Clay Holmes picked the perfect time to have arguably his best start of the year, tossing six scoreless innings of one-hit ball to ensure that the New York Mets have something to play for on the final day of the regular season. “He was just attacking the zone,” Pete Alonso said after the 5-0 victory in Miami. “I mean he was unbelievable. Unbelievable at executing pitches. He had...
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The Mets will need help to make the playoffs. The Miami Marlins scored six runs in the fifth inning Friday, knocking out Brandon Sproat and teeing off on Gregory Soto, for a 6-2 win in the opener of a series that will decide if New York makes the postseason. Sproat was sharp through four innings, allowing no runs on one hit, but gave up a pair of singles and a Heriberto Hernández game-tying,...
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Starting pitcher Jonah Tong, OF-2B A.J. Ewing, outfielder Carson Benge and 3B-1B Jacob Reimer were named Baseball America Minor League All-Stars on Wednesday. Tong, who makes his fifth major-league start Wednesday, was the first pitcher to lead the minors in ERA (1.43), strikeouts (179), and opponent batting average (.148) since the publication began tracking overall minor league category...
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Matt Shaw lined an 85 mph change-up for a single. Nico Hoerner stroked a 92 mph fastball for an RBI single. Ian Happ laced a 93 mph sinker for a two-run double. Three different pitches, three poor results. David Peterson wasn’t fooling anyone in the second inning at Wrigley Field on Tuesday, and the Happ double was the last straw for Carlos Mendoza. He pulled Peterson and after the game...
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Two of the biggest swings of the Mets’ season were three innings apart. Brandon Nimmo smacked a game-tying, three-run homer in the fifth inning off a lefty brought in to face him. In the eighth, Francisco Alvarez launched a tie-breaking, two-run shot. The Mets (81-76) overcame a poor David Peterson start, back-to-back Jeff McNeil errors, a fly ball that eluded Juan Soto for a two-run...
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