I agree Baty should have thrown the ball, no question, but McNeil was very late getting to the bag. Just terrible all around baseball. But Cahna just struck out on, you guessed it, a check swing on a ball that bounced before the plate.Worst demonstration of baseball I have seen from Mets this year. 4 runs on 1 hit. Baty screw up of DP was horrid. The fielding is much worse than last year when it was a difference maker.
Actually I‘d be happy to start with guys who can throw strikes!Of course it’s a horrifying loss. So many things to point at. However, I have become somewhat immune to the sting of defeat. Let’s face it they’ll keep playing games but the season has realistically been over for some time.
Pitching needed to be addressed in the off-season. Almost every move they made has blown up in our faces. Verlander…boom. Diaz getting hurt…boom. Not addressing the bullpen as Andrew pointed out…boom, boom. Many of us begged them to keep adding and Eppler insisted we were good. We had flexibility to “shuttle guys”. What we needed was guys who could get outs!
For whatever reason(s), the mojo this team had last year is long gone. Andrew posted earlier in this thread one of the truest of sports truisms, good teams find ways to win, bad teams ways to lose. The Mets are right now just a bad team and proving it daily.we've lost 16 of 21 have we had such a bad stretch last 10 years ?
And Robertson is not in the role he was slotted into originally thanks to the Diaz injury.Well at least tonight the Met bullpen made the opposition hit the ball to pi$$ another lead away…..what a joke this group of “pitchers” is (outside of Robertson)
I’m afraid, BrooklynRed, that I don’t trust nor ever will I trust Peterson. Inconsistency has been his trademark despite more opportunities than almost anyone on the Mets staff. If he wasn’t a 1st round pick he’d probably be gone already. His stuff has always been passable and he lefty but his “makeup” has always been iffy. Once he falls apart he has trouble limiting the damage.And Robertson is not in the role he was slotted into originally thanks to the Diaz injury.
Tonight was one of Peterson's best outings--he must have worked out some kinks in minors because he was horrid in his first from his first stint in 2023. BUT now he has to back it up. It is time to see if he belongs in the majors--finally.