Wilmer Flores went 6-for-6 and had two of New York’s five home runs, and the Mets capped a four-game sweep of the Cubs by battering Jon Lester in a 14-3 win Sunday.
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In case you missed it…… They allowed eight homers to a Mets lineup that ranked last among the 30 Major League Baseball clubs with 86 runs scored in June.
Rivera knocked in three runs, and every Mets starter had a hit by the sixth – including Syndergaard. Flores’ career day included two home runs and four RBI.
When did the New York Mets score?
James Loney’s single drove home a run in the eighth. Flores opened June as the starter, replacing the injured David Wright, quietly hit.289 with two homers and 12 RBI last month.
Russell Martin had five RBIs, while Happ (11-3) allowed five hits and one run to win his fifth straight start and give the Blue Jays a split in the four-game series. We didn’t play well enough. Unbelievable feeling. Six hits?
Don’t get into panic mode, but I think we can all officially be concerned about Jake Arrieta. But it happened. I put good swings on the ball.
But here’s why we love when position players get their shot to pitch. “Once you’re out there and you keep playing, get more at-bats, you’ll feel more comfortable”. “I think there’s a great mood in the clubhouse”.
The Mets offense absolutely exploded, especially for Wilmer Flores today.
“Coming into these four games, I think the guys knew that they had a huge challenge ahead of them”, manager Terry Collins said.
He hopes for more chances to get lucky now, because he wants to keep that job at third base. They got us a year ago. I believed that this could be it, we would win again.
So, for one attractive moment, Montero and deGrom got to pretend they were living in the alternative universe where they’d each chosen the opposite career path. “This is (when) we caught fire past year and we need to do it again”.
The Giants (52-32) are 18-4 against division opponents since being swept in a four-game homer series by Arizona on May 18-21.
“We’re confident. We’re fine”.
“It’s awful”, said catcher Miguel Montero, who pitched the final 11/3 innings of a 14-3 pasting that capped the Mets’ first four-game sweep of the Cubs in the regular season since June 17-20, 1985. Mets closer Jeurys Familia worked a 1-2-3 ninth for his 28th save of the season.
New York, which lost all seven meetings with the Cubs in the 2015 regular season before sweeping Chicago in four games during the playoffs, dropped four in a row to finish off a 2-5 road trip before returning home on Thursday to face the Cubs.
The Mets (44-37) turned things around quickly after getting swept in Washington with a struggling offense. They were 41-40 after 81 games previous year.
Left-hander Francisco Liriano gave up three runs over five innings and ended his five-game losing streak as the Pittsburgh Pirates rallied for the third straight game to defeat the Oakland Athletics 6-3 and complete a series sweep. It was the most hits in any game for NY since they totaled 23 on April 29, 2000 at Colorado.
PHILADELPHIA – Cameron Rupp hit a three-run homer, Vince Velasquez threw six effective innings and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Kansas City Royals.
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Jose Reyes continued his stint in the minor leagues with Double-A Binghamton on Sunday, going 1-for-2 with two walks and his first stolen base, and it remains uncertain when he will join the Mets. That answered a run the Cubs scored in the top of the first against Syndergaard. He’s 7-1 with a 2.15 ERA in his last 11 outings.
