A gaggle of Triple-A pitchers and a lineup of largely Triple-A hitters confronted the very best workforce in baseball Saturday afternoon at Citi Field. The outcomes had been predictable.
In the primary sport of a twin invoice, the Mets had been walloped by the Atlanta Braves, 21-3. Daniel Vogelbach’s three-run homer off right-hander Michael Tonkin put the Mets (52-54) on the board within the backside of the eighth to stop a second shutout in as many days. They couldn’t even handle a success off of shortstop Nicky Lopez, who pitched the ninth.
It was a meaningless sport within the grand scheme of the season, but it surely did forged a harsh highlight on the membership’s lack of organizational depth. The commerce deadline was used to deal with that depth, but it surely’s clear there’s nonetheless an extended approach to go, particularly on the higher ranges of the system. Other groups in baseball have lengthy questioned the Mets’ capacity to scout its personal system and this sport did little to reply these questions.
Denyi Reyes was referred to as up from Triple-A Syracuse to begin the primary sport. The soft-tossing right-hander was tagged for 5 earned over 4 2/3 innings. It was an exceptionally inefficient begin with Reyes utilizing 109 pitches.
It wasn’t a lot better after that with right-hander Reed Garrett, a 30-year-old journeyman minor leaguer, getting tagged for six earned runs on 4 hits and two walks over 2 1/3 innings. Left-hander Josh Walker gave up dwelling runs to Matt Olson and Sean Murphy to make it 13-0 within the eighth. The homegrown lefty took the mound proper because it began to rain. By the time Danny Mendick, an infielder, received the ultimate out of the inning rather than Walker, the rain had tapered.
To make issues worse, the Braves (74-41) used right-hander Allan Winans, a former Mets farmhand who was left unprotected in the course of the 2021 Rule 5 Draft. He received his first MLB resolution Saturday towards the workforce that drafted him in 2018. Winans (1-0) shut out the Mets for seven innings, limiting a pieced-together lineup to solely 4 hits and two walks whereas placing out 9.
The 5 runs allowed by Reyes got here on eight hits and 4 walks. He struck out 4 and hit one batter.
The Mets had been with out Brandon Nimmo (left quad contusion) and Francisco Lindor (proper facet tightness). With outfielder Starling Marte (proper groin) on the injured record, the Mets had been pressured to make use of reserves. It didn’t go properly. Vogelbach, Jeff McNeil and Omar Narváez every went 2-for-4, with Narvaez accumulating a double and Vogelbach a house run. Atlanta largely pitched round Pete Alonso.
The second sport is slated for 7:15 p.m.
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