NY pulled out the win Wednesday, but health is the Mets’ biggest opponent this season.
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The Royals and Mets play again Wednesdy afternoon with Danny Duffy on the mound for the Royals.
Twins 14, Phillies 10: Kurt Suzuki went 4 for 5 with a career-high six RBIs, including a two-run homer, and Minnesota gave Philadelphia its eighth straight defeat. Syndergaard was working on a little bit of extra rest, but he looked sharp until the Royals’ two-run fifth inning. Kansas City dropped to 38-33 on the season after losing both games of a two-game set here at Citi Field. Familia recorded his major-league leading 24th save. “We need to be protected”, Collins said.
After falling to 13-25 on the road, the Royals headed back home – where they boast the best mark in the majors at 25-8. But for Collins, dropping a bad-news bombshell to a NY sports media that craves bad news more than anything else in the world and then immediately scurrying out of the press room seems either vaguely unprofessional or totally reasonable or unspeakably hilarious or some combination of all three. Syndergaard had departed a start against the Kansas City Royals earlier Wednesday after complaining of discomfort in the back of his pitching elbow. It is tough to say which injury would be more devastating, as Syndergaard has been the ace of the Mets’ rotation all year long while Cespedes is the anchor of their lineup.
When the KC Royals fell behind by two runs after solo shots from Asdrubal Cabrera and Yoenis Cespedes, KC fans couldn’t have been too anxious after watching their team pull off four comebacks against the Mets in the 2015 World Series.
Aiding the uneasiness of the current situation, Mets’ center fielder Yoenis Cespedes exited Wednesday’s outing prematurely due to left wrist discomfort while he is also headed to see doctors in Manhattan.
The Mets could choose the conservative route with Syndergaard, who had his right elbow examined seven weeks ago following a May 1 start.
BLUE JAYS 5, DIAMONDBACKS 2: Russell Martin hit a three-run homer and Edwin Encarnacion and Troy Tulowitzki added solo shots as Toronto snapped Arizona’s five-game winning streak.
“I’m certainly concerned about it”, Collins said.
“You’re not going to be ideal every time you step out there. He sure did that”, manager Ned Yost said.
Kansas City Royals Paulo Orlando (16) scores, sliding in past New York Mets catcher Travis d’Arnaud (7) on Brett Eibner’s, fifth-inning, RBI single in a baseball game Tuesday, June 21, 2016, in New York.
Of course, Reynolds’ homer that staked the Mets to the 4-3 lead came against the right-handed Soria after Duffy had departed. Of course, he also earned New York’s lone World Series victory last October and irritated the Royals by firing his first pitch above Alcides Escobar’s head.
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“He’s a special pitcher out there”.
