The depleted Mets threw Tylor Megill against the hard-hitting Braves. No one should have expected a win. And sure enough, the Braves emerged with a 7-0 victory. But in a year where we’ve seen a bunch of crummy baseball, this was as an exasperating loss as we’ve seen all season.
The Mets haven’t made pitchers work as much as they did a year ago. But they drew nine walks in this game. The offense lately has struggled to get hits but they got seven in this game, a respectable output. But with 16 baserunners there were no runs. It’s almost impossible to believe.
But when you go 0-12 with runners in scoring position, that’s what happens. In all the Mets left 14 runners on base.
Megill put up three scoreless innings despite allowing some hard-hit balls. And when the Braves finally broke thru, it had as much to do with soft hits as anything. But after having good fortune early, it simply ran out in the fourth and fifth innings. Megill’s final line was 5 ER in 5.1 IP. For the year, he has a 5.64 ERA. He’s not good and the sooner they move him permanently to the pen, the better.
In the ninth inning, Francisco Alvarez led off with a double. And for some reason, Buck Showalter decided to PH for Pete Alonso with a LHP on the mound while allowing Daniel Vogelbach to face a lefty – something you shouldn’t do when Vogelbach is going good, much less now. Vogelbach struck out to end the game and he finished with a golden sombrero.
Ah Buck!!! Whoever thinks Buck gives a damn is a fool. He hasn’t looked like the same manager the team had last year right from the get-go.
There have been times in my life that I have struggled or failed to properly communicate the magnitude of how I feel. It is this same struggle that I am having tonight as I try to make y’all understand just how glad I was to miss this game. Maybe this fun fact can say for me what I cannot properly say for myself:
“Per OptaSTATS, the Mets are the only MLB team in the modern era to record at least seven hits and nine walks in a nine-inning game and not score a single run.”
As I continue trying to get caught up on current events, I read this on MLBTR:
“The Mets will start right-hander Denyi Reyes in the first game of tomorrow’s doubleheader with Atlanta, the team informed reporters (including Tim Healey of Newsday). Since Reyes isn’t on the 40-man roster, New York will officially select his contract before the game.”
Whoooooooooo??????? Are the Mets trying to get the Braves to pull rib cage muscle laughing or something? Why not do a bullpen game? Why not bring up Butto? I mean, the options of who to release to make room are plentiful, but is Steve Cohen going to attend the game? I wouldn’t…
It is clear we will be slogging along for the rest of the season. Sure doesn’t make you want to watch games when even the pitchers coming up look like spring training considerations. I can see giving Pete the rest of the night off and I guess it did not matter what the score was in what became an obvious losing situation. From a fan’s standpoint it would have been nice to see a knock and a run scored. If this is how they plan to go, then let the kids play a lot to see what they’ve got. Seemed that while we didn’t get the wins, when our starters for a series were Verlander, Scherzer, and Senga we believed that we had a shot at a series win.
Last night flipped between the Mets losing and the football Giants going down in a preseason loss. 6 months till pitchers and catchers report to spring training.