By metstradamus | September 4, 2020 3:12 am
So after all of that, the Mets and Yankees finished right where they started.
Of all the Yankees/Mets series that have been played in the regular season, this group of six games was probably the most bizarre group of games ever played between the two rivals from different sides of the tracks. And it all ended with the two teams being even … both probably thinking they should have taken five of the six games.
Thursday’s game was a microcosm of lunacy. The Robert Gsellman experiment continued to bubble out of the test tube as he couldn’t get out of the second inning, giving up four runs in an inning and two thirds and leaving the bases loaded for Chasen Shreve, who got the biggest out of the game by getting Mike Ford to line out to center to stop the bleeding at 4-0. The Gsellman experiment should probably end here. It was a valiant effort by the Mets to think outside the box, but this was his fourth start and not only is Gsellman not stretching out, he’s regressing. The Mets have a perfectly good starter who is hanging out in the bullpen in David Peterson who might need to hightail it back to the rotation. Quite frankly, I don’t know if I trust Gsellman in a relief role much less the rotation.
3 comments:
Hamilton seems to lack baseball intelligence. My gosh, home plate umpires have no consistency. Have a hard recalling so many missed calls.
Excellent summary, but I have to point out that Hamilton was balked TO 2B, not from it.
He shouldn't have tried to steal 3B, but I wonder what people would be saying if the throw were 8 inches higher and he was on 3B with none out, pulling the IF in and setting up the lead run. Or if the throw went down the line and he scored the run right there.
Gsellman has an ERA of 5.00 after 2015. Definition of mediocre at best.
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