New York Mets starter Jonathon Niese pitches against the Atlanta Braves in the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, September 21, 2015, in New York.
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The Mets enter the week six games ahead of second-place Washington with 13 games to play and would like to take care of clinching the division against the likes of Atlanta, Cincinnati and Philadelphia before closing the regular season against the Nationals. They are 18-49 since then, and including 4-28 on the road.
“I don’t think 2007 or 2008 means a lot to the players”, Sandy Alderson said. “I’m not going to say wins and losses don’t matter because at the end of the day, a loss is a loss. That’s all that matters”. Another bad National League East team. The offensively anemic Braves swept three from the Phillies at home over the weekend, all by 2-1 scores.
With talks of innings limits and skipping starts taking over the conversation, the Mets have finally revealed their plan for the week.
So here came the Braves into Citi Field to serve their objective . “They wiggled out of it. We didn’t score runs. But against this team you’ve got to score runs”.
“Offensively we had some opportunities”, Swisher said.
Any other squad with this sort of bring, this tardy among the spell, we’d be referring to items like Game one- newbies and to discover the oppose timetable.
Mets: 3B David Wright received a scheduled night off. Murphy shifted to third base, and Kelly Johnson started at second…. He has received by far the worst run support in the majors.
The drought surpassed the Atlanta record of 22 consecutive winless starts that Miller briefly shared with Carl Morton, whose drought spanned parts of two seasons (1975-1976).
On Monday, the Mets finally revealed their rotation plans for the week that included both deGrom and Harvey, along with a spot start for Logan Verrett. But lately his performance had slipped, and he was 0-6 with a 5.56 ERA and.304 opponents’ average in his past six starts before Monday.
Daniel Murphy lined a two-run double, Yoenis Cespedes had three hits and the Mets handed hard-luck Shelby Miller (5-16) his 15th straight defeat.
Slump? What slump? He went 3-for-4 with a double that almost broke the left field wall. Six scoreless innings. Only 88 pitches.
Niese got rolling in the middle innings after earlier trouble.
Miller said, “After the first couple of innings I felt like I did a better job of getting hitters out quicker, there’s no doubt about that. It kind of rights the ship a little bit”. “We play the game to win”.
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Michael Conforto’s solo homer in the second extended the Mets’ lead to 2-0. He allowed just one of the final seven batters he faced to reach, and had an economic outing. In the third, the Braves loaded the bases with two outs before Niese retired Freddie Freeman.
