Inside the Mets ‘club house on Saturday morning – we are forced to believe manager Luis Rojas’ account these days – they were buzzing their inner Tom Sewer with Jake Degrom on Friday night.
“We focus on today and go after the citizens again,” Roses said with Chakli, “but people were still talking this morning because it was really impressive.”
Unfortunately for Rosas, he could not start Degrom again on a one-night rest, and on Sunday morning he would not worry as much.
Strowman, who lost 7–1 to the compatriots on Saturday, deserves a mulligan after his last outing, but scratches him until further notice from a list of potential Jacob DeGrom hangover treatments.
“Degrom was incredible. … We say that he is in a league of his own. … He’s a legend, “Strowman said.” So, obviously, from the start, we wanted to walk for a short time and we weren’t able to. “
The entire damn team faced a degrom hangover, from The Hole in the Bat Gang to The Hole in the Glove Gang, and mostly to Strowman.
For Strowman, (for anyone really), it was tantamount to following Prime Sinatra, or Prime Springsteen.
It is unfair, of course, that Strowman should always expect him to be Dryelsdale for a drug seafarer from Koufax or perhaps Cosman for Degrom.
No way Strowman, even though he was pleased with his baggage, could have created the kind of beautiful music that Friday night Jacob DeGrom conducted his Flushing Symphony.
In his defense, Strowman said that no one can play this game? The defense behind him, but it is not enough to defend the day when he looked nothing like the leading pitcher who had gone to this point.
He put eight singles, some of the softer variety, some of them on time, some well, but eight singles are too much for four innings of work.
“It was eight singles, it wasn’t like I was running out of the ballpark in the interval. … It might have been a different way,” Strowman said.
but that did not happen.
Strowman quickly became agitated with inexperienced home plate umpire Edwin Moskoso, and only they know that this caused him to lose focus. Rojas rejected this notion and pointed to the nationalists in the plate rather than a disciplined approach.
“I lagged behind the count, I got into a few counts, where I had to get more plates,” Strowman said.
Strowman trailed 1-0 after only four pitches (due to a two-base error by Michael Conforto on a Josh Harrison-led single), 2-0 down in the second after back-to-back walks and Joe Ross RBI single (aided by a weak two-bounce home run by Conforto), trailed 4–0 in the third inning after 57 pitches (a slipping Dom Smith single from a line), and after the fourth. 68 pitches in a 5–0 hole.
“Just a bad throw,” Conforto said of his second inning throw.
Strowman, to his credit, absent his defense.
“I am a pitcher who wants the ball to be played in a weekly game, so I have a lot of confidence in my game,” said Strowman. “I have to get better in the game, I have to make pitches, and I have to limit runs, and I haven’t been able to do that today.”
Nationalists tormented Strowman with a haul of opposite-field singles, and the only piece of good news for the Mets to this day came from Port St. Lucie, where the rehabbing Noh Cindregard reached 97 mph during his one-inning debut and Could come back in mid-June.
Meanwhile, the Mets are again a .500 team and will not be able to spread their wings and start tweeting Steve Cohen more often and eagerly until Jeff McNeil and Francisco Lindor are hit.
(Suddenly everyone is getting run support from deGrom?)
“There’s no panic,” Conforto said. “We are what we are, we are what we are.”
They were better. Jacob Degrom cannot pitch every day.
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