![]() Tuesday, September 20: Carlos Carrasco vs. After striking out a season-high 14 over 8.0 innings against the Giants on September 8, he pitched 7.0 innings against the Cardinals on September 14 and took the loss after being charged with three earned runs on seven hits with five strikeouts. He finished last year leading the NL in ERA, FIP, K/9, and HR/9, though his numbers in each of those have regressed, while his 47 walks represent a career-high. In his rehab start in Syracuse, he threw 59 pitches and went 3 2⁄ 3 innings, allowing one earned run on three hits while striking out sevenīurnes (2022): 179.0 IP, 219 K, 47 BB, 22 HR, 2.97 ERA, 3.26 FIP, 0.98 WHIP, 3.7 bWARīurnes, the reigning NL Cy Young winner, is having another great season, though a slight step down from his incredible 2021 campaign. In that start against the Nationals, he was cruising through five, allowing one earned run on three hits with one walk and five strikeouts before removing himself from the contest. He exited his September 3 start with fatigue on his left side, which is an after-effect from his oblique injury earlier in the year. Scherzer will make his return from the injured list after the minimum 15-game stay. They currently find themselves 1.5 games behind the Phillies and two games behind the Padres. Their lone hope at a postseason spot comes in the form of the Wild Card, and the added spot could give them the in they’re looking for. Despite the series win, Milwaukee finds themselves buried in the NL Central race, sitting eight games behind the resurgent Cardinals. The Brewers are coming off taking two of three against the Yankees. Oh, and the team’s pitchers struck out 20 batters, setting a new franchise record and tying the major league mark for most strikeouts in a nine-inning game. The Mets went 4-for-18 with runners in scoring position and left 13 on base, but they broke an 0-for-19 stretch with the bases loaded in the eighth when Vogelbach came through with a big two-run single. The three-run blast was the only real blemish against his record, as deGrom struck out 13 and didn’t walk any over five-plus innings of work. The Mets scored three runs over the first two frames, but a Cruz homer off Jacob deGrom knotted the score up at three in the sixth. On Sunday, the Mets again struggled with runners in scoring position but came through when it counted, putting up four in the eighth to earn a hard-fought 7-3 victory. Peterson surrendered a Rodolfo Castro homer in the ninth, and Adam Ottavino came in to finish things off. It didn’t matter much, because the combination of Chris Bassitt and David Peterson held Pittsburgh scoreless through eighth. They added two more runs on bases loaded walks in the sixth and eighth but, ultimately, squandered a number of great opportunities to build a bigger lead. His three-run blast gave the Mets a lead they would not relinquish, and proved to be the club’s only hit in 12 tries with runners in scoring position. On Dollars 4 Dingers Day, the Mets came through with a 5-1 win thanks to, what else, an Eduardo Escobar dinger. Luckily, Citi Field was big enough to contain it. Edwin Díaz came in for the five-out save and was able to secure it, though the final batter of the game hit one to the warning track that looked for a minute like it may be going out. They would need every bit of those runs because, with the score 4-1 in the eighth, Oneil Cruz hit a homer off Taijuan Walker that made it 4-3. New York got their four runs thanks to a Tomás Nido run-scoring single in the third, a Vogelbach solo shot in the fourth, a Pete Alonso sacrifice fly in the sixth, and a Brandon Nimmo run-scoring single in the seventh. The Mets won a close one on Friday night, holding on to beat Pittsburgh 4-3. Daniel Vogelbach knocked in three runs, and Mark Vientos picked up his first career hit and run batted in. The big blast came courtesy of Francisco Lindor, who hit his 24th home run of the season, breaking Asdrubal Cabrera’s single-season record for home runs by a Mets’ shortstop. The bats broke out on Thursday with a resounding 7-1 win. The Mets took two of three when the two clubs faced off at Citi Field in June.Īfter getting swept by the Cubs, the Mets rebounded by sweeping the Pirates to finish off a winning homestand-something that did not feel possible after Wednesday’s defeat. The team’s magic number heading into Wisconsin is two, meaning one win in this series against Milwaukee will secure the team’s first trip to the postseason since 2016. The Mets (93-55) will head to Wisconsin with clinching a postseason berth on their mind as they play three with the Brewers (78-68).
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