By metstradamus | July 6, 2021 1:27 am
The way Brandon Woodruff was going, I’m shocked the Mets got to him. He entered the 7th inning at 64 pitches, and was absolutely cruising. The only reason he wasn’t winning was because 1-0 was one of Francisco Lindor’s bunts actually had its desired intent, sending Dom Smith to third to set up a sacrifice fly for the Mets’ only run up until that point.
But Tylor Megill only gave up a homer by Omar Narváez over five innings, and the middle relievers were great, including an inning by Seth Lugo who a friend told me “seems perpetually unhappy” (well you would too if you wanted to be a staring pitcher when you grew up.) And keeping the Mets close paid off in the 7th. After a Lindor walk, the Mets ambushed Woodruff early in the count as a Smith single, a Pete Alonso two run double, and a Michael Conforto RBI single gave the Mets a 4-1 lead and knocked Woodruff out of the game.
Jul 5, 2021; New York City, New York, USA; second base umpire James Hoye (92) checks Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Brandon Woodruff (53) for foreign substances after the sixth inning against the New York Mets at Citi Field. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
Edwin Diaz came in for the 9th and had trouble locating the slider. He gave up a single to Willy Adames (who is determined to kill the Mets with two different teams this season), and a walk to Narváez to start the 9th. Then Tyrone Taylor dinked a single off a slider to make it 4-2. Four out of Diaz’s five pitches to Taylor were sliders, where a fastball possibly could have changed the eye level and changed the outcome of the at-bat. It was then that Diaz realized that the fastball was his out pitch tonight, and of his next 12 pitches, nine were fastballs and only three were sliders.
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