As the old adage goes, it was all going well until it wasn’t. This applies to the start of Zac Thornton’s major league career. Thornton struggled for the first time since his major league debut on Saturday against Miami. In the 6-2 loss, Thornton only lasted 4 2/3 innings, giving up four runs (three earned), walking three, and only striking out two batters. The Mets struggled...
On Saturday against the Miami Marlins, the New York Mets celebrated the 40th anniversary of the 1986 World Series Championship team. To this day, the last time the Mets have hoisted a World Series trophy. Unfortunately, with many of the ’86 team in attendance, the Mets showed why they are where they are right now in a 6-2 loss to the Marlins. Zac Thornton had his first rough outing of his...
The New York Mets ultimately beat themselves in Milwaukee. Losing two out of three to the Brewers, the Mets only had themselves to blame for dropping the series. Sloppy defense, bad pitching, and a lack of clutch hitting ultimately doomed them in two of the three games. Fine margins are often the difference between winning and losing baseball games. And this team just isn’t doing the small...
A day after Zac Thornton dropped the H from the end of his first name, he picked up his first major-league W. Thornton allowed three hits over six scoreless frames, struck out two and walked one in the 4-0 win Tuesday in front of 30,016 at Milwaukee. He upped his scoreless innings streak to 18, the longest by a Met rookie since Steven Matz’s 19 in 2016. (The franchise record is John...
After the Mets dropped game one to the Brewers on Monday, they bounced back to take game two on Tuesday. It was a pitcher’s duel between the Mets’ left-hander Zac Thornton (0-1, 2.11 ERA) and the former Met right-hander Brandon Sproat (3-4, 5.09 ERA, 91 SO) for Milwaukee as he faced his former team for the first time. For the Brewers, it was also the first time in 13 games that they had faced a...
