Buck Showalter was unable to return to major league dugouts for three years and said the team’s owners and new-age front office officials felt the old-school manager was asking too much authority . are you there?
Oh dear God
The cultural shift in Queens was so dramatic when the Mets’ record was flipped from 77-85 in 2021 to 69-39 this year. With that, he extended his divisional lead to 5½ games … and at home on Sunday in that five-game set final, in which his team won their three of their first four games. Jacob deGrom came from the barrel.
Last year fans and players gave each other a thumbs up. 500 for the Mets for the first time since 2006.
“That’s what you play the game for,” said Max Scherzer after batting seven innings in Game 2, throwing a season-high 108 pitches and recording 11 strikeouts. I’m playing great baseball.”
The Mets have played an old-school style of attacking the game, mixing in enough new-age swagger and styling to appeal to all generations since Hobie Landris popped a two-run homer on a 257-footer -Fly has struck. do. On the right field line at the Polo Grounds with an on and two out in the 9th inning to break what Warren Spahn signed in April 1962 and Scherzer last December. became.
They’re playing hardball, like they did when Pete Alonso went hard on second base to make a double play in Nightcap’s third inning. resulting in a throwing error by Dansby Swanson. It was Alonso who later hit Travis Durneau hard, slamming third baseman Austin Riley’s shot to the plate to make it 4-0.
“Donnie didn’t run well, but he was a great baserunner,” Showalter said, referring to Don Mattingly. “He’s sprinting. Just because he can’t win contests doesn’t mean he can’t be a good baserunner.
“He’s very proud of it.”
They are ready and brave as Luis Guirolme led the fifth inning of Game 2. The Braves tied 3-0 with runners on 1 and 3 with an out. The infielder came back when Ehire Adrianza hit a ground ball in his second. Rather than slacking off and allowing the run, Görme drove an 88-mile shot into Thomas his Nido. Thomas Nido slid while neatly tagging Darneau to keep Atlanta off the board.
This is opportunistic and exploits the faults of the opposition, both coerced and uncoerced. Francisco His Lindor has been evolving happily and dynamically in his sophomore year in New York, and in his third inning of Game 1 he hit first base with two outs and his team finished his 2-0 record. kept his lead. In Foul Territory, Lindo can take second base.
Moments later, Lindo crossed the plate from Jeff McNeil’s RBI single to right field and gave the Mets a 3-0, 8-5 win. There are no small games in this game. There are no small players on this team.
The Mets can run, bat, and throw. They are his third-highest scoring in his NL, behind the last two World Series winners, the Dodgers and the Braves. Batting average is 3rd in the league, on base percentage is 2nd and OPS is 4th. Their pitching staff ranks him second only to the Dodgers’ staff in ERA.
Edwin Diaz was unavailable after being forced into duty in the opening game after the Braves hit three runs in the ninth inning. Scherzer handled it as usual, however, and ended the game by beating the team in the 7th inning.
9 wins, 2 losses, 1.98 ERA. “I’m proud of it.”
On Sunday, deGrom starts at home for the first time since July 7, 2021. Between those teams, he has four more games in Atlanta starting August 15. The Mets are in a great position to finally claim the division title.
Remember that. The top team bids farewell in their first round. Runner-up takes the best-of-three in the first round, presumably against the Padres.
What’s your question?
Aside from the question, what on earth were other teams thinking in the last three years when Showalter was available?
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