an Oriole in the fifth inning, extending Baltimore’s lead to 7-0. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Mets gave up 12 steals to the Chicago Cubs during a series in April 1990.
Mets manager Terry Collins appeared to have seen enough Thursday, when his post-game press conference consisted of a 3 1/2-minute monologue in which his voice was raised nearly the entire time. As a Rule 5 draftee, Hernandez – who had not played above Class A in five seasons in the Tampa Bay chain – had to spend the entire 2015 season on the major league roster. You come you owe a responsible to the fans, our fan base and the organization, to yourself the respect for this game to grind it out. “That’s where it’s got to start”.
After Collins stormed off the podium, the Mets’ locker room remained closed for a team meeting until 3:33 PM – 29 minutes after the final out was recorded. Now we’re going to get our [butts] beat again. “He can speak his mind and get out what he wants to get out”. For him to help us, he’s got to be able to switch hit. Ray was flawless until Ty Kelly’s fourth-inning single. Brito’s opposite-field double to left, Gosewisch’s opposite-field triple to right and Shipley’s RBI single – all over or through a drawn-in infield – built a 3-0 lead. Shipley (2-1) allowed three hits and one walk while striking out seven. The Mets will try to avoid a three-game sweep against a last-place club when they host the Arizona Diamondbacks in the finale of a three-game series on Thursday.New York fell to 10-15 since the All-Star break with Wednesday’s 3-2 setback in 12 innings and dropped 2 1/2 games behind the division-rival Miami Marlins and the St. Louis Cardinals in the race for the second National League wild card.
Shipley (2-1) allowed three hits and one walk while striking out seven. “It’s kind of like it’s been one step forward and two steps back for us”, Mets second baseman Neil Walker said. “I was waiting for a pitch to do hard contact and I hit a bomb”. “So that was a lot of run to see”. But the wins need to start coming or Collins could be.
Braden Shipley threw seven shutout innings in his best start as a major leaguer and added an RBI single and a stolen base in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 9-0 win over the New York Mets on Thursday afternoon.
“We’re back fresh, starting tomorrow”, Collins said.
“I don’t care who is not here”. Because in (Triple-A) Las Vegas, there’s a whole clubhouse filled with guys who want to be in this room. It starts with me, and as I just have said so many times, I don’t care who’s not here. “I think as long as he’s healthy we’ll get him back soon”. Diamondbacks LF Yasmany Tomas (neck) was scratched from Tuesday’s lineup and is day-to-day.2. After the game, Hale announced that OF David Peralta would have season-ending surgery on Thursday morning to stabilize the tendon in his left wrist. After struggling in his debut, he’s thrown back-to-back quality starts, allowing two runs over his last 12 innings.
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The Mets are in a stretch of the schedule where they should be making hay by beating up on bad teams, but instead they’re sliding.
