Good Morning. Happy Birthday to Willie
Randolph and Lance
Johnson. Luis Rojas says Jed Lowrie
is a “Full Go” and yesterday Jacob
deGrom was in “mid-season form”.
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NY
Post: Jacob DeGrom looks dominant during simulated Mets game. “Facing the
Mets’ everyday lineup, Jacob
deGrom was predictably ahead of the hitters. He initiated mostly weak
contact, struck out three and didn’t walk a batter over two innings in which he
threw 34 pitches…While facing nine hitters over two innings, deGrom only
allowed singles to Dominic
Smith and Yoenis
Cespedes. He fanned newcomer Jake
Marisnick to begin his outing and later struck out Pete Alonso
and Rene
Rivera.”
SNY.TV
(No longer MetsBlog): Luis Rojas says Jacob deGrom is in 'mid-season form'
after Mets first sim game.
Poetry in motion 😍 pic.twitter.com/5xLd1r6LD5
— SNY (@SNYtv) July 5, 2020
Mets have their regular starters out with Jacob deGrom on the hill for the team’s first sim game of summer training.
— Deesha (@DeeshaThosar) July 5, 2020
Here’s deGrom’s first pitch (and then some) against Jake Marisnick, who struck out looking. Dom Smith and Ces were the only two players to get hits off him. pic.twitter.com/JSZrGFDiDB
Mets.com:
Back on field, Lowrie aims to contribute in '20. “About two hours after
Mets manager Luis Rojas described Jed Lowrie as a “full go” on Sunday…Lowrie
emerged onto the Citi Field dirt with a group of teammates...Unlike his
teammates, however, Lowrie was not sprinting. Wearing a brace on his left leg,
Lowrie instead jogged slowly around the basepaths when it was his turn to run.
He never approached anything resembling full speed.”
Here's Jed Lowrie (gray shirt) participating in baserunning drills with his Mets teammates, though it's nothing remotely close to full speed. pic.twitter.com/Pcjng64AQV
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) July 5, 2020
NY
Post: Yoenis Cespedes’ ‘good day’ in field, at plate for Mets had one omission
– no players ran the bases after hitting.
Mets.com:
Céspedes plays LF for an inning in sim game. Amed
Rosario, Marcus
Stroman make their Summer Camp workout debuts.
NY
Post: Mets’ Dellin
Betances sees results after shutdown: ‘Blessing in disguise’.
Dellin Betances getting some work in 😤 pic.twitter.com/96WaVzyKTt
— SNY (@SNYtv) July 5, 2020
NY
Post: Mets will open 2020 MLB season at home against the Braves. “MLB is
expected to release the official schedule this week, with the Braves at Citi
Field on July 24 to kick off the Mets’ season.”
Mets 360.com: This
year’s schedule to highlight rivalries old and new for the Mets. Brian Joura talks how the Mets faced a house
of horrors in Turner Field in the 90’s and about this season notes: “In the
60-game sprint of 2020, the Mets are going to have to do better against the
Braves – percentage-wise – than they did last year, while hoping to mimic what
they did against the Nats and Marlins.”
Mike’s Mets: No
Offense Required. Mike looks back at Don Hahn.
Let’s go @Mets! https://t.co/pm1WP6EkQk pic.twitter.com/9rMhPA90Ri
— Brodie Van Wagenen (@GMBVW) July 5, 2020
From L-R: Bill Short, Cal Koonce and Ron Taylor of the 1968 @Mets. #LGM #MetsRewind pic.twitter.com/iXoBvijjC8
— Mets Rewind (@metsrewind) July 5, 2020
Masahiro Tanaka was hit in the head with a line drive from the bat of Giancarlo Stanton during a simulated game.pic.twitter.com/biProHbgeK
— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) July 4, 2020
MLB
Trade Rumors: NL East Notes: Phillies offseason addition Zack
Wheeler is still weighing his options about participating in the 2020
season.
“Sports are like the reward of a functioning society”
— joon (@joonlee) July 5, 2020
“We need help from the general public. If they want baseball, please wear a mask, social distance, keep washing your hands”
Sean Doolittle lays out the stakes of what’s going on right now in MLBpic.twitter.com/E7m9XiwMh2
ESPN.com:
Frank Robinson's name belongs on baseball's MVP trophy. “Robinson is the
only player to win MVP awards in both the National League (1961) and the
American League (1966).”
