Juan Soto left the game against the Tigers Wednesday four innings after fouling a pitch off his foot. Soto, who was in the lineup at designated hitter, fouled a pitch off his foot in the third inning, prompting a visit from the trainer and manager Carlos Mendoza. He stayed in the game and struck out. He batted again in the sixth inning and grounded out to the pitcher. But in the seventh inning...
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In a dozen games at Triple-A Syracuse, A.J. Ewing has already put together an impressive highlight reel. He tripled in his first at-bat. He made diving catches in center field on back-to-back pitches. He ripped a walk-off single last week. The 21-year-old is coming to Queens because Jacob deGrom left. The Mets selected him in the fourth round of the 2023 draft out of Springboro (Ohio) High...
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Good morning, Mets fans! The bats were cold in the desert. Eduardo Rodriguez pitched a career-high 8 1/3 innings and held the Mets hitless until Carson Benge singled with one out in the sixth as Arizona beat the Mets 5-1 Sunday to take two out of three. New York (15-25) scored five runs on 12 hits in the series and finished their road trip at 5-4. “We needed to be better,” Carlos...
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Clay Holmes likely would not have been the guy many would have thought would be leading the National League in ERA on May 10. Of Mets pitchers, the first guess would have been Freddy Peralta (3.12 ERA) and then maybe Nolan McLean (2.78), but after his eighth consecutive start of allowing two earned runs or fewer Holmes’ ERA leads the NL at 1.86. He’s been so good that giving up two...
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Marcus Semien singled on the first pitch he saw in the second inning. He doubled on Michael Lorenzen’s second offering to him in the fourth. He singled on the first pitch in the sixth. In the ninth, with the Mets up 8-4, he drove a 3-1 pitch 395 feet to left (exit velocity 100.8 mph) for a two-run homer. It all added up to the first four-hit game for a Met this year. He scored three runs,...
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