Thursday afternoon at Citi Field, Kelly Johnson had solo
homer and a pair of RBI doubles and Curtis Granderson hit his 20th
homer, the Mets support Noah Syndergaard with a 12-3 win. The Mets have now won
4 straight and sweep this series from the Rockies. Colorado got to the
Syndergaard in the top of the 1st with a pair of solo homers by D.J.
LeMahieu, his 5th and Nolan Arenado, his 28th for a 2-0 lead. The
Met offense answered right back scoring three times in the bottom of the
first. Daniel Murphy stroked an RBI
double down the right field line to score Granderson. Juan Uribe hit a double over Charlie Blackman’s
head in center scoring Murphy to tie the game at 2. Johnson then doubled home
Uribe for a 3-2 lead. In the top of the 3rd
the Rockies scored a run without the benefit on a hit when Blackman walked,
stole second advanced to third tagging on a foul out and then scored on a fielder’s
choice by Carlos Gonzalez. Syndergaard
then settled down. The Mets made it 4-3 in the bottom of the inning when Yoenis
Cespedes and Johnson hit back to back doubles.
In the 4th the Mets made it 6-3 when Michael Conforto singled
and then was brought home on Granderson’s 20th homer of the year. In
the 6th Johnson clubbed his 2nd homer as a Met and 11th
on the year to make it 7-3. In the 6th the Mets made it 9-3 on a
sac-fly by Granderson and a RBI single by Cespedes. In the bottom of the 8th, the Mets
piled more on as pinch hitter Juan Lagares hit a 3 run homer, his 4th
on the year to make the laugher official.
Syndergaard was locked in after the 1st lasting 7 innings
allowing 4 hits 3 runs (earned) walking 3 and striking out 5. He gets the win
improving to 7-6. Hansel Robles pitched
the 8th. Bobby Parnell shut
them down in the 9th for the win. Johnson went 3 for 4 with the 2 doubles, homer
and 3 RBI, Granderson drove in 3, Cespedes had 2 hits and the RBI, Conforto
went 2 for 3 with a double. With the win the Mets are now 11 games over .500
for the first time since the 2010 season. They stand at 63-52. They are a
stunning 42-18 at home and going into tonight’s action lead the Nationals by 4
games in the NL East. Friday night the
Pirates come to town for a 3 games series. Bartolo Colon (10-11 4.76) goes for the Mets;
J.A. Happ (4-7 4.78) goes for the Bucs.
5 comments:
The Magic is back !
I opined here a few days ago that Recker was brought up to be the personal catcher for Bartolo in a semi-desperate attempt to help him right the ship. The fact that d'Arnaud started again today, day game after a night game, seems to support that theory. Even though under any normal circumstances Travis would have gotten the day off today, TC did not want to start Recker two games in a row.
I'd put $50 on Recker behind the plate tomorrow in the first game against the Bucs. That's why he's here.
James Preller
James,
Yeah, I'd parlay that with Recker going 0-4 tomorrow. That way we can really cash in!
Just for the record: Colon's last start with Recker catching was perhaps his worst this year: 10 hits and 6 ER in 2.1 innings, prior to which as I think you know there was a lot of talk about Recker being his personal catcher.
So I wonder how much of that was just happenstance? We'll see. This is money I'd happily fork over.
I'll take a 9 run win any time. I'd have brought Recker in for the last inning or 2 to give d'Arnaud a breather. Even without a 3rd catcher.
I believe they sent Plaw out to get him reset offensively----he is likely to be the 2nd catcher if they go to the playoffs.
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