6/29/21

Mets News and Breakfast Links - 6/29/2021

 



Good Morning.  Kyle Schwarber does it to the Mets again as they lose to Nats 8-4, Taijuan Walker pushed back to start Yankees Series and two Binghamton Players earn player and pitcher of the week.  

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Nationals 8 Mets 4 (Box Score) Jeff McNeil 2B 2 for 5, 1 RBI, 1 K; Francisco Lindor SS 0 for 5, 1 K; Dominic Smith LF 2 for 4, 1 run scored; Pete Alonso 1B 2 for 3, HR, 2 RBIs, 1 run scored, 1 K; Billy McKinney RF 1 for 4, HR, 1 RBI, 1 run scored;  Kevin Pillar CF 0 for 4, 3 Ks;  Luis Guillorme 3B 2 for 3, 1 run scored; Patrick Mazeika C 1 for 3; Jerad Eickhoff (L, 0-1) 6 innings, 5 runs – all earned, 8 hits, 4 HRs, 1 walk, 3 Ks; Sean Reid-Foley 1 inning, no runs, no hits, 1 walk, 1 K; Miguel Castro 1 inning, 3 runs – 2 earned, 2 hits, HR, 1 walk;

Brian Joura Mets360: “Coming into the season, the Mets and Nats looked to have deep and talented pitching staffs. So, of course, in this late June matchup it was Jerad Eickhoff up against Paolo Espino. Eickhoff gave up four solo homers and Espino gave up just five singles, as the Mets fell by an 8-4 score Monday in Washington.” (Subscription required)

NY Post: “The Nationals are surging and clearly have to be considered a threat. Monday night they used two homers from Schwarber (and blasted five overall) in the Mets’ 8-4 loss at Nationals Park. The latest power display by Schwarber gave him seven homers in his last three games against the Mets. The seven homers are the most in MLB history by one player in three straight regular-season games against an opponent.”

Metstradamus: “The Mets made a valiant effort to come back, closing the gap to 5-4 partly on back to back home runs by Pete Alonso and Billy McKinney in the 8th. But errors by Travis Blankenhorn (two on the same play … told ya that defense matters) while the Mets were in a funky shift, set up a three run HR by Ryan Zimmerman off Miguel Castro to salt it away.”

Mets.com: Stat of the day – “Pete Alonso launched his 12th homer of the year on Monday in Washington, D.C. It was Alonso's 11th long ball on the road, compared to just one at Citi Field. Before this season, Alonso had featured early identical power splits at home and on the road, with 34 of his career homers occurring in New York and 35 elsewhere.”

Mets.com: Mets 'moving forward' as NL East lead slims. “It’s a tough division,” Mets manager Luis Rojas said. “We’ve said it always since the offseason, since Spring Training, and now during the season…”



















NY Post: Tylor Megill came out of nowhere to become potential Mets saving grace.

Tim Healey Newsday: “Brandon Nimmo won’t rejoin the Mets until probably this weekend, Luis Rojas said Monday…’It’s been a while since he played the games,’ Rojas said. ‘It’s still a couple more games before he joins us and he’s at that point where he’s going to be ready for us and perform at the level we want him to perform.’" 

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As we had yesterday on Mack’s Mets: “Mark Vientos and LHP Josh Walker have won the MiLB Player and Pitcher of the Week Awards for the week of June 21-27 for the Northeast League…Walker threw six no-hit innings on Tuesday night as part of a combined no-hitter with Andrew Mitchell in the Rumble Ponies 2-0 win over the Fightin Phils. It was the seventh no-hitter in franchise history. Walker is now 6-1 with a 3.02 ERA between Brooklyn and Binghamton this year.”

Mark Vientos makes the Prospect Team of the Week: “3B: Mark Vientos, Binghamton Rumble Ponies (Double-A) (Mets No. 8) .400/.500/1.200, 5 G, 20 AB, 7 R, 8 H, 1 2B, 5 HR, 10 RBI, 2 BB, 3 SO…He picked up hits in all five games he played and homered in four of them, hitting two out on Thursday. That gives him nine homers in June and 12 for the year, which now puts him in a tie for third in the Double-A Northeast.”

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New York Mets selected Mike Jorgensen in fourth round of free agent draft on June 29, 1966.

New York Mets purchased Hal Reniff from the New York Yankees on June 29, 1967.

New York Mets signed free agent Lino Urdaneta on June 29, 2005.

New York Mets signed free agent Hunter Strickland on June 29, 2020.

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1969

Tom Seaver becomes the Mets' all-time leader in victories, going the distance in the team's 7-3 win over Pittsburgh at Shea Stadium. The 24 year-old right-hander surpasses the mark set by lefty Al Jackson, an original Met who won 43 games for the new New York franchise between 1962 and 1965.

