“We took somebody out of the game, we had a legit piece to go in there and fill-in”. No similar acquisition is expected this time. I swallow it pretty good. “Hopefully I can continue to be that way in the second half, and I believe I’m going to get better”, Reyes said.
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“I don’t have any answer”, he said.
According to oddsmakers from online sports book BetDSI, the Mets are -133 money line favorites to beat the Nationals this afternoon at home, while the Nationals have +123 odds to pull off the upset. The record for the most RBIs in a single season against the Mets is owned by Hank Aaron with 28 in 1962.
Steven Matz overcame a shaky start to allow three runs over seven innings.
If there’s any consolation for Collins, he’ll soon have Murphy back on his side, albeit for just a day – Collins is guiding the NL team in the All-Star Game on Tuesday night in San Diego, and Murphy is on the squad.
As gaudy as his numbers are, Murphy said he’d rather talk about his team’s place in the standings than his spot in Baker’s pantheon.
Murphy connected in the first inning for his 17th homer this year.
NEW YORK (AP) _ Daniel Murphy is torching major league pitching and no one is burned more than his former New York Mets teammates.
The New York Mets came into the 2016 season with the highest aspirations after reaching the World Series past year.
The Mets obviously underestimated the long-term ramifications of those adjustments.
~ Related: Mets Fans Put Murph’s Jersey In Freezer To Stop His Hot Hitting ~ . And I’m sticking with it.’ And he’s probably even refined it a little bit more – the fact that he’s on the plate, the fact that he’s pulling a little bit more.
“We always knew he had some power”. But he was one of those kind of guys that would be happy to take a hit to left field, which he still will in certain situations. Can the Mets get healthy and work the trade deadline as masterfully as they did in 2015?
Today’s Player of the Game Award goes to Nationals’ second baseman Daniel Murphy, whose two run homer in the first inning gave the Nats a lead they would never relinquish.
Reyes has eight career multi-homer games, and all have come with the Mets. And then, against the Royals, Murphy’s bat went ice cold, and he instead recorded two costly errors en route to a Kansas City championship. That was the second-to-last game of Reyes’ original tenure with the Mets. He departed that winter for a six-year, $106 million contract with the Miami Marlins.
“[It’s] sort of a surprise when I hit a homer”, Reyes said. Not since Ryan Howard in 2006 has a player hit more RBIs in a single season against the Mets – and it’s only the All-Star Break!
“I feel like I’m starting to get in a groove. 500 [54-36]. We’re playing really good baseball right now”. “It’s part of baseball”. Their biggest concern, aside from losing captain David Wright for the rest of the season and no timetable for either the return of Cespedes or Lucas Duda, who last played on May 21, is the inability to produce with runners in scoring position.
LOHSE BACK IN MAJORS WITH RANGERS: Texas promoted well-traveled pitcher Kyle Lohse from Triple-A and gave him a start right away against the Twins in a game that was 5-3 in favor of Minnesota in the fourth inning. The pitching has carried the Mets for the past two years, but it appears that the Mets defenses are slowly falling and they will need to find a way to scratch across wins in the meantime as they now have something to rally around going into the crucial second half of the season.
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Up next: The Nationals take most of the week off for the All-Star break with a long homestand on the other end set to begin Friday with the Pittsburgh Pirates in town.
