John From Albany – Mets News and Breakfast Links 9/13/2020

Good Morning. Born Today Frank Cashen, Happy Birthday to Grant Roberts and Daisuke Matsuzaka.  Blue Jays 3 Mets 2 and Andrew Miller doesn’t like the MLB Playoff Bubble idea.

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Blue Jays 3 Mets 2 Seth Lugo (L, 2-3) 5.1 innings, 7 hits, 3 runs, 3 earned runs, 1 BB, 5 Ks; Chasen Shreve 1/3 inning, 0 runs, 2 Hits, 1 walk, 1 K;  Miguel Castro 1.1 innings, 0 hits, 0 runs, 3Ks; Jeurys Familia 1 inning, 0 runs, 1 hit, 1 walk, 1K; Amed Rosario 3 for 4, reached base on dropped 3^rd strike with 2 out in 9^th, then picked off 1^st; Michael Conforto 1 for 4, 1 run scored,– now hitting .341; Jeff McNeil 0 for 4; Jake Marisnick  1 for 2, 1 RBI; Dominic Smith 1 for 4; Wilson Ramos 1 for 3, 1 run scored, 1 walk; J.D. Davis, 0 for 4; Robinson Cano 0 for 3; Pete Alonso 0 for 4; (Box Score).

SNY.TV: The Mets and Blue Jays close out their weekend series on Sunday, with David Peterson (4-1, 4.26 ERA) facing Hyun Jin Ryu (3-1, 3.19 ERA) at 3:07 p.m. MLB.com Preview.

You Tube Game Highlights. 

Brian Joura Mets360: If you like lousy hitting, poor baserunning, bad umpiring and terrible defense, boy this game was for you…The Blue Jays won the game on a pickoff play, one that was originally called safe and overruled by replay, escaping with a 3-2 win over the Mets Saturday night.

Metstradamus: “But to me, the key moment of the game came in the 6th inning…Lugo, who was already at 82 pitches through five innings, was winding down…Instead, Luis Rojas leaves him in to face the slugger [Vladimir Guerrero Jr.], and the slugger doubled to lead off the inning…Chasen Shreve, who would give up the inherited runner which turned out to be the margin of victory.”

NY Post: Mets lineup cools off at worst time in crushing loss to Blue Jays. “A team that entered hitting a major league-best .346 with runners in scoring position in September, reverted to its August ways. The Mets went 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position on this night and left seven runners on base.”

Blue Jays challenge call that Amed Rosario is safe at 1B in the 9th; call overturned, runner is out. Powered by @mitel. pic.twitter.com/CVcRKK18iQ

— MLB Replays (@MLBReplays) September 13, 2020

Inexcusable for Rosario getting picked off to end the game, but Ramos has to be smarter too. Down a run vs. a pitcher who has lost the plate, can't be swinging at Ball 3 in a 2-0 count, getting jammed inside and grounding into a DP. Mets have made way too many of these mistakes.

— John Harper (@NYNJHarper) September 13, 2020

Mike Vaccaro NY Post: Amed Rosario pickoff flub symbolizes this Mets’ season. “It ended on a pick-off? Of course it ended on a pick-off.”

Mets Daddy: “That’s what it’s like watching the Mets this year. We keep telling ourselves they’re still in it only for something completely stupid to come along and end the game.”

This game explains why Mets were and are not a playoff team due to the rotation issues.
Bonehead mistakes but also simply a close game that went other way. Now how to get all wins before degrom starts again to have a winning streak?

— Ernest Dove (@ernestdove) September 13, 2020

Newsday: Another crushing loss for Mets, who can't seem to find momentum.

SNY.TV: Mets Takeaways from Saturday's 3-2 loss to Blue Jays, including an uneven Seth Lugo start. Lugo allowed three runs over 5.1 innings.

WHAT A PLAY BY SETH LUGO!!! pic.twitter.com/aFKCpjtwsH

— SNY (@SNYtv) September 13, 2020

SNY.TV: Seth Lugo puts latest Mets start into perspective: "Next inning, the lead-off walk to (C Alejandro) Kirk -- that hurt me pretty big. But other than that, I thought I threw the ball how I wanted, located pitches well. It's tough whenever you get beat by them."

SNY.TV: Amed Rosario, Luis Rojas explain what went wrong on final play of Mets defeat. Blue Jays picked off Rosario, who was game's tying run, with Jeff McNeil at plate. “Rojas said. ‘We spoke briefly about the situation and he thought he was a little bit too far off the bag. That's what he told me. But his reaction was just a step slow and that's what probably might've got him. It looked really close in the replay.’”

NY Post: Mets’ Jake Marisnick exits with right hamstring tightness.

