Everything was going properly for Tylor Megill till it wasn’t.
The Mets have been routed by the Atlanta Braves 7-0 within the first sport of a three-game sequence Friday evening at Citi Field. Megill, the right-hander who has confounded the Mets together with his struggles this season, was answerable for six of these runs (5 earned) in his sixth lack of the season (6-6).
However, the loss can’t totally be blamed on Megill. There have been defensive miscues behind the large righty and there have been empty at-bats towards Charlie Morton and the NL-best Braves.
The Mets have been inspired by what they noticed from Megill regardless of the tip outcome.
“He’s doing some things he wasn’t doing before and it should bode well for him in the future,” stated supervisor Buck Showalter. “It’s been encouraging for us to have a pitcher with experience that’s young and controllable and all of those things, but it’s more about Tylor. They’ve done a good job with him down there. I know it may not look like it just by the box score tonight, but it’s a better look than before he left.”
Megill cruised via the primary three innings, trying extra just like the pitcher that gained his first three selections of the season and fewer just like the one which was demoted to Triple-A in June. But then he loaded the bases with two outs within the fourth and Brandon Nimmo misplayed a fly ball from Eddie Rosario in middle area. Rosario’s single cleared the bases. Megill then gave up a single, an RBI double and one other single earlier than the primary out — an outfield help by Jeff McNeil — was recorded within the fifth. A sacrifice fly by Austin Riley scored the fifth run.
Megill gave up one other run within the sixth earlier than he was changed by right-hander Jimmy Yacabonis, who went 3 2/3 innings, permitting the Mets to save lots of the bullpen for the remainder of the sequence. Yacabonis allowed a run of his personal within the seven when Riley homered within the seventh, however that was all he would hand over.
“I felt good. I felt like I did a really good job attacking hitters in the strike zone,” Megill stated. “A couple hung sliders that got hit and a misplaced fastball to Riley. Overall, I just think I was attacking the strike zone with all my pitches and just filling up the strike zone, getting back to where I was last year with that.”
Yacabonis held the Braves to just one run in an outing supervisor stated he was “really proud” of. The run was a solo shot by Riley.
It was the third baseman’s twenty seventh homer of the season. The Mets solely have one participant who has hit greater than that (Pete Alonso, 35). They solely have two others who’ve hit greater than 20. The Mets had anticipated to battle the Braves (73-41) for the division title, however they’ve overwhelmed Atlanta solely as soon as this season and misplaced six occasions thus far this season. They’ll face them six extra occasions.
Megill went 5 1/3 innings, permitting 5 earned runs on 9 hits, strolling one and placing out three.
“Getting ahead of hitters, attacking hitters,” Megill stated. “My pitch count was low going into the sixth. Obviously, the results were different but some things you can’t control.”
Morton (11-10) gave the Mets possibilities within the type of seven walks. He walked Brandon Nimmo twice, Jonathan Arauz twice, Pete Alonso thrice and issued free passes to McNeil and Rafael Ortega. Still, the Mets couldn’t push something throughout the plate. The 39-year-old veteran right-hander shut the Mets out over 5 innings, giving up simply three hits.
A brand new season-high was set with 14 runners left on base. It was the twelfth time this season the Mets failed to attain a run.
“Nine walks and seven hits and we don’t score a run,” Showalter stated. “We obviously had people out there.”
The Mets have been with out Francisco Lindor, who was a late scratch with tightness on his proper aspect. He was changed by Arauz, who went 0-for-2 with two walks. Lindor is taken into account day-to-day.
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