Francisco Lindor, who is aware of about postseason pitching, surveyed what the Mets are about to face.
“You’re going to get everybody’s greatest punch,” Lindor stated Thursday earlier than the Mets practiced at Citi Area. “We’re going to get theirs. We’re going to present them ours.”
The issue is, the Padres’ first proper hook has been a strong one.
Yu Darvish has been practically unhittable towards the Mets each this season (0.64 ERA in 14 innings) and through his 10-year profession (2.56 ERA).
The fitting-hander presents a problem not like many others, relying extra on an ocean-deep arsenal quite than two or three crafted choices. In two begins towards the Mets this season, Darvish threw six distinct pitches, all of which he commanded at completely different speeds.
Throughout a June 7 Padres win in San Diego, Darvish’s greatest pitch was a cutter, which the Mets swung at 15 instances and missed eight. Throughout a July 22 Padres win at Citi Area, Darvish’s splitter was simplest, inducing whiffs on six of the Mets’ 12 swings.
“He has so many alternative pitches,” Padres supervisor Bob Melvin stated earlier than Darvish and Max Scherzer face off in Friday’s Recreation 1 of the wild-card sequence. “He by no means stops. He by no means says, ‘OK, these are the pitches I’m going to make use of and I’m snug with and be ok with.’ He can do stuff on the fly.
“Even on the finish of the season, he was engaged on just a few completely different kind pitches as a result of he was going through groups in our division a number of instances and wished to present them completely different seems to be.”
The Mets may even see tweaked sinkers, sliders, four-seamers or curveballs. No matter they've seen up to now has left them annoyed.
This 12 months, Lindor is 0-for-6 towards Darvish. Jeff McNeil is 0-for-4. Brandon Nimmo is 0-for-5 with two strikeouts. Eduardo Escobar is 1-for-6.
Alonso is 1-for-3 towards Darvish this season, lacking most of 1 sport after the four-time All-Star drilled him within the hand.
“There’s actually good hitters over there,” Darvish, who holds a profession 2.00 ERA in 4 begins at Citi Area, stated by an interpreter. “I really feel like I used to be possibly in a position to notably command my pitches, find my pitches [in the two starts against the Mets this season].”
Lindor referred to as the 36-year-old Darvish “the most effective pitchers within the sport.” The Mets will match with one other the most effective pitchers within the sport, and so they notice each base runner will rely.
“The margin of error may be very small. To beat him, you’ve received to have a very good beginning effort by your man,” supervisor Buck Showalter stated. “Runs are going to be at a premium. You get an opportunity to money one thing, you should attempt to push it throughout.
“Guys with nice observe information have video games the place they’re not so good as they've been up to now.”
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