☀️ Good Morning:
Sooner or later it will feel like spring instead of winter in New York.
Just like sooner or later the Mets were going to lose a game at Citi Field this season.
Their five-game winning streak came to an end on a windy and chilly afternoon in which they were held hitless for nearly six innings and ended the game with more strikeouts than baserunners.
Carlos Mendoza’s group will use the off day on Thursday to make their way to California where they will get a first glimpse at the new Athletics’ digs, before stopping in Minnesota on their way back to New York to begin a seven-game homestand next week.
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🍎 Gutting it out
Like Clay Holmes the day before, I was actually pretty impressed with Tylor Megill despite him lasting only four innings.
🥶 The cold was an issue from the start. He admitted having trouble getting a feel for the baseball, walking the first two batters he faced. His mechanics were subsequently off. Things could have spiraled out of control.
But what made Wednesday an impressive outing for Megill was his ability to re-center himself and keep the Marlins off the scoreboard.
He bore down to strikeout the side in the first, leaving the bases loaded.
He then found a rhythm, retiring the leadoff hitter in each of the next three innings, a theme of his, while racking up strikeouts and inducing harmless pop ups.
Trouble beckoned again in the fifth, in large part because of a bad turn and throw on a ground ball to Brett Baty, but by the time Megill walked off the mound, he had seven strikeouts and still no runs on the board.
It was a day when a “depth” pitcher should have lost his cool and reminded people why the Mets’ starting pitching isn’t considered a strength based on the names on the roster. Four innings is far from a great performance, and there were plenty of imperfections, but credit to Megill for keeping things in check.
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