Justin Verlander has that look: four or five days of stubble when he takes the mound, a focused glare, a game-day demeanor that if not quite ornery is admittedly intense.
for his first homer this season and the Houston Astros beat the Mets 2-0 Wednesday to send New York to its first three-game skid this season.
“My curveball this year has been really good,” Verlander said. “My slider is not as good as it was in ‘19. My fastball has playing pretty well, getting a lot of weak contact, kind of infield popups, high popups. Swing and miss is a little bit down. It’s just interesting. I feel largely the same, but the stuff seems to be playing a little bit different.”
“It's gotten me out of a couple jams year,” Verlander said. “In my mind, it was screaming changeup. And I've been working on it, and I'm like, all right, well, if there's ever a time, here it is.” Kyle Tucker singled leading off the ninth against Drew Smith and Castro, who began the day hitting .095 with one RBI in 74 at-bats, homered on a belt-high slider with two outs. Ryan Pressly pitched a perfect bottom half for his 16th save in 19 chances, finishing the Astros’ second two-game sweep of the Mets in a nine-day span.
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