The bats and bullpen didn’t maintain up their ends Saturday night time, however the Mets have to be ok with what they obtained from beginning pitcher Taijuan Walker in his return from the injured checklist.
The 2021 All-Star hurled 5 shutout innings in a 4-1 loss to the Phillies, his first begin in almost three weeks. Walker had posted two scoreless frames in his first outing of the season, on April 11 in Philadelphia, earlier than leaving with a shoulder harm that later was identified as bursitis.
“I felt actually good, simply the shoulder and getting by means of 5 innings lastly, and feeling good with it,” stated Walker, who additionally was slowed by a knee harm in the beginning of spring coaching. “My shoulder feels nice, my knee feels nice. I’m wanting ahead to getting again to my routine and pitching once more in 5 days.”
The 29-year-old righty stated Friday that his “shoulder feels model new” since he obtained an injection throughout his keep on the injured checklist. He allowed two singles — by Nick Castellanos within the second and Alec Bohm within the third — and walked two on 73 pitches earlier than Trevor Could relieved him with a 1-0 result in begin the sixth.
“I believe another outing the place I’m restricted so far as pitch-count, however I really feel like I’ll have the ability to go six to seven innings and sustain with our starters proper now,” Walker stated. “Everybody goes deep into video games and that’s type of the aim for me proper now, to go on the market and to attempt to get deep into video games.”
Mets supervisor Buck Showalter merely is glad to have Walker, who additionally picked Castellanos off first base following his single, wholesome and out there.
“It was good to see him get again within the combat with us,” Showalter stated. “It’s been robust on him, being away. It seems to be like hopefully he’s put himself able to contribute.
“He had good life on his fastball, had all of his pitches, and he felt good bodily. It was a troublesome determination within the fifth inning, however I needed him to get the fifth if I may. … He was near the place we needed to take him, that’s why I had a pitcher prepared in case there was a difficulty there, however he was in a position to end the fifth.”
Walker’s subsequent scheduled flip seemingly might be in Philadelphia subsequent weekend, which might imply his first three spread-out begins this season could be in opposition to Joe Girardi’s membership.
“I really feel like I obtained like six pitches now I can throw on the market,” Walker stated. “I wish to throw extra first-pitch strikes and get forward extra, however I believe I'm simply protecting them off stability. I believe I gave up like one or two hard-hit balls tonight. If I can restrict the onerous contact and maintain them off-balance, I believe I can have fairly good success.”
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