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.
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On Wednesday in Major League Baseball action at Nationals Park, the New York Mets and the Washington Nationals will be closing out their early-week series.
Bryce Harper was the only starter without a hit and is 4 for 30 over his last 10.
He allowed two runs in seven solid innings of a 3-2 victory, making only one mistake on Chris Carter’s two-run homer in the first.
Collins said the big picture regarding Harvey is more important than any particular start at this point.
“We’ve got to think what’s not just best for Matt, but what’s best for us moving forward at the moment”, Collins said. “There’s a lot of things to consider”. “This is the big leagues, so we’re going to certainly go about it that way”. “So like I said, we’ve all been through it. It’s a very lonely place to be”.
PIRATES 12, DIAMONDBACKS 1: Gregory Polanco hit a three-run homer and drove in a career-best five runs as Pittsburgh rolled by visiting Arizona.
“The fastball is still there”.
Edinson Volquez was solid over 6 2/3 innings to earn the win, allowing four runs – two earned – on six hits and three walks while striking out six.
Harvey (3-7) surrendered homers to Ryan Zimmerman, Anthony Rendon and Daniel Murphy during Tuesady’s 84-pitch outing, as his profound struggles continued this season.
BREWERS 2, BRAVES 1: Scooter Gennett’s tie-breaking single in the eighth inning lifted Milwaukee, which spoiled Brian Snitker’s home debut as the Braves’ interim manager.
What’s happening with Harvey really is perplexing, but it might be as simple as him being a bit worn down by the amount of innings he threw past year.
NY slugger Lucas Duda was ruled out for four to six weeks with a stress fracture in his back, but his teammates showed against the Nationals that they have the power to replace him. I guess the pessimist in me still thinks he has a ways to go because that ball is caught in CitiField. “Just took something off his fastball, made it sink a little more, threw it a little hard at times”. Of the 90 pitchers to make at least nine starts this season, he is one of four to fail to reach the seventh inning at least once. There, 425 full-throated New York Mets fans – fresh off a bus ride, emboldened by nature and numbers – gathered for what amounted to, of all things, a therapy session for their club’s erstwhile ace. It was their first hit off of Stephen Strasburg, who retired the first 10 batters of the game.
If you’re going to all gaga and anti-DH when pitchers hit homers, you kinda gotta contend with this too, do you not?
Seattle’s Leonys Martin hit a game-winning, two-run homer in the ninth to complete the Mariners rally past Oakland to a 6-5 win.
Asdrubal Cabrera broke up Strasburg’s perfect-game bid in the fourth with a one-out home run. His batting average is.246….
The six-run inning was a season-best for the NL Central leaders, who snapped their first three-game losing streak of the season. He’s also excellent away from home, going 5-0 with a 2.18 ERA in seven career road starts. “I saw Matt in the video room”, manager Dusty Baker said. “He was kind of smiling”. That’s a good sign. “Usually he’s kind of stoic in his look”.
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The Nationals will be going with right-hander Tanner Roark on Wednesday.
