Carlos Torres, the Mets reliever who continued the bullpen’s recent struggles allowing a walk-off home run against Baltimore Wednesday night, said location wasn’t a problem on Henry Urrutia’s first career home run. “We called for a fastball up. I threw the fastball up. These guys, unfortunately, they’ve been seeing [Noah] Syndergaard and [Jacob] deGrom, so [...]
Technically speaking, it is incorrect to refer to a September call-up as “cup of coffee.” This old baseball term was historically used in reference to a short stretch spent in the majors to fill in for an injured player, not for a player filling out a roster spot for the last month of the season, [...]