He struck out a season-high 11 batters but was suffered the loss after allowing two earned runs on four hits.Despite spending 175 of the season’s 182 days atop the NL East, building a 10.5-game lead by the end of May, and winning 101 games, the New York Mets lost out in the division race to a red-hot Atlanta Braves team that has played at a. In his first outing in San Diego on June 8, he had one of his worst starts of the season, allowing seven earned runs on eight hits and two walks with six strikeouts across 3⅓ innings.īassitt rebounded at Citi Field but was dealt a tough defeat in a 2-1 result.
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DeGrom, who missed the first four months of the season with a stress reaction in his right scapula, has not faced the Padres this season.īassitt made starts in each of the two series against the Padres, with conflicting results. He was dealt a hard-luck loss after allowing two earned runs across six innings with eight strikeouts. Scherzer has faced the Padres once this season. I think you’ve got to keep that in mind, or I do, because there’s a not a blueprint for three-game series much." "There’s not a lot of experience with three-game sets. "You spend a lot of time looking at five-game series or seven-game series and seeing what people were able to do or not to do where if they had to do it over again, they might’ve done something differently," Showalter said. And if the Mets win the opening game, they could then decide to go with their best shot with deGrom or take a gamble with Chris Bassitt to save deGrom for a potential Game 1 in the National League Division Series against the Dodgers. If the playoff-proven Max Scherzer takes the ball, that would give Jacob deGrom a little extra time for his blister to heal on his throwing hand. Then you’ve kind of got to go with a guy." Mets' projected Wild Card rotationĪnalysis: A lot of the way that Showalter constructs his starting rotation might be determined by what the Mets do in the opening game against the Padres on Friday. Every once in a while you come up and there’s nothing there to grab. "You’ve got the projections, you’ve got the probabilities, you’ve got the historical matchups. "You don’t become a prisoner to one thing," Buck Showalter said. The Mets are also likely to keep the speedy Terrance Gore in place, along with Tyler Naquin as an outfield reserve and Mark Vientos as another corner infield.
While Darin Ruf has been taking swings to attempt a return from a neck strain, Alvarez's ceiling and power could be a boon for his chances to make the roster. With a likely matchup with Yu Darvish on deck for the opening game, this is the Mets' best lineup for facing a righty.įrancisco Alvarez did himself a huge favor on Wednesday night when he homered and doubled in the second half of the team's doubleheader. But he can’t swing the bat, can’t throw the ball, it’s kind of hard." "He’s one of our toughest guys, so when you know he can’t – he would fight through about anything. "I was talking yesterday, it’s kind of like one day you’re going to wake up and some of the pain is not going to be there," Buck Showalter said. Marte has still been unable to grip a baseball and his attempts to swing a bat did not yield positive results.
2 spot, but that is looking less and less likely. on Sunday.įor Subscribers: Mets can still get to World Series, but here's what we must see from each player Mets' projected opening Wild Card lineupĪnalysis: The Mets had been holding out hope that Starling Marte would be able to return from a fractured middle finger in time to find his usual spot in the No.
*- If the Rays-Guardians series is over before Sunday, the Mets and Padres third game would move to 4 p.m. Game 3 (if necessary): Padres at Mets, 7:37 p.m. Here's when Mets fans should expect to flock to Citi Field for the first playoff home games since 2015: Mets vs. The Padres won the season series between the two teams, taking four out of six matchups. The Mets grabbed their first 100-win season in 34 years on On Wednesday, Major League Baseball announced the start times for the Mets' series against the San Diego Padres, which begins Friday night. The Mets will be in primetime for the duration of this weekend's NL Wild Card series. Watch Video: Mets columnist Andrew Tredinnick after Mets swept by Braves
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