The Mets gave their followers a lot to cheer for within the common season finale at Citi Field on Wednesday evening, routing the Washington Nationals 9-2 to finish the sweep and attain 101 wins.
But an important participant of the day didn’t even get an at-bat. Jeff McNeil gained the National League batting title with a league-leading common of .326. He grew to become the primary participant from the Mets to guide the majors in batting common and the second to win the batting title. Jose Reyes was the final to win it for the Amazins’ in 2011.
While the Mets and Nats have been delayed for rain, Freddie Freeman tried to surpass McNeil within the Los Angeles Dodgers finale in opposition to the Colorado Rockies. He practically did it, going 3-for-4, however that one out he made was simply sufficient to fall brief. Shortly after Freeman’s closing at-bat, McNeil’s teammates started hugging him within the dugout.
Later within the sport, the Mets introduced the award on the scoreboard and McNeil got here out of the dugout to salute the followers.
McNeil hit .378 from July 30 on to surpass Freeman and Paul Goldschmidt of the St. Louis Cardinals. Goldschmidt led the league on the time with a .334 common, Freeman was .319 and McNeil was hitting solely .287. His .326 common is sixth on the Mets’ single-season checklist all-time and it’s the best season-ending common since Reyes ended it with an NL-best .337.
The former Long Beach State Dirtbag who grew up on the central coast of California was extraordinarily influential in serving to the Mets safe the highest NL Wild Card spot. Outside of some high-scoring video games, the group struggled offensively in August and September, however the left-handed hitting McNeil produced irrespective of the place he was within the lineup, including some stability throughout a troublesome stretch.
The Mets completed 101-61 on the yr to report the second-best regular-season report in franchise historical past, second solely to 1986 when the membership gained 108 video games (108-54). For these of you having bother remembering what occurred 36 years in the past, the 1986 group went on to win the World Series.
Right-hander Mychal Givens was activated in the course of the rain delay and opened for Trevor Williams, who took Jacob deGrom’s spot within the rotation. Williams cruised by way of six innings, limiting the Nationals (55-107) to simply two earned runs on six hits, putting out six and strolling none within the win (3-5).
There have been a handful of different milestones as properly: Francisco Lindor performed in sport No. 161, rookie catcher Francisco Alvarez bought his first sport behind the plate (0-for-2 with two walks and two runs), Mark Canha hit a three-run house run and James McCann broke out of his September hunch by going 3-for-4 with a three-run house run off of Eric Fedde (6-13).
The Mets will maintain a exercise at Citi Field on Thursday forward of this weekend’s Wild Card spherical in opposition to the San Diego Padres.
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