Good Morning. The Mets 5 Marlins 3 as Michael Conforto
hits a clutch 2 run 9th inning HR, Matt Harvey Pitches in KC and Seth
Lugo will start today.
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Mets 5 Marlins 3 Jacob
deGrom 6 innings, 4 hits, 0 runs, 0 walks, 7K, 91 pitches –
67 strikes; Jeurys
Familia, 1/3 inning, 1 hit, 1 walk, 1 run, 1 earned run; Justin
Wilson, 2/3 inning, 0 hits, 0 BBs, 1 K; Dellin
Betances 2/3 inning, 2 hits, 2 runs, 2 earned runs, 1 walk; 1 K; Edwin Diaz
(W, 1-0) (BS, 2) 1.1 innings, 1 BB, 4 K; Michael
Conforto 1 for 4, 2 run HR, 2 runs scored, 2 RBIs; Luis
Guillorme 2 for 4, 1 RBI; Dominic
Smith 2 for 4, 1 RBI, 1 run scored; Pete Alonso
1 for 3, 1 walk, 1 run scored; Wilson
Ramos 1 for 3, 1 RBI, 1 walk; Brandon
Nimmo 2 for 5, 1 run scored, 1 RBI; Robinson
Cano 0 for 3; Amed
Rosario 0 for 4. (Box
Score).
MLB.com:
Mets close out the series against the Marlins tonight. Seth Lugo
(1-2) Vs. LHP Daniel
Castano (0-1). 6:10PM. 213 Miles from Shea Game Preview.
Mike
Puma NY Post: Michael Conforto turns Mets implosion into magical moment. “Betances,
working for a second straight day, was entrusted a 3-1 lead in the eighth and
couldn’t protect it. After Betances drilled Eddy Alvarez with the bases loaded
to force in a run, Diaz entered and walked Logan Forsythe on five pitches to
tie it.”
Tim
Healey Newsday: “The Mets might not have a closer, but Michael Conforto got
the save Wednesday.”
NJ.com:
After Mets bullpen collapses, Michael Conforto's homer saves day. “Luckily
for them, Michael Conforto launched a baseball 425 feet to center field for a
go-ahead, two-run home run in the ninth inning. Conforto saved the day after
Brandon Nimmo hit a two-out single to keep the inning alive.”
Clutchforto! #LGM pic.twitter.com/KeXhRxiMy7— New York Mets (@Mets) August 20, 2020
Amazing
Avenue: Despite bullpen blunders, the Mets rack up their third straight win
over the Marlins. “Diaz came back out for the ninth inning, and mowed down
the side, securing the Mets win and capping off a dramatic win, a series
victory, and the Mets’ first three-game winning streak of the season.”
Gianna
Arantes Metsmerized Online: “Campaigning for his third straight Cy Young
Award, Jacob deGrom lowered his ERA to 1.93 with a stellar six shutout innings.
Edwin Diaz got the win after striking out four straight batters to close out
the game.”
Brian Joura Mets360.com:
“The Mets didn’t use Seth Lugo in this game, meaning it’s likely he’s going to
start – finally! – on Thursday. Gary Cohen was crucifying that decision in the
late innings, saying how this was a must-win game, despite there being 34 games
left on the schedule after this particular one. If you had a dollar for every
time Cohen and birthday boy Ron Darling mentioned about how big this game was,
you could have purchased a shot of top-shelf liquor at your poshest Manhattan
saloon.”
SNY.TV:
Mets Takeaways from Wednesday's 5-3 win over the Marlins, including a bullpen
gamble costing Jacob deGrom a victory. Cy Young winner looked like himself
in return from neck stiffness.
Deesha
Thosar NY Daily News: “The Mets improved to a 12-14 record following their
first three-game winning streak of the year. New York will go for a four-game
sweep of the Fish in Thursday night’s finale as the team tries to climb up the
standings with the halfway point of the season quickly approaching on Sunday.”
SNY.TV:
Mets' Seth Lugo to join starting rotation on Thursday vs. Marlins; Steven Matz
moved to bullpen. Move bolsters rotation but also takes key element out of
bullpen.
