The Alternate Universe: Mets at Yankees 7-8-2020
By metstradamus | July 8, 2020 11:33 pm
Steven Matz and James Paxton came up with dueling quality starts to finish off the short Subway Series at Yankee Stadium, as Pete Alonso’s solo home run off Paxton in the 6th tied the game 3-3, and Steven Matz’s houdini act in the bottom of the inning, striking out Giancarlo Stanton, Gary Sanchez, and Luke Voit with the bases loaded to get out of a bases loaded nobody out jam. It was quite surprising that Luis Rojas left Matz in the game to fend for himself and frankly, I expected disaster. But it was probably Matz’s best three batter performance of his career, going to the off-speed stuff when he had to, but not being afraid to go inside with the hard stuff. Whatever Matz learned from Jeremy Hefner and Codify came in handy.
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