A gaggle of Triple-A pitchers and a lineup of largely Triple-A hitters confronted the easiest workforce in baseball Saturday afternoon at Citi Discipline. The outcomes had been predictable.
Within the main sport of a twin bill, 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 inside the bottom of the eighth to cease a second shutout in as many days. They couldn’t even deal with successful off of shortstop Nicky Lopez, who pitched the ninth.
It was a meaningless sport inside the grand scheme of the season, however it certainly did cast a harsh spotlight on the membership’s lack of organizational depth. The commerce deadline was used to cope with that depth, however it certainly’s clear there’s nonetheless an prolonged strategy to go, notably on the upper ranges of the system. Different teams in baseball have prolonged questioned the Mets’ capability to scout its private system and this sport did little to answer these questions.
Denyi Reyes was known as up from Triple-A Syracuse to start the first sport. The soft-tossing right-hander was tagged for five earned over 4 2/3 innings. It was an exceptionally inefficient start with Reyes using 109 pitches.
It wasn’t quite a bit higher 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 inside the eighth. The homegrown lefty took the mound correct as a result of it started to rain. By the point Danny Mendick, an infielder, obtained the last word out of the inning quite than Walker, the rain had tapered.
To make points worse, the Braves (74-41) used right-hander Allan Winans, a former Mets farmhand who was left unprotected in the midst of the 2021 Rule 5 Draft. He obtained his first MLB decision Saturday in the direction of 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 inserting out 9.
The 5 runs allowed by Reyes acquired right 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 (correct side tightness). With outfielder Starling Marte (correct groin) on the injured document, the Mets had been pressured to utilize reserves. It didn’t go correctly. Vogelbach, Jeff McNeil and Omar Narváez each went 2-for-4, with Narvaez accumulating a double and Vogelbach a home run. Atlanta largely pitched spherical Pete Alonso.
The second sport is slated for 7:15 p.m.
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