Mets.com: Giménez, Rosario forming shortstop platoon. “I haven't had very in-depth conversations with anyone, aside from Rojas,” Rosario said through a team interpreter prior to the Mets’ game with the Blue Jays at Sahlen Field. “I was told that Giménez would get a big majority of the right-handed pitchers, but other than that, there hasn't been any of these rules [relayed] about who’s to start and who's not.”

Deesha Thosar NY Daily News: 3 Mets who can help team get hot and reach the playoffs. David Peterson; Robinson Cano; Wilson Ramos.

Jason Fry Faith and Fear in Flushing talks about David Wright in “A Special One”.

Mike’s Mets talks about the Mets hitting in “The Right Approach”.

Rising Apple: New York Mets offense will need to power them into a playoff spot.

Rising Apple: Mets: How Steve Cohen can score a hat trick with Mets fans this offseason. 1) Fire General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen and hire a new General Manager. 2) Extend Outfielder Michael Conforto. 3) Trade shortstop Amed Rosario for a position of need.

Larry Brown Sports: Report: Wilpon family not listening to Alex Rodriguez’s renewed Mets push.

Centerfield Maz: Remembering Mets History (9/13/1969) Mets Win 10th Straight.

Syracuse.com: Watch old field of Syracuse Mets’ NBT Bank Stadium sheared away.

MLB Links:

MLB.com: New ace? Upstate NY’s Ian Anderson's latest gem a 1-hit start. Braves 2 Nationals 1 (Box Score).

MLB.com: Harper heating up: 'I have to play better'. Phillies 12 Marlins 6 (Box Score).

Here is the full MLB Scoreboard from yesterday. 

MLB Trade Rumors: Latest On Zack Wheeler.  Wheeler will indeed miss his Monday start, Girardi told Meghan Montemurro of The Athletic and other reporters.

MLB Trade Rumors: J.T. Realmuto Leaves Game Due To Hip Discomfort.

NY Daily News: Cardinals pitcher Andrew Miller on MLB’s proposed playoff bubble: ‘The logistics are crazy’.

MLB Trade Rumors: Minor League Owners Await Next Steps. “MLB’s plan to take 120 teams under their governance in a new, streamlined minor league system was viewed as a worst-case scenario for a time, but as the realities of this pandemic-cancelled season have come to pass, minor league clubs are focused more on creating ways to recoup some of their lost revenue.”

Meanwhile in much quieter news I believe within the next 5 to 7 days MLB teams should be finalizing instructional league player rosters/lists. Nothing is guaranteed but that's my understanding.

— Ernest Dove (@ernestdove) September 12, 2020

Today in Mets History Per Ultimatemets.com:

Born on this date:

• Frank Cashen (1925)
• Tom Parsons (1939)
• Rodney McCray (1963)
• Grant Roberts (1977)
• Daisuke Matsuzaka (1980)

Transactions:

New York Mets sold Chuck Taylor to the Milwaukee Brewers on September 13, 1972.

National Pastime.com:

1963	On Friday the 13th, hard luck hurler Roger Craig, en route to his 21st loss of the season, allows the lone run of the game to score after getting the first two outs in the ninth inning in the Mets' 1-0 loss to Houston at the Polo Grounds. The defeat marks the fifth time the New York right-hander has dropped a 1-0 decision this season.
1968	Jerry Koosman ties the National League rookie record when he hurls his seventh shutout of the season, blanking Pittsburgh on just three singles. The left-hander's 2-0 victory, the Mets' 67th win of the season - a franchise high, equals the mark shared by Irving Young (Braves, 1905) and Grover Cleveland Alexander (Phillies, 1911).

1983	Mike Fitzgerald becomes the 48th major leaguer to hit a home run in his first big-league at-bat. The Mets rookie backstop's second-inning homer of Tony Ghelfi contributes to a 5-1 victory over Philadelphia at Veterans Stadium.
2015	The Braves extend their franchise-record home-game losing streak, dropping a dreadful 10-7 ten-inning decision to the Mets for their 12th consecutive loss at Turner Field. Atlanta was leading 7-4 before Daniel Murphy's three-run tied the game after the first two batters were retired in the top of the ninth inning.

Baseball Reference:

1997: The Mets, down 6 - 0 with one strike to go in the bottom of the 9th, rally to tie the Expos. Carl Everett ties the game with a grand slam. Two innings later, Bernard Gilkey hits a three-run homer to end it, 9 - 6. Facing Dustin Hermanson, the Mets manage just one hit through the first eight innings, and that is a blooper by Carlos Mendoza, his first major league hit. Two singles and two relievers later the Mets tie it. John Franco is the winner over Steve Kline.

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