BOSTON – David Ortiz continued the spectacular first half of his final season driving in four runs helping David Price win his third straight game.
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Matt Harvey, nominal ace of the New York Mets, didn’t stick around to talk to reporters after his most recent disaster of a start, and the local press reacted to the snub in predictable fashion.
Roark almost matched Matz for seven innings, but he fell behind early when Wright turned on a 0-1 fastball and sent a line-drive shot over the Mets’ bullpen door in left.
Matt Harvey, the Mets starter, is now dealing with some of those lows. Rubin’s report featured comments from Mets manager Terry Collins and assistant general manager John Ricco regarding the Harvey situation.
So it’s time for Matt Harvey to show us SOMETHING of an improvement from what has been a awful start to 2016. We’re not going to make any rash judgments tonight. Harvey is now 3-7 with a 6.08 ERA for the season. He went 2.2 innings, allowing nine runs (three unearned), striking out two and walking two.
The decision was announced one day after Harvey was rocked yet again and then skipped out of the clubhouse before speaking with the media.
“The fastball is still there. Now we just have to continue to work on the command of it”.
Strasburg (8-0) gave up two runs and four hits over 6 2/3 innings in defeating Harvey and the Mets for the second time in six days. Ozuna picked up two hits, raising his average this month to.426, while knocking in two runs.
Cleveland’s Rajai Davis hit a two-run homer in the fifth inning to lead the Indians to a 5-1 win at Chicago in night game to split the double-header, after the White Sox won the opener 7-6.
Pittsburgh’s Gregory Polanco hit a three-run homer and drove in a career-best five runs as the Pirates routed Arizona 12-1.
“I thought Tanner threw the ball well enough to win, he really did.” said Murphy, who committed his fifth error. “This guy is too good. The guy tonight he faced was in a similar spot previous year”.
“There were definitely a lot of lows for me a year ago”, he said. “I am definitely trying to learn from that, to try to ride the roller coaster and stay consistent”.
Yet in a 2-0 game, with two outs in the eighth, here came that moment for Steven Matz on Wednesday. “It takes a little time”.
NY should close out this series on a high note.
Strasburg retired the first 10 batters, six by strikeout, before Cabrera homered into the Nationals bullpen beyond the wall in right field.
Other than Murphy and Ryan Zimmerman, who went 2 for 4 with an RBI, the Nationals weren’t swinging the bats well. Bryce Harper, who had received the day off, came up to pinch hit for Michael Taylor as the tying run.
NY manager Terry Collins said it will take a committee approach to replace Duda, and the Mets lineup immediately set about showing how that will work as David Wright hit a three-run homer during a five-run third inning, and Yoenis Cespedes and Neil Walker padded the lead with back-to-back homers in the fifth. Soon, Matz officially improved to 11-1 in his 14 regular-season starts in the major leagues. Blohm entered Tuesday night’s Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association AConference championship game against Gilman with a 9-0 record and a 0.83 ERA in 11 appearances. He has started 16 of 19 games for Washington since returning from a right oblique strain in early May.
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“We looked at video, ” Roark said. “He was kind of smiling”. He has never lost a game on the road (5-0) or faced the Nationals. The 27-year-old hurler is now 8-0 with a 2.79 ERA this year.
