TONG TRIUMPHANT!!
TONG WAS GREAT.
TERRIFIC, ACTUALLY.
REGARDLESS OF WHAT DOUBTING DOUGIES OR NITPICKING NELLIES SAY.
Yeah, yeah, he gave up a 3 run HR on a grooved fastball, but that hitter had a few prior swings in that at bat that could have resulted in outs. They didn’t. That’s baseball.
Heck, MLB hitters have already surrendered 5,000 homers this year, just for a little perspective. Homers happen.
It was ONE bad pitch. He weathered that sudden storm and did great. He got the W. He fanned 7 and walked one in 5 innings.
By comparison, respected Miami starter Eury Perez, a good hurler, sucked.
So should Perez be condemned for a bad start? No. And Tong was GOOD.
In career losses, Sandy Koufax was 0-87, with a 5.15 ERA. HE SUCKS, the Queens fans would be screaming. Even Sandy had off days.
The Citi Fools would have booed Sandy out of Queens early in his career when he wasn’t yet Superman.
Remember that before you start nitpicking Jonah Tong. It was a GOOD start.
I am very much looking forward to Tong’s next successful start.
And his jointing the Mets rotation in 2027.
I just hoping he stops looking like a 17 year old kid in interviews.
Lastly, back to my point the other day…the Mets were SO SMART to have Tong make that initial start on the road.
Can you imagine the booing Queens idiots getting on Tong in Citi Field after he gave up that 3 run homer?
Braying like brainless mules.
AND…
OTHER CHEWY CHUNKS!
Moving On…Elsewhere in the Mets Kingdom on Sunday:
St Lucie rallied in the 12th on Sunday to win 11-10, with Lucie hitters walking 11 times, fanning 18 times, and racking up just 7 hits.
Eleven runs, eleven walks. There was one more “eleven”:
St Lucie used 11 pitchers. Yes. Eleven.
The other team used “only” nine pitchers.
TWENTY PITCHERS USED IN ONE GAME?
YEAH, SO?? NOT A RECORD…
Guinness Book noted the following:
“The record for the most pitchers used by a single team in a Major League Baseball game is 13, while the record for a combined game is 24 pitchers.”
But it was simply too many pitchers used by St Lucie and their opponent. The second game of what was supposed to be their season-ending doubleheader was canceled, due to lack of pitchers, no doubt.
Four St Lucie pitchers made their final day pro debuts - Petrovic (6th round), McNeillie (5), Koenig (8), and Guidry (16) - they nicely combined for 1 run on 2 hits, 2 walks, and 7 Ks.
A fifth drafted pitcher pitched, Mr. Crochfelt (14),th round), somehow was in his 3rd pro one-inning outing. In those 3 outings, 9 up, 9 down, 4 Ks.
NICE.
Elsewhere, Calvin Ziegler started for Brooklyn in the last game of their season on Sunday. I am guessing he was on a 10-pitch limit LOL.
Inning was 1-2-3, 10 pitches, 7 for strikes. Done for the day.
Baby steps.
Jefferson Rojas had a 4 hit game Sunday in AA, including a HR. Impressed.
- First 26 J Ro Binghamton games, 9 HRs, 29 RBIs? Wow.
In Syracuse on Sunday, D’Andre Smith had a double, HR, and 2 RBIs.
In AAA, in a late-season super storm surge after an injury-filled, unproductive previous 37 games at lower levels, Smith has crushed his way onto the radar screen:
21 AAA games, .344/.425/.578! A slash line Juan Soto would like.
On Tuesday, in just his 26th game in the Mets organization, Billy Amick has an amazing 13 HRs and 33 RBIs in just 95 at bats!
WHAT?! WOW!
NY METS CHUNKS:
On Saturday, in Queens, the Mets’ Brett Baty hit a ball off the top edge of the left field wall that stayed in play for a double.
On Sunday, he pinch hit a short HR to the same spot in left. It went a mere 360 feet, perhaps catchable for a 6’2” outfielder.
Fortunately, 5’8” (in his cleats) LF Drew Gilbert came up “short” on his leap attempt.
I love short players…especially when they are on opposing teams.
More…
Bo Bichette? Just .210/.273/.297 with 2 HRs and 15 RBIs through May 18.
The dreaded “Citi Slump” greeted his arrival.
From May 19 thru September 7, however, he added 14 HRs, 57 RBIs, and season-wise is up to .266/.314/.401.
He is a hitting pro. Like, in fact, a former Met…
Cleon Jones, a similar hitter, got off to a dreadful start well into his 1968 season, but he turned it around sharply in late May 1968 and finished strong at .297, one of baseball’s best batting averages in the so-called Year of the Pitcher.
The next year, in 1969, Jones killed it at .340. Hopefully that 1969 outburst will mirror what Bo produces for the Mets in 2027.
On Tuesday…
Sean Manaea (5-7) proved he is a 5 inning pitcher, with 5 perfect innings, and just 52 pitches. He went from 5 innings no runner, to 5 straight runners on base.
Then, he allowed a dinky 110 foot bloop floater to break up the perfecto, then imploded as he gave up 4 more straight hits and got pulled.
Mets win 7-5, with gutsy relief pitching. Nate Lavender earned his NINTH HOLD, and extended his career scoreless streak to 14 innings! Kodai Senga finished off a tight save' his 7th, with 10 straight ghost fork pitches. HRs by Lindor, Soto, and Baty.
BUT…a moment of reality to ponder…as the Mets head to another sub .500 season, the Yankees on Tuesday night secured a winning record…
FOR THE THIRTY FOURTH STRAIGHT SEASON! UNREAL!
CAREER GROWTH - IN THE NICK OF TIME
Nick Morabito flopped in his early season MLB debut: 0-11, 9 Ks. Ouch.
But, through Monday, THE SECOND ACT OF NICK has gone much better:
Since being called back up, 4 for 12, 4 RBIs, 2 walks, 1 steal, and just 1 K.
I like the 2nd act of Nick the Quick myself. It will be a long-running show.
The real Nick quickly showed up.
7 comments:
Tong is ready
He is much more battle-tested.
Very pleased that he did well. After last season's implosion game, he needed to have a good start for his confidence. It all gets a little easier from here.
Team still needs a 2027 ace
Manaea is our 5 inning ace LOL
Seriously, you don’t think McLean is an ace? We could always use a second one, of course. Not named Peralta.
Manaea has given up 31 runs in 28 sixth and seventh innings. His first 5, he’s been good. Five and done.
You mean, like five inning Freddie? Did y’all see Peralta’s start the other night? He was ridiculous.
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