“It’s possible”, Weiss said. His pitching on the road is still a concern, but since the Mets are on a homestand, they’ll worry about that when they need to. Tyler Flowers added a solo shot to back Sale (10-7), who didn’t allow more than one baserunner in an inning until Johnny Giavotella drove in two runs with a double in the seventh.
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“That’s a situation that he’s very accustomed to”.
During last night’s SNY broadcast, a parakeet was spotted in the stadium.
Left fielder Yoenis Cespedes hit his first National League homer in the eighth for the first-place Mets (62-52), who have won the first three games of the four-game series. 321 against him. But he is 4-2 with a 1.97 ERA – his best vs. any opponent – in seven career starts against the Pirates. “Unfortunately he’s matched up against a guy that didn’t give up anything”, Weiss said. “It is a collective effort to get where we want to go and it won’t take just one guy”.
That changed in the sixth. Michael Cuddyer singled with one out.
“Everything”, catcher Travis d’Arnaud said when asked what worked for deGrom. The slugger had 18 home runs for Detroit when the Mets acquired him minutes before the July 31 trade deadline. Curtis Granderson knocked a two-run home run into the visitors’ bullpen in the fifth and Juan Lagares hit the Mets’ only pinch hit home run of the season. In the end of August, though, they have a third set against the Mets, in Denver. A July game against the Padres was stopped by rain – a first in San Diego since 2006 – and they waited out a 1-hour, 23-minute delay at the Dodgers.
Colorado might have preferred a rainout against Harvey. He walked none for the third straight outing and struck out four, pitching to contact rather than overpowering the Rockies. Paulsen was doubled off second when LeMahieu hit a soft liner to second base.
Noah Syndergaard had a bumpy start but he settled down to pitch seven innings and allowed three runs.
Murphy then grounded a single past diving shortstop Jose Reyes for a 4-2 lead.
Cuddyer had two hits and a stolen base against the team he played for the past three years.
The Rockies only mounted one serious threat against deGrom. In fact that was the only earned run and hit Rockies stud prospect Sonny Gray allowed in six-innings and just 75 pitches. So again it’s a process that everybody has to go through when you are coming off that surgery. “For the most part it was predetermined”.
“We just want to be intelligent”, Bridich said. Bettis is scheduled to make a rehab start Saturday for Double-A New Britain.
Duda is out of the lineup Tuesday due to back stiffness, Anthony DiComo of MLB.com reports. Tuesday is Harvey day and the Dark Knight has been on fire lately.
“I understand the point of it”, Gray said about the limits.
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Carlos Gonzalez appears to have every pitcher’s number the last two months, but he’s yet to solve Matt Harvey in his career.
