3 UP Baty Arrives In atypical fashion, the Mets called up Brett Baty after just six games in Triple-A. As we know, injuries forced the Mets to make this decision. Whatever the reason, Baty proved he belonged. He did that immediately homering on the second pitch he saw as a major leaguer. Baty picked up a couple of hits in the series, and he made a very nice play down the line flashing his big...
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3 UP What Phillies Offense? The Philadelphia Phillies built a vaunted offense in the postseason. Lately, they’ve ridden the offense back into the postseason race. That was until they ran into the Mets pitching. After Alec Bohm’s first inning RBI single off Max Scherzer, the Phillies would not score another earned run in the series. If not for Rob Manfred’s gimmick rules, the...
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3 UP Record Setting Lindor With a homer in the second game of this series, Francisco Lindor became the first shortstop in Mets history with two 20 home run seconds. Of course, Lindor is the only Mets shortstop with one 20 home run season. He tied Jose Reyes’ single season RBI record for a shortstop, and he tied David Wright’s record for consecutive games scoring a run. Notably, Lindor is...
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3 UP Dominant Pitching The tone for the series was set when Edwin Diaz came into the eighth inning of the first game of this series. He recorded the first six-out save of his career leading to talk he merited not only Cy Young consideration but MVP consideration as well. It was the first of three saves for him in this series. David Peterson would pitch 5 1/3 scoreless. Max Scherzer struck out 11...
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As reported by MMN’s own Michael Mayer, the New York Mets have promoted third base prospect Brett Baty and right-handed pitching prospect Jose Butto to Triple-A Syracuse. Baty and Butto were both ranked by MMN as top 10 prospects in the Mets farm system as the season began. Baty, 22, was the Mets first round pick (12th overall) in the 2019 draft. MLB Pipeline currently has Baty rated as...
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