The Mets were hoping for a fresh start after the All-Star break. Instead, the second half began with more of the same in a dispiriting loss. 'This was not a good game of baseball in any facet.' ✍️ TimBritton
. Walking the 7-8-9 hitters is such a bad idea that, in 494 previous regular-season starts, in 1,261 prior circumnavigations of an opponent’s lineup, Verlander had never done it.should have caught but didn’t, bringing home the first run. Freeman followed by stinging a fastball down the right-field line for two bases and two more runs. The 7-8-9 hitters all scored.
“I just lost feel,” the pitcher said. “Inexcusable. … It just can’t happen, especially at the bottom of the order there. To roll it over in that situation with walks is the last thing you want to do as a pitcher.”“You can’t walk six guys and expect to give your team a chance,” he said.“That’s not a good recipe against any team at this level, especially them,” Showalter said.’s leadoff knock in the first.
“I don’t think that the urgency is something that just turned on,” he said. “It sounds like it’s been there for a while.”Subscribe to The Athletic for in-depth coverage of your favorite players, teams, leagues and clubs. Try a week on us.is a senior writer for The Athletic covering the New York Mets. He has covered Major League Baseball since 2009 and the Mets since 2018. Prior to joining The Athletic, he spent seven seasons on the Red Sox beat for the Providence Journal.
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