Morning Briefing: Mets Hope To Bounce Back Against Braves

Good morning, Mets fans!

On Friday night, the Mets lost in heartbreaking fashion after a 14 inning 2-1 loss to the Atlanta Braves. Jacob deGrom had yet another historic “do-it-yourself” outing, striking out 13 batters and allowing only one run in seven innings pitched, while also scoring, what proved to be, the Mets only run of the night on a home run over the left-center field fence.

DeGrom is now the first pitcher in major league baseball history to strike out 13+ batters and hit a home run twice in the same season: April 3 and August 23. In Friday night’s outing, the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner has lowered his ERA to 2.56 for the 2019 season, while current front runner for 2019 NL Cy Young, Hyun-Jin Ryu, gave up seven earned run through 4.1IP against the Yankees.

Zack Wheeler, “Wheels” (9-7, 4.40), will face off against Max Fried, “Maximus” (14-4, 3.83) in the second game of this three-game series on Saturday. Wheeler threw five innings of four-run baseball (three earned) in his last outing against the Kansas City Royals in a Mets 11-5 win August 18, while Fried had a similar line in his last start against the Los Angeles Dodgers on that same date.

The game will be televised on PIX11 and broadcasted via radio stations, WCBS 880 AM and ESPN 1050 AM.

Latest Mets News

The team has fallen to two games back the in NL Wild Card standings with the Nationals win over the Cubs yesterday afternoon.

After filing a trademark application for “TOM TERRIFIC”, Tom Brady has been denied in his efforts to trademark the nickname as his own. He was denied because the name reflected that of former Mets pitcher Tom Seaver and would confuse people.

Phil Regan has been working a lot with Edwin Diaz and explains that if Diaz can get control of his slider he will be back to his dominant self, via David Lennon of Newsday.

The Mets signed RHP Nick Rumbelow from the independent Atlantic League and he will head to Triple-A Syracuse.

Latest MLB News

Sports Illustrated’s Stephanie Apstein wrote an article on the inconsistencies of MLB’s domestic violence policy and the Dodgers seem to be benefiting from it.

Travis Sawchik of FiveThirtyEight wrote about how relief pitchers have been doing way worse than their starting pitcher counterparts this year which never was the case in years past. Starting pitchers are out-throwing the relief pitching for the first time since the ’70s, the problem? Over-usage among other things.

J.P. Hoornstra covered the recent increase in pay to the Blue Jays minor league staff which has made their lives a lot easier.

NBC Sports reporter, Jessica Kleinschmidt, revealed two MiLB suspensions for the use of PEDs.

Yankees have claimed Cory Gearrin off waivers from the Mariners according to Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic.

Former Met, Chasen Bradford underwent Tommy John surgery last week.

Latest NL East News

Brian Anderson of the Miami Marlins suffers from a broken bone in his left hand after being hit by a 93.9 mph fastball from Phillies pitcher Vince Velasquez.

Austin Riley (sprained knee) and Darren O’Day (forearm strain), of the Atlanta Braves, have started their rehab assignments Friday.