Sunday, July 19, 2020 • 7:05 pm
Yankee Stadium • Bronx, NY
RHP Corey Oswalt (0-1, 1.13) vs. LHP Jordan Montgomery (0-1, 4.09)
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Positives from last night: The Mets played baseball!
For the first time since March 11, the Mets suited up to play another professional baseball team. There were some differences.
Gary, Keith and Ron were not all in the same booth. The dugouts extended into the stands with specific seats marked “sit here.” Some players and coaches had masks on in the dugout and bullpens, others didn’t. There was less throwing the ball around the infield after a strikeout. Things we’ll get used to in short order.
The real foe of the night for the Mets wasn’t the Yankees – it was their own defense.
The Mets scattered four fielding and throwing errors throughout the night that led to things getting out of control in the ninth inning. Plenty of us, myself included, are probably reading too much into it because it’s the first real thing related to the Mets to start overreacting to in some time.
Nature is healing, I guess.
Anyway, on to tonight. The Mets will send out Corey Oswalt, who is fighting his way up the depth chart. Oswalt saw a cup of coffee with the Mets last year, logging 6.2 innings of work over two games while allowing nine runs.
In the minors, however, he started 18 games, pitching 92.2 innings with a 2.82 ERA. Before the global pandemic upended all life as we knew it in the states, he pitched three games in Spring Training, totaling eight innings and allowing two runs, one earned.
Mets Lineup
- Jeff McNeil 3B
- Pete Alonso 1B
- Robinson Cano 2B
- Yoenis Cespedes LF
- Michael Conforto RF
- J.D. Davis DH
- Amed Rosario SS
- Brandon Nimmo CF
- Rene Rivera C
Yankees Lineup
- DJ LeMahieu 2B
- Aaron Judge RF
- Gleyber Torres SS
- Giancarlo Stanton DH
- Aaron Hicks CF
- Gary Sanchez C
- Luke Voit 1B
- Brett Gardner LF
- Matt Duffy 3B
Notes
Outside of Wilson Ramos, who I thought was going to play tonight, this is fairly close to the normal starting lineup for the Mets.
It’s nice to see McNeil start after sitting yesterday and Luis Rojas is giving Mets fans something to debate, rolling with Robinson batting third again. (We’ll see if this happens once the season starts – I’m saving my complaints about it until then).
The obvious, glaring highlight in the lineup is Yoenis playing in the field. He’s going to primarily DH this year (at least that’s what the common perception is) but this is still nice to see.
This lineup will have to deal with Jordan Montgomery. During the 2019 season he pitched in two games, and in four innings he allowed three runs from seven hits.
He’s going to be rounding out the Yankees rotation as their fourth or fifth starter this year as he continues to work back from Tommy John surgery back in 2018. Overall, in spring he allowed five runs off seven hits and four homers over 11 innings of work.
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