Metstradamus: The Road To Vindication Where Worry Is At Every Rest Stop

 

By metstradamus | April 7, 2021 12:19 am

So here’s the good news: Marcus Stroman had a strong first outing of the season, going six innings while giving up two walks and three hits (one of them a six-iron to center field by Didi Gregorius). The stuff is there for sure. He yanked a couple fo off speed pitches here and there, but he got a ton of ground balls. As I had thought would happen and hoped would happen, the good folks at Codify have really helped him with keeping hitters off balance.

(Editor’s note: Stroman’s ERA is 1.50 while Trevor Bauer’s ERA is 5.86.)

The Mets stoked Stroman to a 2-0 lead when Dom Smith went oppo-tomahawk on a pitch near his eyes for a dinger. Then after Stroman’s final inning, the Mets scored six runs in the 7th as Vince Velasquez walked Luis Guillorme, James McCann, Brian McCann, Jeff McNeil, Neil Armstrong, Brandon Nimmo, Lee Mazzilli, Doug Flynn, Steve Henderson, Del Unser, and the Shea Girls, which led to a sac fly, a steal of home which was a nice way of saying that Didi Gregorius dropped an easy throw from JT Realmuto, and a double by Michael Conforto to give the Mets a 6-1 lead and salt the game away.

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