The Mets had Carlos Carrasco fly back from the West Coast early so he would be ready for Tuesday night’s start. Well, sounded good in theory but the reality was not pretty. Carrasco laid an egg, the bullpen let up additional runs and the Mets found themselves on the wrong end of a 6-4 game.

There’s a battle going on for who’s going to make the playoff roster and Carrasco and Trevor Williams both did little to help their chances. And only an extremely generous strike call from the ump kept Tylor Megill from joining that list, too.

It wasn’t the finest day for the men in blue. The home plate ump had a very wide strike zone that had both teams unhappy. And in the eighth inning, umps called three balks on the Marlins pitcher, giving the Mets a run.

They could have called a balk on every pitch the guy made, as he never came to a stop, with his glove constantly moving. The announcers suggested that it was a ticky-tack call, as he wasn’t trying to deceive anyone. But the rule says you’ve got to come to a stop. Don’t like it? Try coming to a stop then.

Pete Alonso hit a 3-run homer, his 40th of the season, to account for all of the non-balk Mets’ runs.

14 comments on “Gut Reaction: Marlins 6, Mets 4 (9/27/22)

  • TexasGusCC

    The ironic thing about the balks is Gary Cohen telling us that Bleier has never been called for a balk ever before. So, how can a guy that doesn’t come to a complete stop never have a balk called against him?

    Well, I go back to getting swept by the Cubs at home two weeks ago as unforgivable. Losing to the Marlins will happen; losing to the A’s will happen; getting swept by the Cubs at home must n e v e r happen! Ever! I thought good teams will win the games they must win? So, now they are tied with the Braves with seven games left for both. Win tomorrow and go to Atlanta and kick their ass, and all sins are forgotten.

  • TexasGusCC

    Following this game, Tim Britton’s article in The Athletic is simply a must read and full of information offering the reality of the Mets predicament of picking between Walker and Carrasco in the postseason and the fallout after this game. Just this little snippet for now: “Carrasco was miffed that what he considered his best changeup of the season couldn’t tempt more swings out of Miami’s hitters. “It was a really good changeup. They just took it,” he said.”

    Maybe it wasn’t that good then Carlos, or were you telegraphing it?

  • T.J.

    Carrasco laid an egg but so did the offense, again.

  • Metsense

    Good reaction : The offense didn’t really fail. They scored 4 runs. Most times that would be enough to win against the Marlins. Carrasco failed and Williams failed also. Peterson and Megill didn’t look too sharp either but they weren’t scored upon. There wasn’t a sustained offense either. The bottom line, the Braves took of business against the Nats, the Mets did not. The Mets fate is in their hands. LGM

  • ChrisF

    The Jeckyll and Hyde Mets picked a crappy time to display this ugly trait in their make up. Win big or lose big. Last night was nowhere near as close as it looked. Pete did his level best for the 3 and all felt good, but as we have become accustomed to, the Mets offense has a penchant for making scrub pitchers look like Cy Young winners. The 4th run, on 3 consecutive balks (which must be a first in baseball history??) cannot be classified as offense even if founded on a seeing eyed single. One thing thats been coming out is that Cohens Mets have shaken off the “LOL Mets” moniker, yet here we are on 28 Sept with 97 wins and looking at a wild card game. Only in Queens (or I guess in SF too!).

    In arguably the easiest month of games all season, in a month when the Mets historically step up big, this has been a genuine disappointment. Cubs, Nats, As, Marlins, and as Gus said a sweep by the Cubs is inexcusable. Now the Mets are on the ropes with a huge series in the House of Horrors where the track record aint that great.

    This team had control of their destiny, set to align pitching for the playoffs. It now seems likely this will be disrupted as they cede control of the division to the much hated Braves. If you cant stand tall against the weakest teams when it is necessary, it doesnt bode well for playing the top teams.

    SP3 is a total disaster. Its so bad that the team really doesnt even have a even a half decent SP3. Pitching Pitching Pitching. Someone did not get that message at the trade deadline.

    • BoomBoom

      Bassitt is SP3. The Mets still control their own destiny.

      • ChrisF

        Oh yeah, good catch. My bad.

  • NYM6986

    It is all still in our hands to win the division but do we have the horses? Vogelbach, Escobar and Naquin all had an o-for when we needed some hits. We did not play well in the field and clearly Cookie was not dominating. We are better than 4 runs a game but could only capitalize with Pete and all those balks. We are having an historic season but not one where we were dominant like ‘86 where we simply beat up on everyone until of course the playoffs where we won by the skin of our teeth. Still optimistic that we can succeed in the playoffs regardless of the place we finish but the division winner has a great advantage. Clearly looking ahead there is work to do in the off season which will include getting a top of the rotation starter who will be our #4, and a dominant DH instead of a group of one sided hitters who need to be lifted when a pitching change happens. Also hoping uncle Steve continues to build our farm system so that at some point we could bring up to AA players like the Braves did who seamlessly fit into their starting lineup and are both heading over 300. The best we could do was bring up Baty and Vientos, both of them were not really ready to hit major league pitching. Okay enough of this rambling negativity. We need to hook the Fish tonight and go on a run. Also hoping weather forces the relocation of the Braves series to take their fans out of it. LGM

    • ChrisF

      Id say Vogelbach’s AB in the 9th has to be the worst for the entire team all season long. With 2 runs down and desperately in need of a runner he dodges a ball that is going to hit him and put him on base, which could bring in Gore as a disrupter – and then Ks as if he a statue. All in all, that was such a bad example of situational awareness and team need that you need to wonder just what the hell he was thinking.

      • TexasGusCC

        ^
        +1

      • BoomBoom

        absolutely this. terrible at bat. followed by Canha who has been caught looking at strike 3 a whole bunch lately.

  • BobP

    It’s a shame that the Braves can bring up a pitcher from AAA so that they can set up their rotation against the Mets and take care of business against an inferior team, while the Mets pitching is already set up well and they have an established vet going against an inferior team and he shits the bed.

    • ChrisF

      That aint the best news available in the last week of September.

      • BobP

        Definitely not.

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