1986

The White Sox trade veteran right-hander Tom Seaver to the Red Sox for Steve Lyons. 'Tom Terrific' will finish his Hall of Fame career this season in Boston, but he will not pitch in the World Series against the Mets, his first major league team that still refers to him as 'The Franchise.'

 

2000

With more than 700 police officers on hand at the ballpark instead of the usual 60, John Rocker makes his much-awaited return to Shea Stadium. Before the game, the Braves reliever, who pitches a perfect eighth inning in front of 46,998 booing fans, had apologized to Mets fans for his inappropriate comments about New Yorkers, which appeared in the offseason in Sports Illustrated

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1971: Tom Seaver strikes out 13 batters in a 3 - 0 Mets win over the Phillies.

1992 - Pittsfield Mets P James Popoff fans 19 Batavia Clippers in a 5 - 3 victory in the New York-Penn League. It is Popoff's first professional victory.

1997: John Olerud hits two homers and Butch Huskey, Matt Franco and Todd Hundley also homer during a nine-run Mets comeback over the last three innings as they edge the Pirates, 10 - 8. For Franco, his home run is his 6th straight successful pinch-hit. Kevin Young is 4 for 5, including a homer, for the Bucs. John Franco picks up his 19th save, and the 342nd of his career, putting him in 4th place on the all-time save list.

2009: In Milwaukee, 3B Casey McGehee plays both the goat and the hero. In the top of the 6th, his drop of a routine pop fly leads to two New York runs; in the bottom of the inning, he hits his first career grand slam; in the 7th, he takes his time fielding a ground ball off the bat of Gary Sheffield, leading to an infield hit and another run; he is then removed in a double switch. Still, the Brewers bang out 19 hits, including 4 by J.J. Hardy and 3 by Jason Kendall, for a 10 - 6 win. With the loss, the Mets fall below .500.

2011: Suddenly, the Mets are scoring at a record pace, even with a topsy turvy line-up that features C Ronny Paulino batting clean-up. They pound the Tigers, 16 - 9, to set a team record with 52 runs over their last four games. Paulino and Angel Pagan have four hits apiece, and Scott Hairston hits a bases-loaded triple. Utility player Don Kelly gets the final out of the game, the only Tiger hurler not to give up a run in the game. The Bengals hit five homers - two by Miguel Cabrera - to no avail.

2012: R.A. Dickey continues his dominance, pitching 8 shutout innings and striking out 10 in beating the Dodgers, 9 - 0. The Mets' ace is now 12-1.

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6 comments:

Tom Brennan said...

Only dead balls are thrown to Mets hitters.

Another Ohtani lightning bolt. Guy is incredible.

June 29, 2021 at 6:42 AM
John From Albany said...

Ohtani is amazing indeed.

Mets gotta get Lindor hitting. 0 for 5 again. If not, he has to move down in the lineup.

June 29, 2021 at 7:06 AM
Bob W. said...

When it comes to the Mets hitting woes, when it comes to pitching to Kyle Schwarber, when it comes to a lot of things about the Mets...

A wise man once said: "If you always do what you've always done, then you'll always get what you've always got."

Not that I'm a hitting coach, so I don't know if this is an accurate read on something. Here's my thought, for what it's worth. If you watch a batter's eyes right after his bat swings through the strike zone, you would take it as a sign as to where the batter thought the ball would go it he made contact. I notice on Jeff McNeil's swings, his eyes go to the right field foul pole time and again. It would indicate to me that he's trying to pull home runs into the rightfield corner.

June 29, 2021 at 8:33 AM
John From Albany said...

Great observation Bob. McNeil has to go back to spraying the ball all over. Lindor to hitting the ball up the middle.

BTW, on Nimmo staying longer in AAA to get better. Good idea. I was at Saturday's game that saw him K with the bases loaded and get out another time with a man on 3rd. Let him get his swing going in AAA. I would have kept Almora there as well until he started to hit.

June 29, 2021 at 10:40 AM
Bob W. said...

Thanks John.

On McNeil: You will note from the replay of his hit up the middle, his eyes follow the flight of the ball after contact. Like that was the plan. I would advise him to back off the plate slightly and level his swing. It may let him get to the up-and-in pitches he's been getting beat on repeatedly. (But then I'm not Quattlebaum.)

Nimmo (and probably J.D.) will probably have the same issues that McNeil, Conforto and Almora have had. Expecting big things from the Mets offense when they return may be a pipe dream.

June 29, 2021 at 12:58 PM
John From Albany said...

Agreed.

June 29, 2021 at 1:23 PM

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