Before Monday’s 1-0 loss to the Phillies, Carlos Mendoza said that Nolan McLean has “a lot of different weapons that can get hitters out.” The rookie took the ball and made the manager’s words ring true. He struck out Bryce Harper looking at a 96 mph sinker in the first inning. With two on and two out in the second, he got Otto Kemp to swing through an 88 mph change-up....
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Jonah Tong threw six innings of three-hit ball Saturday in the first road start of his career, which would typically result in a good day’s work. The problem was all three hits sailed over the fence of the Great American Ball Park. Tong retired the first five Cincinnati Reds he faced before walking Spencer Steer with two outs in the second inning. Sal Stewart, a 21-year-old rookie playing...
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A.J. Ewing has been on fire since his promotion to Double-A Binghamton, slashing .391/.423/.483 in 20 games entering Friday. He kept it up with an RBI single that extended his hitting streak to 14 games in the Rumble Ponies’ 7-2 victory over Akron. The 21-year-old speedster selected in the fourth round of the 2023 draft out of Springboro (Ohio) High School has stolen 69 bases across three...
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Edwin Díaz walked two batters, then he walked the tightrope, with a big assist from Luisangel Acuña. The All-Star closer entered a 5-4 game in the ninth inning Friday in Cincinnati and allowed a single and two walks to load the bases with nobody out. Noelvi Marte worked the count from 0-2 to 3-2 before Díaz struck him out on a slider out of the strike zone. With one out, he caught Elly De La...
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Right-handed starting pitcher Kodai Senga accepted an option to Triple-A Syracuse and catcher Francisco Alvarez will return to the Mets from his rehab assignment, the club announced on Friday ahead of a three-game series with the Cincinnati Reds. Senga, 32, has pitched to a 6.56 ERA since the All-Star break, and after his last outing, manager Carlos Mendoza said, “we’ll see...
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