All good things must come to an end.
The Mets got six innings from their starter but for the first time this season when it happened, the team didn’t win, as former Met Chris Bassitt dominated in a 3-0 win.
After a 90-minute rain delay, Justin Verlander gave up a homer on the second pitch of the game. But Verlander settled in and did not allow another run, getting a strikeout with the bases loaded to the final batter he faced in the sixth inning.
The score remained 1-0 until the ninth inning, when Jeff Brigham allowed a two-run homer.
The Mets’ best chance to score happened in the third inning, when they had runners on the corners with no outs and the top of the lineup coming up. But Bassitt got two infield popups and a strikeout to end the threat.
Bassitt finished with 7.2 scoreless innings with 0 BB and 8 Ks. Verlander had 8 Ks in 6 IP and threw 117 pitches, the most by a Mets pitcher this year.
Gut reaction: the wrong team hit the two-run home run in the 9th.
It was a superb pitching duel between Bassett and Verlander.
The difference between last night and the previous afternoon, was that the four hits for the Mets produced no runs instead of four.
Figured Bassitt would be trouble as I liked him last year and he was a battler for the most part and threw many different variations of pitches. It’s no surprise that he calls his pitches with the pitch com on his belt. Surprised more pitchers don’t do it that way, especially with the constraints of the pitch clock. No table setters on for the Mets yesterday and the Baby Mets took an o-fer. Will Vientos get another start or are we back to Buck’s favorite .215 hitter? Hoping the better Megill shows up today after the Mets Hall of Fame Inductions. Braves lost woohoo.
Forget for a moment the outdated way of looking at the world thru AVG and just focus on ragging on someone for batting .215 and then advocating for a guy batting .172 like Vientos.
The good news is that it appears that our starters are on track except for Megill. Hope Quintana pitches great when he returns.
The Mets are tied for the third wild card and are only 3.5 games back of the Braves who lost, so they are right in the thick of it.