In every of the previous 4 seasons, the NL East has belonged to the Braves.
On Monday, they served the Mets a reminder that they aren’t going wherever, even when they've began out slowly of their World Sequence title protection.
Ex-Met Travis d’Arnaud haunted his outdated crew, going 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and three RBIs to energy the Braves to a 5-2 win over the Mets at Citi Discipline.
“He can hit any pitch, and that’s extraordinarily uncommon,” stated Mets right-hander Chris Bassitt, who tossed seven stable innings whereas giving up three runs, together with an RBI double to d’Arnaud. “Actually each single pitch, you gotta throw a superb one. A variety of instances you could have hitters that aren’t good at sure pitches. And d’Arnaud is sweet at actually each single pitch.”
The Mets (16-8) mustered solely 5 hits as they have been principally held in verify by Braves left-hander Max Fried.
It was nonetheless a 3-2 recreation within the backside of the seventh inning when the Mets loaded the bases with two outs in opposition to the Braves bullpen with out placing a ball in play. Braves reliever Tyler Matzek walked Jeff McNeil, bounced a pitch to James McCann that hit him on his lifted again leg after which walked Brandon Nimmo to load the bases.
However Collin McHugh relieved Matzek and struck out Mark Canha to flee the jam.
Within the subsequent half inning, d’Arnaud supplied the Braves (11-13) some extra respiration room when he roped a two-run double to left area off Trevor Could.
For the reason that Mets designated d’Arnaud for task a month into the 2019 season — after he missed most of 2018 to bear Tommy John surgical procedure — d’Arnaud has feasted on them. Together with Monday’s effort, he's hitting .469 (15-for-32) with seven extra-base hits and 14 RBIs in 9 video games in opposition to the Mets.
“He was hitting balls that weren’t even within the strike zone,” stated bench coach Glenn Sherlock, who stuffed in for Buck Showalter whereas he served a one-game suspension. “He was reaching out and hitting them the place they’re not enjoying. Trav’s a superb hitter, a giant league hitter, so good for him.”
Could, who has now given up two runs in three of his final 4 outings, admitted that he's not pitching totally wholesome. He has been bothered once more by the triceps difficulty that he handled earlier this season and can get an MRI on Tuesday.
“It’s exhausting to compete while you’re simply anxious about whether or not or not one thing’s going to harm to throw,” Could stated. “It’s to the purpose the place I’m not very comfy throwing my greatest pitches and taking an excessive amount of time between pitches to reset and attempt to get somewhat little bit of vitality to throw one other one.”
The Braves took the lead off Bassitt within the sixth inning, totally on comfortable contact and well-placed hits. After Ozzie Albies hit a one-out single by way of the open left facet of the infield to place runners on first and second, d’Arnaud lofted an RBI double simply previous first base that tied the sport.
Adam Duvall then hit a sacrifice fly to attain Albies and put the Braves forward 3-2.
“It’s simply baseball,” Bassitt stated. “You already know that ain’t going to occur lots, however when it does, it’s baseball. … Make your pitches and no matter occurs after that's as much as the baseball gods.”
Starling Marte had given the Mets the lead first within the second inning. After hitting a one-out double, he tagged up and moved to 3rd base on McNeil’s flyout to middle area after which scored on a wild pitch to place the Mets up 1-0.
Canha made it 2-0 within the third inning when he crushed his first house run as a Met, a solo shot.
Austin Riley bought the Braves that run again within the prime of the fourth when he clobbered a solo homer to left.
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