Mets swept out of Atlanta, losing streak now at season-high 6 games
Spencer Strider struck out eight in six innings and the Braves beat the Mets 7-1 on Thursday, extending New York's losing streak to six games.
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Spencer Strider struck out eight in six innings and the Braves beat the Mets 7-1 on Thursday, extending New York's losing streak to six games.
Chris Sale went 8 2/3 innings, just missing his first shutout since 2019, and the Braves handed the Mets their season-high fifth straight loss, 5-0 on Wednesday.
Austin Riley hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly to deep center field in the 10th inning, lifting the Braves to a 5-4 comeback win over the Mets on Tuesday night.
Mets rally, give it all away, and then ride Francisco Lindor homer in the 9th to an 8-7 win over Braves and a playoff spot.
The pitch clock is one of the new rules designed to speed pace of play.
MLB.com rates Álvarez as the No. 1 overall prospect in baseball.
Investigators say 37-year-old Anthony Varvaro of Jersey City, a former Major League Baseball player, was heading east on the Turnpike extension at around 4:30 a.m. when another driver heading the wrong way struck him head-on. Both drivers died. CBS2's Jessica Moore reports.
New York, which stranded the bases loaded in a two-run ninth inning, ended a two-game winning streak and will try Sunday to win the season series with Atlanta for the first time since 2017.
The Mets, assured of their fourth losing record in five years, are 30-49 on the road.
The Yankees remained four games behind first-place Tampa Bay in the AL East.
In a historic matchup between two of baseball's hottest teams, the New York Yankees kept right on rolling.
The Braves won three games in the unusual four-day, five game series to move within four games of the Mets.
The first-place Mets have maintained their five-game lead over the third-place Braves in the NL East by splitting the first four games of the five-game series.
Jeff McNeil and Brandon Drury each hit a two-run homer for the Mets after they trailed 10-1 in the fourth.
The Mets split a doubleheader in which they scored just one run for the third time in franchise history.
The Mets had won eight consecutive starts by deGrom, the major league leader with a 0.95 ERA, but the loss was their fourth in five games and 11th in 17 overall.
The Braves trail the first-place Mets (41-35) by 4 1/2 games in the NL East.
The Mets have occupied first place in the NL East since May 8, but they had dropped nine of 14 and have a three-game lead over surging Washington.
Tylor Megill and Corey Oswalt came up from the minors to provide steady pitching for a New York staff ravaged by recent injuries, and the Mets bounced back from consecutive shutouts to split the four-game series.
Mets starter Marcus Stroman exited in the second inning with a sore left hip, the latest blow to a depleted team decimated by pitching injuries lately.
NL East-leading New York has won four straight despite having 16 players on the injured list, improving to 25-20.
The Mets were denied a sweep of the three-game series.
It was a third-inning single by reliever Tommy Hunter that symbolized how resourceful New York has been in the face of a staggering rash of injuries.
The Yankees lost for the sixth time in seven games due to a star-studded lineup that has almost entirely spaced out.
Gio Urshela hit a tying home run in the fifth inning off Charlie Morton and the Yankees won with five hits, which left their four-game total at 16.