Yahoo
Sports: Indians manager Terry Francona supports team name change: 'It's time to
move forward'.
Yesterday in Japan:
Last weekend in the KBO:
Hanwha Eagles 6 Doosan Bears 2 Chris
Flexen had a tough start Saturday for the Doosan Bears,
4 innings, 9 hits, 6 runs (Box Score).
Yesterday it was the NC Dinos 7 Kia
Tigers 6 Aaron
Altherr 0 for 3 with a walk , 1 run (Box
Score).
Mack’s Blast
from the Past: 7/6/12: The Game of the Year. Neither the Savannah Sand
Gnats nor the Charleston RiverDogs scored for the first nine and a half innings
Friday night. However, Savannah 3B Aderlin
Rodriguez changed that with one swing leading off the bottom of the 10th
inning, blasting a 2-1 offering over the leftfield wall fora 1-0 Gnats’
victory. Gnats’ starter Michael
Fulmer gave the team seven scoreless innings, yielding just two hits and a walk
while striking out four. He finished seven innings for the second time as a
professional. Reliever Chasen
Bradford held the ‘Dogs off the board in the eighth and ninth innings,
while TJ Chism worked a 1-2-3 top of the 10thwith two strikeouts to earn his
second win of the year.
Born on this date:
- Willie Randolph (1954)
- Lance Johnson (1963)
- Jordany
Ventura
(2000)
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1962
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Rod
Kanehl, appearing as a pinch-hitter, hits the first grand slam in Mets
history, going deep off Bobby
Shantz in the eighth inning of the team's 10-3 victory over the Cardinals
at the Polo Grounds. The bases loaded round-tripper comes in the 79th game of
the franchise's existence.
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1962
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In a rare Mets victory, Gil
Hodges goes deep off Redbird hurler Ray
Sadecki for his 370th and final home run of his career, finishing tenth
on the all-time list and with the most round-trippers ever hit by a
right-handed batter in the National League. In attendance at the Polo Grounds
contest is eight year-old Howie Rose, the future Mets radio voice watching
his first major league game, and Ralph Kiner, the play-by-play announcer for
the expansion team, who will have the quiet first baseman on his postgame
show, Kiner Korner, reminding his guest that the right-handed NL home run
mark had been established by him in 1954.
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2004
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Recently acquired outfielder Richard
Hidalgo establishes a club record, homering in five straight games for
the Mets. In 16 games with New York, the former Astro has eight home runs,
compared to hitting just four with Houston in 56 games.
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1970: Tommie Agee hits for the cycle to pace the Mets to a 10 - 3 win over
the Cardinals. Jim McAndrew is the winning pitcher.
1976 - Houston's J.R. Richard allows 10 walks but no runs in shutting out
the Mets, 1 - 0, in 10 innings. Starter Jon Matlack is the losing pitcher.
2004 - Recently-acquired outfielder Richard
Hidalgo establishes a club
record homering in five straight games for the Mets. In 16 games with New York, the former Astro has eight home runs compared to just four
he hit with Houston in 56 games.
2010: Johan Santana provides his own run support, banging the first homer of his
career in a three-hit shutout of the Cincinnati Reds, 3 - 0.
The Mets' ace
connects off Matt Maloney for a solo shot that opens the scoring in the 3rd.
You tube:
7/6/16:
Flores slugs the Mets to a 4-2 win. Wilmer Flores stole the show at Citi Field as he bashed
two solo home runs, as Jacob
deGrom fanned seven over seven innings.
7/6/18:
Condensed Game: NYM 5 TB 1. The Jose
Bautista Grand Slam walk off.
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I was hit in the face once from an a liner hit down the third base line. All I remember about it was the shock felt when it struck.
ReplyDeleteThat Giancarlo Stanton is one big headache.
ReplyDeleteCespedes owns Jake deGrom. MVP next?
If Lowrie is ineligible for insurance payout to Wilpons, he should be a 30 man pinch hitter. Brace for impact.
Betances will be a big asset, I think.