Today’s game was a rarity when nearly everything went right for the Mets. Good pitching and strong offense.
Biggest story was definitely the triumphant return of David Peterson. After struggling mightily early on this season, Peterson was sent to the minor leagues. He was brought back this week and made his first start since being demoted.
The Mets could not have asked any more from what Peterson showed today. He went six shutout innings against the Brewers, throwing a career high 110 pitches.He induced two double plays, to get out of jams in the first and third inning, and cruised from then on. This was a huge boost not only for this Mets team, but for their depleted starting rotation, which has struggled for most of the year. Peterson is expected to make another start after today’s gem.
Offensively, the Mets showed their power, hitting 4 home runs, to drive in 6 of their 7 runs. Brandon Nimmo made the biggest bat noise, with 2 home runs. Francisco Lindor also homered and that was his 200th career home run. Daniel Vogelbach also homered later on, to give the Mets some insurance runs.
Losers of 16 of their last 21 games prior to today, this game was the kind of game that the Mets were expected to play for most of this season.
Granted this is only one win, but the Mets hope to build on that tomorrow. Kodai Senga will make the start for the Mets, pitching on regular rest for only the second time this season.
A quality effort on the night following an afternoon press conference which Eppler was compelled to hold after word came out that Cohen was talking on Wednesday. The press called out Showalter and Eppler’s signings and Eppler had to defend both. Now, comes Cohen’s support for both but I wonder if he will openly say if the season ended in a way that was unacceptable that these two would be asked back. That is what is creating the pressure besides the record.
Peterson has prolonged moments of quality followed by moments of complete incompetence.
Hopped For:
Peterson has prolonged moments of quality followed by moments of complete incompetence.
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Peterson has prolonged moments of complete incompetence followed by moments of quality.
Gut Reaction: the first inning DP was the turning pointing after Peterson walked two batters. Afterwards Lindor defense, especially the one that ended the 6th inning , made Peterson’s night successful. Lindor is a savior when it comes to turning hits into outs. Showalter finally rode his starting pitcher for 110 pitches and the offense was good enough to substain the middle relief. It was a good win.
Great boost by Peterson who is really fighting for his baseball life. Didn’t expect 6 shutout innings from him but this is closer to who we believed could be in our starting five. It seems we never know which version of our starter will show up on any given night. Nice power display including a big night for a Vogelbach. His HR was piling on but we always need runs. And he’s up to .220. Nice effort by Leone and strong defense. Senga and Scherzer up next. Last year we would have been thinking taking 3 out of 4. Let’s go for it.
Worth celebrating it for what it is. Good teams can teeter on catastrophe and reel in the line before hand…if the Mets were a good team you’d call the first inning a fine example of that. Peterson was 1 pitch away from falling apart to begin the game. All things considered in his near 30 pitch 1st he got mighty lucky.
Nice to see the Brew Crew worst offense show up when we needed them to do so. It gave us the chance to have offense show up. Good for Lindor and Nimmo who won the game, and fine to see The Statue (TM) tack on a Duda Special (TM).
Let hope whatever ass kicking they gave themselves, Buck gave them, and whatever whispers from the Boss coming for today’s presser was like taking the paddles out to jolt their collectively lifeless heart. To win *one* series this month they need to win out this Brewers series. I wonder when the last time the Mets went an entire month without a series win.
Looking for that ghost fork to be disappearing tonight!
Kudos to Peterson, he got the zeros even thought it wasn’t pretty at times. By no means is he back on track, but he helped them win a game and had he bombed again he likely would have been banished.
For what it’s worth, even in a low leverage spot, Leonor’s stuff looked pretty good. The HRs were also a nice lift, but I’m not sure how often they’ll face fastballs like Teheran’s dimished stuff.