Morning Briefing: Scorching Hot Mets Win Fifth Straight Game

Good morning, Mets fans!

On Tuesday night, the New York Mets won their fifth straight game, in their 5-0 victory against the Miami Marlins. Zack Wheeler had the best outing of his season tossing eight shutout innings. Wheeler has thrown 15 consecutive scoreless innings since the trade deadline and now owns a 4.20 ERA.

The Mets started off the game, as they have in their last six, with first-inning run production. Todd Frazier got the ball rolling with a two-out double over the head of LF Jon Berti to give his team a quick 1-0 lead. The Mets next scoring opportunity came in the third inning with two runners, Jeff McNeil and J.D. Davis, on for Wilson Ramos.

Ramos lined his 12th homer of 2019 over the right-center field wall for a three-run homer to extend the Mets’ lead to 4-0. And they weren’t even done scoring yet. Pete Alonso came up in the bottom of the fifth and did what he does best by driving another homer over the left-field fence for his 36th home-run of the season.

Steven Matz (6-7, 4.60) will take the mound on Wednesday against Jordan Yamamoto (4-2,3.94) in the rubber match of this four-game series against the Miami Marlins. Matz’s last two starts have been a great reflection of his season as a whole. On the one hand, he just threw his first complete-game shutout, but then he lasted only 3 2/3 innings giving up five runs in his last start. Both starts were against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The game will be broadcasted on SNY and has a scheduled start time of 12:10 p.m. The game can be heard on WCBS 880 AM or ESPN 1050 AM.

Latest Mets News

The Mets have won 12 out of their last 13 games. The team is also two games over .500 with a 58-56 record. The scorching hot team is only 2.5 games back out of the second Wild Card spot.

With his homer last night, Pete Alonso sits in third place, behind by one run for second place, in the National League for the most homers hit this year. He is also fourth in Major League Baseball in homers hit.

Latest MLB News

J.J. Cooper of Baseball America, wrote an interesting article talking about the differences between the balls being used in the major leagues now in comparison to the ones used in minor league baseball. Spoiler Alert, they are very different.

Chris Cwik of Yahoo Sports gave fans a look into what to expect this year during the MLB’s third “Players’ Weekend” held August 23-25. He talks about some interesting nicknames being used as well as the uniform’s new design.

The Cincinnati Reds have signed Brad Boxberger to a minor-league deal as per C. Trent Rosecrans of the Athletic for Cincinnati.

The Texas Rangers have promoted Kolby Allard to make his major league debut, after only one Triple-A start, in their series against the Milwaukee Brewers.

The San Francisco Giants designated INF Joe Panik for assignment.

Tim Beckham of the Seattle Mariners, has been suspended for 80 games for testing positive for PEDs. Given that there are 48 games left for the club this season, he will also sit out for 32 games during the 2020 season as well.

The Chicago White Sox have purchased the contract of former Met, Hector Santiago.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have placed rookie outfielder Alex Verdugo on the 10-day injured list with a right oblique strain. The team has recalled LHP Caleb Ferguson and INF Edwin Rios, in addition to optioning RHP Tony Gonsolin.

According to Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area, MLB would not allow Alex Dickerson to go by “DICK” for his Players Weekend jersey name.

Latest NL East News

The Washington Nationals announced today via Twitter that they have officially signed INF Asdrubal Cabrera to a one-year major league contract. In turn, they have optioned INF Adrian Sanchez to Double-A. They also designated right-hander Kyle Barraclough for assignment.

The Miami Marlins have selected RHP Hector Noesi from Triple-A who was the opposing pitcher last night against the Mets. Following that move, the team designated INF Yadiel Rivera for assignment.