Deehsa
Thosar NY Daily News: “Seth has been a starter for us in the past and with
his ability to navigate through the lineup, with his repertoire and command,
we’re going to see what he can do,” Rojas said. “We’re going to start
stretching him out. With him already at a point where he was throwing multiple
innings in outings, he can probably give us a little bit of length with the
pitch count.”
Making Lugo a starter is a big gamble, no doubt, but I think it's worth taking. Mets' rotation just isn't good enough to contend as it is now. It means relying heavily on Diaz, but they were going to need him to have success again anyway for this team to go anywhere.— John Harper (@NYNJHarper) August 20, 2020
The Mets entered the offseason and told Seth Lugo and Robert Gsellman to prepare as if they would start in 2020 — just in the event the Mets needed them.— Justin Toscano (@JustinCToscano) August 20, 2020
Both began in the bullpen.
Both are now in the rotation.
Metstradamus:
“Now, things get interesting. I mean, Seth Lugo is now officially slated to
start tomorrow, with Rick Porcello going on Friday against the Yankees. With
Matz in Le Chateau Bow Wow for the time being, it could be Robert
Gsellman, Corey
Oswalt, Drew Smith,
Jared
Hughes… hell, I’d believe that Matt
Allan, who was just activated to the Brooklyn site, could make a start or
two before this season is over.”
SNY.TV:
Putting the Mets' rotation back together: The payroll situation, free agency,
and prospects on the way. “Of the available free agent starting pitchers
after this season, the ones who stick out are Trevor
Bauer, James
Paxton, and [Marcus]
Stroman…Beyond [David]
Peterson, the Mets have pitchers such as Kevin
Smith and Thomas
Szapucki who are potential options for the rotation in the near-term... Matthew
Allan, Josh
Wolf, and J.T. Ginn,
a trio of arms who have tremendous stuff and top-of-the-rotation potential, but
whose debuts probably won't come until 2023 or late in the 2022 season.
SNY.TV:
MRI on Mets' David Peterson reveals no structural damage to pitching shoulder.
Lefty says he's dealing with 'some minor inflammation'.
Mayor de Blasio joins Al Sharpton in favor of Mets sale to Alex Rodriguez/Jennifer Lopez grouphttps://t.co/fpi95iLpa1 pic.twitter.com/uSqeTJoAf1— PIX11 News (@PIX11News) August 19, 2020
SNY reported ARod's group admits it's Cohen's to lose #MLB can't force the Wilpons to take a lower sale price from ARod unless the other owners are going to make up the difference How is ARod going to afford the team in the #Covid_19 era? He can barely afford 2 purchase #Mets— Laura Goldman (@laurasgoldman) August 19, 2020
Some have asked me privately if the minor league teams of the #Mets are being sold. My sources say yes. The Wilpons won't own them after the sale.— Laura Goldman (@laurasgoldman) August 20, 2020
Red Sox 6 Phillies 3 (Box
Score).
Trevor Bauer did not wear these cleats during the game. He did, however, throw a one-hit shutout in the second game of the Reds’ doubleheader. And postgame took off his jersey to reveal a T-shirt commemorating his throw over the CF fence in Kansas City. His ERA is down to 0.68. https://t.co/RVxL1WBH6l— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) August 20, 2020
SNY.TV:
Former Mets ace Matt Harvey goes three innings, allows back-to-back home runs
in Royals debut. Harvey
pitched two scoreless innings before Reds got to him in the third. Matt’s
pitching line – 3 innings, 4 hits, 3 runs, 3 earned runs, 2 walks, 4 Ks, 2 HRs.
Reds 5 Royals 0 (Box
Score).
Mets
Police: “Royals fans got the full experience. He looks OK and then the wheels come off and
the HRs go over the fence. This will be
90% of his starts Royals fans, with the occasional 6 innings 1 run start that
gives you hope.”
