Monday night at Citizen’s Bank Park the Mets celebrated the
return of David Wright by breaking a club record with 8 home runs as they
pummel the Phillies 16-7. It was dangerous skies for both pitchers. Jacob
deGrom and Adam Morgan both got hammered and left early. deGrom had one of his worst outings of the season
only lasting 2 2/3 innings. In the 1st he gave up a 3 run homer to
Ryan Howard, his 20th. In the
bottom of the 2nd Cameron Rupp hit a long solo homer, his 6th.
In the 3rd Domonic Brown hit a 3 run shot his 5th and
that was deGrom’s night. deGrom allowed 8 hits 7 runs (6 earned) walking 3 and
striking out 3. His ERA goes from 1.98
to 2.29. Morgan left after 3 2/3. David Wright
in his first at bat since April 14th hit a long 428 ft. homer off
Morgan in the 2nd for the Mets 1st run. Juan Lagares hit a solo
homer in the 3rd, his 5th on the year to make it
4-2. Trailing 7-2 in the 4th,
David Wright singled and then scored on a 2 run homer by Wilmer Flores, his 13th
and it was 7-4. Travis d’Arnaud then went back to back with Flores with a solo
shot, his 8th and it was 7-5. In the 5th Flores hit his 2nd
homer of the game, a three run shot off Hector Neris, his 14th on
the year and the Mets led 8-7, two batters later Michael Cuddyer dialed 9 with
his 9th homer on the year and it was 9-7. In the 6th the Mets took the lead,
Daniel Murphy hit a 2 run homer off the Phil’s third pitcher Justin De Fratus
his 10th on the year for a 11-7 lead. d’Arnaud followed with a 2 run double to make
it 13-7. In the 7th Lagares
RBI single scored Michael Conforto for run # 14. In the top of the 9th Murphy
doubled and Yoenis Cespedes hit a 2 run homer, his 6th as a Met and
24th on the year to cap the Met scoring. The Mets pounded 20 hits in
the game. Flores led the charge going 3
for 5 with 2 homers and 5 RBI, d’Arnaud
went 3 for 5 with the homer and 3 RBI, Cuddyer went 3 for 4 and a homer. Murphy went 3 for 6 with the homer and
2 RBI. David Wright, in his return, goes 2 for 4 with a single, homer, his 2nd
and 3 runs scored. Sean Gilmartin got his 2nd win in 3 days relieving
deGrom with 3 1/3 scoreless innings. He’s now 3-1. Neris takes the loss, he’s now 2-1. Hansel
Robles pitched a 1-2-3 7th. Eric O’Flaherty pitched a scoreless 8th.
Carlos Torres pitched the 9th. The Mets 8 homers breaks the team
record from 2005. They set the club record with 15 extra base hits (8 homers, 7
doubles) in one game. The Mets have scored 49 runs in the past 4 games. With
the win the Mets improve to a season high 12 games over .500 as they now have a
68-56 record. They have now won 4 straight on the road and improve to 26-35
away from Flushing. The Nats were idle so the Mets increase their lead in the
NL east to 5 ½ games. Tuesday night is game two of this 4 games set. Noah Syndergaard (7-6 3.17) goes for the Mets,
Jerome Williams (4-9 6.10) goes for Philly.
6 comments:
That Flores fella just might work out after all.......I think we are going to look back at the "almost" deal for Gomez as a blessing.
Totally agree!
I've been waiting for Flores, just hoping he got enough time in the bigs (with the Mets) to figure out the level offensively. He's just got a ton of offensive potential. I'll be very happy with him playing 130 games next season between 2nd, 3rd and SS. I'd pencil him In for .280 with 20 HR, 30 doubles, and a bunch of clutch RBI. (I know, there's no such thing as clutch, and RBI are meaningless. But still). The non-trade will go down as one of the best deals we never made. Now, if I could just stop envisioning Cy Young awards for Michael Fulmer.
Well, a Cy Young is very nice for a player. But I'll take one of them Commissioner Trophies for the whole team. I think them's nicer.
The Big Mets Machine.
I did an article earlier this year comparing the career stage Flores was at to how Jeff Kent and Edgardo Alfonso's careers unfolded. I still think he will comparably improve. He will get better offensively. My bet is he has a few 100 RBI seasons before he is through, when he plays a full season. A keeper.
Flores is proof that when a player is looking over his shoulder and playing nervous - the fans show him that they love him, he relaxes and PRESTO - matching his numbers through the minors
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