The pen feels like it could be a larger long-term question mark, and getting this kind of performance from multiple pitchers there is really encouraging. Max Scherzer is back by next Monday, Justin Verlander just a few days after that. New York’s issues in the rotation are arguably temporary. And the usual back-end quartet - Robertson, Ottavino, Smith and a very good Brooks Raley - combined to allow three runs in 16 innings. Denyi Reyes threw 3 1/3 scoreless frames before being sent down. Jimmy Yacabonis and Jeff Brigham weren’t flying on the team charter to Oakland at the start of the trip they combined for 7 2/3 innings of one-run ball in California. Their starters pitched to a 5.62 ERA over the 10 games, averaging fewer than five innings per start.īut the bullpen, Smith’s loss Sunday notwithstanding, saved the staff time and again.
Outside of Joey Lucchesi’s gem on Friday night, the Mets are still hunting for quality starting pitching. That allows you to dream on what this offense can look like when it’s clicking one through nine, which it still hasn’t done in 2023.
The Mets will need to impact the ball in the strike zone, the way Nimmo did on the trip. The Athletics aren’t on the schedule anymore - outside of the World Series, of course - so there, God-willing, won’t be any more 17-walk nights. That’s a tricky balance to find, and it’s one the Mets would benefit from finding as a team. Always a productive big-league hitter, Nimmo has displayed during this stretch the ability to maintain an impeccable eye at the plate while seeking out pitches to do damage on inside the strike zone. He’s provided evidence in the past of his development at the major-league level, be it with his ability to hit left-handed pitching or play a decent and, in 2023, often spectacular center field. Nimmo’s performance might be the most intriguing. 674 slugging percentage a 1.164 OPS will play.Īlonso hit four homers over the 10 games and slashed. Nimmo was as hot as the Mets have ever seen him: Even after his 0-for-4 Sunday, he finished the trip with a.
Instead, the Mets leaned heavily on massive production from their stars. If you’d said a week and a half ago the Mets would win seven games on the trip while averaging better than six runs per game, I’d have expected their lineup to have evened out in its contributions - that the bottom third that had struggled so much early in the season had found more of its level. Brandon Nimmo, Pete Alonso and Jeff McNeil carried the offense The weekend’s disappointing finish to the trip shouldn’t take away from the positive developments that transpired. “We’ll continue to try to spread the load around.” “Certain things you do over the course of a season to keep everybody healthy,” manager Buck Showalter said of using Smith instead of either David Robertson or Adam Ottavino, both of whom were well-rested. On Sunday, those hitters went 2-for-12 and Drew Smith gave up the winning run in the eighth. Over the course of the Mets’ 7-3 stay in the Golden State, they relied on an otherworldly performance from three of their best hitters in Brandon Nimmo, Pete Alonso and Jeff McNeil and a bullpen that was lockdown almost regardless of who was pitching.
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