The Mets broke out the long ball and combined with the pitching of Jacob deGrom earned an 8-5 win over the Yankees Monday night and a split of the Subway Series.
The Mets jumped on top early, as Amed Rosario hit the first leadoff homer of his career. It was one of five homers for the Mets in the game, as Jose Bautista, Todd Frazier, Brandon Nimmo and Michael Conforto all left the yard. It was the most homers hit by the Mets in a game this season.
It was the second straight start that the Mets’ offense supported deGrom and not coincidentally, it was his first consecutive wins since April. The 12 Ks show how dominating deGrom was. And while he gave up three runs, two of them wouldn’t have scored if Jeff McNeil could have turned a double play. And the third one scored on a bloop hit.
Three relievers finished up after deGrom went 6.2 innings. Jerry Blevins came on to get the final out of the seventh, Seth Lugo gave up two runs in the eighth thanks to a towering homer on a hanging curve and Robert Gsellman had a 1-2-3 ninth for his seventh save of the year. Gsellman has a 2.12 ERA in his last 15 games and certainly seems to have righted himself after a brutal stretch in late June.
The Mets have won five of their last seven games and are 18-18 since July 1 after going 5-21 in the month of June.
I woke up this morning at 5am and caught the last two innings. It felt like winning the Super Bowl in front of the whole country, and the Yankees look in trouble. Too much talent to be getting killed with your ace on the mound by the Mets’ weak lineup. One thing to lose 3-2 and be shut down. Quite another to give up eight runs to a lineup where three players were released earlier this year, three more are backups, and the last three are young starters trying to find their way.
I feel foolish saying this in the first point of the comments, but I may not have access to the internet later, so I must do so now: Wonder what Cashman is thinking, especially as we all heard Keith Olberman talking about trading one of his stud prospects because he wanted to win. Granted it was fantasy baseball, but winning is winning, and you play to win one year at a time if you feel you have what it takes.
P.S.: I feel sorry for whoever had to listen to those three guys for nine innings. It sounded like one big tryout for The Improv.
I don’t like the ESPN Style of broad casting either. My gut feeling is that the Mets controlled the game. This is 1 happy Met fan tonight.
The Mets need to keep sending this DeGrom guy out there every five days to see what they have for 2019.
I had to turn the sound down as well, that was some brutal coverage and I am not picky with the announcers.
Mr. McNeil needs to watch some film of second basemen of yore turning two. Despite the new rules, you need to use that base for some protection or you can still get injured seriously.
The announcers were awful. They were not serious and were talking about nonsense while the game was going on. On several pitches, they ignored the game completely. It’s like they were sitting at a bar and were just joking around.
Olbermann needs to disappear for another 25 years. I think he is certifiably insane
Frazier’s throw took him into the runner.
Agreed.
Frazier’s throw was not a good one.
But a better second baseman realizes that he has plenty of time on that play and keeps moving. He takes two steps after he catches the ball and there’s no way the runner can make contact with him and he still gets the runner at first easy.
agreed
Finally, a fun and satisfying Met game to watch.
The announcers were terrible. No focus in the game. Focus on mom getting hit by a ball, olberman trading Acuna from his fantasy team and more junk. Plus mocking of trying to pick the Mets greatest players compared to the Yankees. Shameful.
Olberman/The Broadcast:
He does offer a unique perspective, as He’s a baseball Lifer-Junkie. His personality is much more “attractive” in sports versus Politics. He could be an interesting Voice, but His level of self-absorption is incredibly overwhelming to the game itself.
He began “reminding” everyone that there was a baseball game being played, in the 9th inning—- someone needed to remind him of that in the 5th inning.
I don’t know about you guys but I can’t stand the strikezone box being constantly on screen.I know what the strikezone is.
My opinion is that it doesn’t need to be on during live action. But if they’re going to show a replay of the pitch, then it absolutely needs to be on.
Sure,that is fine.
Not only was the box irksome but it seemed a little to low. Anything over the belt according to the box was a ball. Additionally the umpire’s strike zone seemed in line with the box?