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Muckenhirn allowed one run in two innings, and Raley walked three in a scoreless inning. LHP Zach Muckenhirn was added as the 27th man for the second game, and LHP Brooks Raley was activated from the injured list. Santana pitched a one-hit eighth, then was designated for assignment after the game. RHP Seth Elledge was designated for assignment. Mets: LHP Joey Lucchesi, who started Saturday, was optioned to Triple-A Syracuse and New York selected the contract of RHP Dennis Santana before the first game. Mets RHP Carlos Carrasco (right elbow inflammation) pitched four shutout innings of two-hit ball for Double-A Binghamton in a rehab outing against Hartford. At the end of the day, you can’t do that.” "Not convicted totally on the pitch that I was throwing. “I just made a couple of pitches that looking back on, in the moment, that I wish that I would’ve gone with something different," Irvin said. Jake Irvin (1-1) took his first major league loss, permitting a career-high six runs in 4 2/3 innings. "I think that’s kind of the first step is slowing the game down and making sure you’re staying in the strike zone and seeing the ball long.”

“I saw the ball really well today," Canha said. Marte blooped a two-run single to center. Canha had an RBI double and a run-scoring single in the inning. The other was for Pittsburgh against Milwaukee last June 30.ĭown 1-0 in the nightcap, the Mets sent 12 batters to the plate and got six hits in the fifth to break the game open. Pérez went 4 for 4 in his second career four-hit game. Biggest thing is probably swinging at strikes.” “Just keeping it simple, hitting my pitch, not getting myself out. “I’ve been in the gym,” Abrams said of his recent power surge. Abrams went 4 for 8 in the two games with a double, a homer and four RBIs. He hit his first career grand slam April 27 at New York. Two of Abrams’ three homers this season have come against the Mets.
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“I thought if it did it was high enough to where if it stayed in we’d have a chance to get under it.”įinnegan notched his eighth save in 10 chances.Ĭall also made a nice running catch for the final out of the seventh on Lindor’s deep drive off Hunter Harvey (2-0), who pitched 1 2/3 hitless innings. “I was hoping it would stay in the ballpark,” Finnegan said. In the completion of Saturday’s game, suspended in the third inning after a rain delay that lasted 3 hours, 56 minutes, Washington center fielder Alex Call made a pair of outstanding defensive plays in the ninth to preserve a 3-2 win.ĬJ Abrams broke a 2-all tie in the seventh with a home run off Dominic Leone (0-1), who lost in his first decision with the Mets.Ĭall perfectly played the carom off the wall on Michael Pérez’s two-out drive in the ninth off Kyle Finnegan, holding Pérez to a single.īrandon Nimmo followed with a single and 2022 big league batting champion Jeff McNeil hit a long fly that Call tracked down just in front of the wall for the final out. Scherzer is 3-0 with a 2.78 ERA in his past four starts against Washington, and his 40 wins at Nationals Park are third all-time behind Stephen Strasburg (54) and Gio Gonzalez (41). "Maybe the neck spasms were a blessing in disguise to finally get that fully rested, fully healed." “I’ve been battling that lat, back injury, scapula, kind of all that," Scherzer said. The three-time Cy Young Award winner was scratched from his scheduled start last Tuesday in Cincinnati due to neck spasms. He threw 83 pitches, 50 for strikes, and lowered his ERA to 4.88. The 38-year-old Scherzer (3-2) allowed one run and two hits against his former team, striking out six and walking two. We put a lot of good things together there. "Sometimes it’s just hard to get in the flow of it at this level where the pitchers and other teams are the best players in the world. “You pull so hard for them because I see all the things they do and how much they want it," Mets manager Buck Showalter said. I felt like our good ABs finally turned into something and we cashed them in.”Īfter losing 3-2 hours earlier in the completion of a game suspended Saturday because of rain, the $355 million Mets (20-21) improved to 6-14 in their last 20. "We know if we can give Max some runs, (it) gives us a good chance. “It’s just nice to get some runs and get Max some run support," Canha said. Slumping outfielders Starling Marte and Mark Canha both had two hits and two RBIs during New York's biggest inning this season. WASHINGTON (AP) - Max Scherzer pitched five steady innings in his return from neck spasms and the New York Mets finally broke loose for eight runs in the fifth to beat the Washington Nationals 8-2 on Sunday.
