The Mets hold a 6-game lead over Washington in NL East with each club having 14 games to play – including a head-to-head series at Citi Field on the final three days of the regular season.
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The Mets were leading the New York Yankees 1-0 after five innings Sunday night, and Harvey had given up just one hit. And the 5-0 score is the largest shutout win by any major-league team in the last 100 years that used seven pitchers in the game. But their two wins combined with a pair of Toronto losses to Boston (go Red Sox!) have cut the Jays’ lead to two and a half games. He has been dominant over the Yankees in his career, allowing three runs in 16 innings across two starts.
The Yankees grabbed the rubber-match of the Subway Series Part 2 this weekend, and took the overall season series 4-2 with a decisive 11-2 drubbing of the slumping Mets on Sunday night. The Mets refute that notion, insisting that no hard cap exists and that they plan to push Harvey past that threshold in the playoffs.
The New York Mets have to reconvene.
Stephen Strasburg was 2-0 in two starts and allowed one earned run while striking out 24 in 15 innings this week.
“Doing what we are doing now with Jake, I like the status of the pitching staff. I think the rest is going to help Jake, ” Collins said. On Friday, Syndergaard brought his teammates a box of black T-shirts with “Yo Knows Beisbol” in yellow, orange and blue, which the pitcher got from the website barstoolsports.com.
“The longer out you go, the less chance you have of breaking down”, John said in a phone interview this week. “It’s not tentative on the basis of, gee, he’s only got a number of innings left”. Regardless of the recent innings controversy, Matt Harvey is a lock to be in the top two. However, things can change; people can get hurt, or their effectiveness can decrease.
“For me, the only way to stay consistent is get him out there”, Collins said.
Collins has some validity to his statement.
The Mets have to tight-rope from here on out – play Harvey enough to give them a shot at a win, while monitoring how many innings and pitches he can throw, wary that they could be ignoring the doctor’s orders.
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Felix Hernandez became the AL’s first 18-game victor and Robinson Cano drove in four runs in the Mariners’ victory. The Mets now lead the Nationals by 6.5 games in the National League East, and they would obviously like to have the division wrapped up by the time that series begins. The Yankees, who lead the wild-card standings, moved within 2 1/2 games of the first-place Blue Jays heading into their three-game set beginning Monday night. Tonight I wanted to be out there more than anything. Last Monday, he allowed no runs on three hits in 6 2/3 innings in a no-decision that the Yankees won late. Manager Terry Collins has stated publicly that he doesn’t see Matz or Syndergaard pitching out of the bullpen come October. The only other active pitchers with an ERA that low and that many strikeouts against the Yankees are Chris Sale and Dallas Keuchel. The biggest moment of the game came when Puerto Rican outfielder Carlos Beltrán hit a three run homer in the very first inning, and the Yankees never looked back.
