Bartolo Colon is having a big season at the plate.
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Castillo tied a career high with four hits, drove in two runs, and had two of the Diamondbacks’ seven doubles in a 10-6 victory over the New York Mets on Monday at Chase Field. The Snakes sit second to last in the National League only besting the lowly Atlanta Braves but they could be in a decent position here at home with Ray on the mound, who as mentioned has a knack for striking batters out with high frequency and faces a Mets side that has had trouble at the plate all season long. Cross it off the bucket list! Can’t say he didn’t earn it.
Not only that, the strikeout-to-walk aspect of Colon’s line is fun. He takes over the all-time lead from Pat Rapp. “I’ll pretty much have my phone on me everywhere but second base”, Walker said before the game. It couldn’t possibly happen.
Neil Walker had three hits, including a ninth-inning homer, Jose Reyes had two hits and two RBIs, and Travis d’Arnaud added three hits for the Mets, who have lost five of seven. The Mets had seven baserunners over the first three innings, but only one managed to score.
Michael Bourn, Jake Lamb and Castillo had RBI singles in the first, all on grounders up the middle.
“They have a good offensive team, and you have to pitch against them”, Collins said. “When you play behind Bartolo, you can’t have many mistakes because they are going to put the ball in play against you”. The Mets had a lot of chances to score runs, but they fell short time and time again. NY loaded the bases with no outs against lefty Steve Hathaway.
Enrique Burgos, with a fastball hitting 97 miles per hour, struck out the side for Arizona in the eighth.
Castillo was scheduled to miss just three games early last week on paternity leave, but he also missed the weekend series in Boston when there were some now-resolved complications with the delivery. He said in a statement released by the team that, “If things go OK, I hope to be with the team in San Francisco”.
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Diamondbacks: OF A.J. Pollack (wrist surgery) has appeared in five rehab games for Class A Visalia.
