Tom Brennan - Matt Rudick Rocks. Baty and Mo. Sweet 17

 

Future Met, this Mr. Rudick? Photo by Richard Nelson

What Has Matt Rudick Done Lately?

You be the judge.

The speedy 5'6" outfielder had a mighty hot final 28 games for Brooklyn last year:

Starting August 10, he started spraying a whole lot of hits and drawing a whole lot of walks, helping catalyze the Cyclones pennant surge as their lead off hitter.    

Matt got on base 42 times in his last 19 August games, and 14 more times in his 9 September contests.  56 times on base…Twice a game on average over his final 28 games…what’s not to LOVE there?

In his first 5 games for Binghamton this year, through Thursday, 2 singles, 3 doubles, 2 HRs, 2 walks, just 2 Ks, 8/RBIs. So the last 33 regular season games, on base 65 times. 

Geesh!

The lefty hitting 13th rounder in 2021 is picking up in 2023 right where he left off in 2022 - HOT! 

BTW, his next career error will be his first.

Amazing, that’s what he’s done. Amazing stuff.

P.S.

Baty grand slam…single…walk. .400

Mauricio HR and double 1, double 2, double 3: .380. But 2 errors, too.

Vientos hitless again, 0-5,  drops under .300.

The Mets faced an A ball team last night, the woeful As.

Mets rolled out their Mets-style offense. Six run 2nd inning on 5 walks and a Lindor slam against a desperate James Kaprelian who needed to get something over the plate.  And, like Forrest Gump, they kept right on walking. Later, after a bunch  more walks and a HBP in the 5th, the MLB-debuting Harris allowed a bases clearing double to Lindor. 

Two inning with 6 runs and just one Lindor hit. Has to be a first-ever.

These endless innings wore out Kodai Senga, who was unable to quite go 5 innings, and hence missed out on the win. 4. Innings, 7 hits, 4 walks. 52 degree night. Nogosek has an absolute gimme to pick up the win, but he was Nogo-suck, so Dennis Santana got the gift win.

17 runs, 17 walks, 2 HBP, and 11 hits, one of which came from Escobar, which lifted his average back over .100 to .114. Those 30 times on BASE jumped the Mets to 5th in MLB OBP. Guillorme and Marte each had 3 walks and 2 hits.

Jeurys Familia pitched the 9th, looked sharp striking out Marte on 3 pitches, then went to 0-2 on Lindor …and walked him, then walked Pete, then walked McNeil, then walked Vogelbach, then Perez the catcher came in to face Escobar, who hit a 2 run double, then a Guillorme single, then Nido popped up a 50 MPH pitch, then Nimmo walked, and Tim Locastro was overmatched by the catcher and popped out to left on a 70 MPH pitch to end the damage. Five runs on 2 hits in the 9th.