On Wednesday, the issue was hitting in totality, though they are not alone. The Mets’ problems to start this brief skid involved situational hitting they went 2-for-22 with runners in scoring position in the first two losses. They barely touched the 39-year-old Verlander, who allowed just three baserunners over eight scoreless innings. At the same time, we’ve beat some really good pitchers this year, too.” It’s the right thing to do, it’s a good thing to do. You tip your hat to the opposition all the time. “Winning Major League Baseball games is hard,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said after his team squeaked out two hits against Verlander. 095 with zero home runs and one RBI in 33 games this season - crushed a two-run home run to right to quiet what had been a loud crowd. With a man on and two out in the top of the ninth, Smith wanted the slider he threw to catcher Jason Castro to go down and in, but it ran across the plate.Īnd Castro - who entered the day hitting. Smith welcomes the kind of challenge that he failed Wednesday. “So anything can happen later on in the year, and hopefully we see them again.”
which went 0-7 against the Cubs in the regular season. “The 2015 Mets lost to the Cubs every game in the regular season and then swept them in the NLCS,” the righty said of that year’s club. Mets pitcher Drew Smith gave up a two-run home run to Jason Castro in the ninth inning of Wednesday’s 2-0 loss. In front of a crowd of 29,230, the Mets were shut out for the third time this season, lost to the Astros for a fourth time in four tries and were swept in the short, two-game set. The Mets’ NL East lead had not been fewer than four games since May 2. The Mets (47-29) had not lost three straight this season previously and temporarily fell to 3 ½ games ahead of the Braves, who were set to play at Philadelphia later Wednesday. Neither Taijuan Walker nor Justin Verlander blinked in a classic pitcher’s duel, but Drew Smith could not escape a ninth inning in which he gave up the go-ahead home run in the Mets’ 2-0 loss to the Astros on Wednesday afternoon at Citi Field. The Astros finally found the big hit, and the Mets found their first three-game losing streak of the season. Signing Shohei Ohtani doesn’t make sense for Mets Mets star continues turnaround with late home run to deliver win Traded pitcher not ruling out Mets return in 2024 These Mets don’t get enough credit for showing up
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