By metstradamus | June 2, 2021 8:26 pm
YouTube can be a rabbit hole. You can watch videos for hours upon hours and whittle your time away. And then you wonder “What the hell did I do with all this time? What did I accomplish in my life watching videos of skateboarders slamming their nuts into guard rails?”
Well if you parked yourself at the world’s largest video sharing site (I’m assuming) and watched the bottom of the first inning, you could hardly tell the difference between the literal and the figurative nut crunching. David Peterson was presented with a 4-0 lead after the first inning thanks to professional three hole hitter James McCann smacking a three run HR. But with that 4-0 lead, Peterson walked the leadoff hitter, and this is when you knew there was a problem today. The next batter, Ketel Marte, smacked a two run HR, and before Luis Rojas could get Robert Gsellman warm, Peterson gave up two more runs to bring the game even again. Gsellman, perhaps rushed a wee bit, came in and gave up a run scoring single to Madison Bumgarner and somehow the Mets were down 5-4 after the first inning.
May 31, 2021; Phoenix, Arizona, USA; New York Mets catcher James McCann (33) celebrates with teammates after hitting a three-run home run in the third inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field. Mandatory Credit: Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY Sports
With the game on YouTube, I’ll resort to the internet lingo and suggest that the Mets “might have a David Peterson problem.” I’m not sure what exactly that is except to say that Peterson is either brilliant or abysmal. (John Franco noted that his release point was all over the place.) With Carlos Carrasco and Noah Syndergaard not walking through that door anytime soon, the Mets can’t afford too many of those abysmal outings, or else their bullpen, Seth Lugo or no Seth Lugo, might drop dead from all the extra work.
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