Carlos Carrasco’s season veered into the territory of crushing morosity long ago, but things got ever more morose on Saturday.
The right-hander turned in his shortest outing of the year, looking hopeless over 1 ²/₃ innings of five-run ball in anin which not a single ball off the bat of an opposing player was hit below 90 miles an hour.
That included a 405-foot Mickey Moniak blast to right field , two extra-base hits from Shohei Ohtani , the latter of which preceded a Brandon Drury double . It was at this point, with Carrasco the target of boos from the home crowd, that Buck Showalter pulled the plug on the outing.Carlos Carrasco wears a dejected expression after getting pulled in the second inning of the Mets’ 5-3 loss to the Angels.“Billy [Eppler, Mets GM] and I and [pitching coach Jeremy Hefner] have been talking about a lot of things about the pitching staff,” Showalter said. “As we get into September, I’m sure that’s something we’ll talk about.
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