Fernando Tatis Jr.'s 12 home runs are the most by any 21-year-old in his team's 1st 26 games of a season in the Modern Era (since 1900).— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) August 20, 2020
1929 Mel Ott is 2nd on that list with 10. https://t.co/2DcsiYaVCb
— SI MLB (@si_mlb) August 20, 2020
Manny
Machado hits walk off Grand Slam off Rafael Montero. MLB.com: After Tatis’
audacious 3-0 salami on Monday and Wil Myers’ bases-loaded bomb in the first
inning on Tuesday, the Padres have hit grand slams in three straight games for
the first time in franchise history. They’re the first team to do so since the
White Sox pulled off the feat from June 23-25, 2006, and the fifth in Major
League history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The last National League
team to do so? The Cleveland Spiders, who did it against the Boston Beaneaters
from June 15-17, 1895. Padres 6 Rangers 3 (Box
Score).
First big league hit for Sam Haggerty! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/Bu6Agx3LtY— Mariners Player Development (@MsPlayerDev) August 20, 2020
Mariners 6 Dodgers 4 (Box
Score).
Born on
this date:
- Cliff Cook (1936)
- Cory Sullivan (1979)
- Lance Broadway (1983)
- Ezequiel Zabaleta (1995)
- Matt O'Neill (1997)
- Nixon Silva (1999)
Died on this date:
- Doc Edwards (2018)
Transactions:
New York Mets purchased Bill Connors from the Chicago Cubs on August 20, 1967.
New York Mets purchased Ray Burris from the New York Yankees on August 20, 1979.
New York Mets signed
free agent Larry Bowa on August 20, 1985.
New York Mets traded Sean Henry and Jose Castro to the Cincinnati Reds for Jeff Conine on August 20, 2007.
New York Mets released Livan Hernandez on August 20, 2009.
1963
|
In his first major league start,
Grover Powell blanks the Phillies in the Mets' 4-0 victory at Connie Mack
Stadium. The shutout will be the only big league win for the 21 year-old
right-hander, who after pitching four more scoreless innings in his next
appearance will appear to lose his effectiveness when he is struck in the
face by a line drive hit by Pittsburgh first baseman Donn Clendenon.
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1985
|
Dwight Gooden, going the distance
in the Mets' 3-0 victory over San Francisco at Shea Stadium en route to his
13th consecutive win, whiffs 16 batters to become the first National League
pitcher to strike out 200 or more batters in each of his first two seasons.
The 20 year-old sophomore, who improves his record to 19-3 with his sixth
shutout of the year, matches the feat accomplished by Herb Score of the
Indians in the American League in 1955 and 1956.
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1989
|
It's a busy day on the trading
block for the Mets as they send popular outfielder Mookie Wilson to the Blue
Jays for pitcher Jeff Musselman and minor leaguer Michael Brady. New York
also gets Frank Viola from the Twins for pitchers Rick Aguilera, David West,
and Kevin Tapani and two minor leaguers.
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1998
|
At Shea Stadium, Cardinal first
baseman Mark McGwire becomes the first player in major league history to hit
fifty home runs in three consecutive seasons. Mac's seventh-inning solo shot,
the second of back-to-back round-trippers off Willie Blair, helps to defeat
the Mets, 2-0.
|
1973 - In New York, the Reds
score five runs in the 16th to beat the Mets,
8 - 3. Each team scores in the 13th.
1978 - At Shea Stadium, Dodger Blue becomes black and blue as pitcher Don
Sutton and first baseman Steve Garvey begin fighting in the clubhouse prior to
their 5 - 4 victory over the Mets.
1980: The Giants beat the Mets,
2 - 1, but lose Jack Clark for a month after a Mark Bomback pitch breaks a bone in his left hand.
1982: In Atlanta, the Braves top the Mets,
6 - 4, as Brett Butler makes his debut for the Braves. Butler
has a single and RBI.
1989: Howard Johnson hits his 30th home run of the season
in the Mets' 5 - 4 loss to the Dodgers and joins Bobby Bonds and Willie Mays as the only players to achieve 30 home runs
and 30 stolen bases in two different seasons.
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2 comments:
Tatis Jr is another super freak prospect turned star. I wish we'd get one of those just once.
Betances was not good - he HAS to be better for this team to succeed.
I like the Lugo to the rotation, Matz to pen shift - Matz cannot give up 23 runs in 23 innings and stay in the rotation. Get in the pen and throw 98. Maybe a new lease on life - it worked for Familia, who stunk in the minors as a starter.
John
I removed your dated prospect list from the right column of the lead page.
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