With the Mets’ 7-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers last night, Zack Wheeler picked up his 10th win of the season and his eighth over the last 10 starts. He struck out nine batters, allowing three runs, albeit on just three hits, while walking two in seven innings. This marked the 12th time this season that Wheeler amassed seven innings in a start and the first time Wheeler had allowed...
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Jacob deGrom did not have his best stuff in last night’s 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Relative to his last six starts (43.2 innings, six earned runs, nine walks, 60 strikeouts), his six innings and six strikeouts didn’t quite blow his opponents out of the water as one could have hoped. Even so, deGrom put a muzzle on a lineup that ranks first in the National League in...
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In his first September start since the end of the 2015 season, Steven Matz fired on all cylinders. He built off his recent success with perhaps his most dominant performance of the season, striking out a career-high eleven batters across seven innings of one-run, three-hit baseball in the Mets’ extra-innings victory over the San Francisco Giants. Matz’s 76 game score was the highest...
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The New York Mets (59-75) dropped their road-trip opener against the San Francisco Giants (68-68) by a final of 7-0 tonight. Despite locking horns through a scoreless first six innings, it was the Mets’ pitching staff that would blink before falling asleep alongside a lineup that notched just three hits. Pitching: Zack Wheeler turned in another impeccable start, lasting seven innings and...
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Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic is reporting that the Milwaukee Brewers have acquired starting pitcher Gio Gonzalez from the Washington Nationals. Gonzalez, 32, has been a fixture in the Nationals’ rotation since 2012, posting a 3.62 ERA alongside an 86-65 record and a K/BB ratio of 2.91. The numbers this season have been relatively discouraging, however, as the lefty has a 4.57 ERA...
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