BOSTON — It won’t be over for the Mets but, nevertheless it’s definitely beginning to really feel prefer it.
Carlos Carrasco turned in one other brutal begin in a 6-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox on Sunday evening at Fenway Park. The veteran right-hander couldn’t even make it by means of the third inning. It would have been a lot worse if it weren’t for left fielder Mark Canha, who made three outfield assists, together with two to avoid wasting runs within the first and third innings.
The Red Sox (52-47) took the collection, 2-1, and the Mets (46-53), who’re determined to avoid wasting their season earlier than the Aug. 1 commerce deadline, dropped their fifth recreation for the reason that All-Star break.
Carrasco is looking for solutions as soon as once more.
“I think nothing. I don’t know,” Carrasco stated. “I just went out there and threw strikes and they got me. There’s nothing I can do about it. I was throwing strikes in the zone, they just got me. I got a lot of ground balls, but it is what it is.”
The 35-year-old Carrasco has proven flashes of what he used to seem like this season, however general, he hasn’t been in a position to maintain any form of success from begin to begin. Carrasco isn’t alone on this — Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander, David Peterson and Tylor Megill are all attempting to determine why they’ve pitched to the identical sample. Carrasco (3-4) threw eight scoreless innings in opposition to the Arizona Diamondbacks in his final begin earlier than the break. A brand new slider grip aided in his greatest efficiency of the season.
But that begin seems like an outlier while you take a look at the remainder of his outings this season. Between the bone spurs in his elbow and the abbreviated outings, it’s been a tricky 12 months for the righty referred to as Cookie.
“I’m trying to find myself every day in there,” he stated. “I don’t know. Maybe I still need to work a little more on my pitches or on my delivery. I’m just trying to (do) the same thing I did in Arizona.”
The Red Sox hit Carrasco laborious proper from the beginning. Jarren Duran smoked a single to middle that was registered as 105.6 MPH off the bat. The Mets erased that when Mark Canha threw him out at house. Carrasco and Duran collided on the play and the pitcher appeared shaken up. He turned his ankle, however the sting rapidly wore off and he stated it didn’t have an effect on him the remainder of the outing.
“He wasn’t very crisp. It was a struggle for him from the get-go,” stated supervisor Buck Showalter. “Certainly, the play at third base didn’t help, but he was kind of challenged before that too. With a doubleheader yesterday, we were pretty short in the bullpen. We were trying to get every out we could get out of him to keep us from putting some guys in harm’s way.”
Boston got here away with a 1-0 lead within the first and Carrasco gave up extra laborious contact within the second. Typically, that’s an indicator that the pitcher is dropping management. He misplaced all of it within the third when he gave up six straight hits and two runs earlier than the Mets went to the bullpen for Drew Smith. The solely out got here from one other outfield help by Canha.
Smith couldn’t instantly cease the bleeding. He allowed two of Carrasco’s inherited runners to attain with an RBI single and a wild pitch. Carrasco was tagged for 5 earned runs on 10 hits over 2 1/3 innings. He walked two and struck out two.
Meanwhile, the Red Sox emptied their bullpen. With a restricted rotation, Boston was pressured to play a employees day. Seven pitchers restricted the Mets to solely a single run, which got here within the sixth inning off right-hander Chris Murphy (1-0) through an RBI single by Francisco Lindor. The Mets had runners on second and third within the eighth however Daniel Vogelbach struck out on 12 pitches.
There had been a number of vivid spots this weekend in Boston: Pete Alonso and Jeff McNeil appeared extra like their previous selves on the plate, the bullpen threw some huge innings and Canha threw out runners at second, third and residential to develop into the primary Mets outfielder to report three assists in a recreation since Endy Chavez in 2006.
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