Following Friday’s 5-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, manager Mickey Callaway announced that the Mets will promote Chris Flexen to start on Saturday afternoon. Flexen, 24, will fill in for ace Jacob deGrom, who has been placed on the 10-day injured list (retroactive to April 16) with elbow soreness and is currently headed back to New York for an MRI. Flexen last started for the...
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The offices of Major League Baseball handed down suspensions to the players and coaches involved in yesterday’s benches-clearing incident at Guaranteed Rate Field, as first reported by ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Kansas City Royals pitcher Brad Keller was suspended five games for intentionally hitting Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson with a 92 mph fastball after his emphatic...
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Coming into last night’s contest with the Philadelphia Phillies, Steven Matz appeared to be the only remaining starter with a clean account. Noah Syndergaard yielded five runs on nine hits and three walks the night before, Jacob deGrom had suffered another underwhelming performance in Atlanta on Sunday, Jason Vargas battled through a third of an inning in the sweltering heat, and Zack...
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Brandon Nimmo was pulled from tonight’s game in the bottom of the first inning following the pitching substitution of Drew Gagnon for Steven Matz. Nimmo ran out of room on a three-run homer off the bat of Maikel Franco one pitch earlier, and complained of neck pains shortly thereafter. He was replaced by Juan Lagares. The Mets announced that Nimmo left the game with a stiff neck. Nimmo...
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The New York Mets (8-4) took down the Atlanta Braves (7-5) by a final of 6-3 in their first meeting of the season. The evening’s winning pitcher was starter Steven Matz, while Braves’ starter Kevin Gausman was pegged with the loss. Edwin Diaz came away with his fifth save of the season. Offense After going down in order against righty Kevin Gausman the prior inning, the Mets answered...
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