The Mets will begin Darin Ruf at DH as a substitute of Francisco Alvarez in Sport 2 of their wild-card collection towards the San Diego Padres.
The choice will include some quantity of controversy. Ruf holds a median of .152 over his final thirty video games. Alvarez was solely known as as much as the Main League roster just lately, and excited the fan base when he cracked his first dwelling run on October first in a house recreation towards the Washington Nationals. He was subsequently included on the staff’s wild-card roster.
Mets’ supervisor Buck Showalter cited two major causes to reporters for the selection. Ruf has had success towards each the Padres and tonight’s starter. He’s 3-7 with a house run towards San Diego’s starter Blake Snell, and has additionally hit 5 dwelling runs towards the Padres with an .815 OPS total.
Buck additionally talked about that beginning Ruf will permit him to handle aggressively and pinch hit when essential.
Ruf will bat eighth within the order this night because the Mets attempt to maintain their championship hopes alive in Flushing.
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