Mets Closer Stunned By 9th Inning Homer, Lose To Reds 5-4
Mets starter Zack Wheeler gave up four runs, seven hits and three walks in six innings, his average fastball velocity down about 4 mph from the 98 mph in his prior start.
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Mets starter Zack Wheeler gave up four runs, seven hits and three walks in six innings, his average fastball velocity down about 4 mph from the 98 mph in his prior start.
New York, on its first three-game losing streak, dropped to .500 for the first time this season at 13-13 following a 9-4 start.
Gary Sánchez hit his first career grand slam in a five-run fifth inning for his first hit since coming off the injured list
DeGrom lost three consecutive starts for the first time since 2016.
Despite having a major league-high 13 players on the injured list, the Yankees have won seven of their last eight games and nine of their last 11.
Tommy La Stella and Kole Calhoun hit two-run home runs in the fifth inning, David Fletcher drove in a career-high five and the Angels beat the Yankees 11-5 Thursday night to avoid a four-game sweep.
New York is still without Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Troy Tulowitzki, all among a revolving dozen players on its injured list. The Yankees shrugged it all off and rallied to win at Angel Stadium for a franchise-record sixth straight time.
Rhys Hoskins homered off reliever Jacob Rhame and taunted him with a slow jog around the bases a night after Rhame buzzed him with two fastballs
Yankees slugger Luke Voit showed last season what an unproven player can gain when injuries create opportunities for playing time.
Wheeler (2-2) became the first player in MLB this season to join the "100-100 club" — hitting his home run over 100 mph and also throwing a 100-mph pitch in the same game, according to Statcast.
Gio Urshela singled home Gleyber Torres in the 14th with his second extra-inning RBI of the night, and the Yankees persevered for their fourth consecutive win, 4-3 over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday.
Chris Flexen (0-1) surrendered six runs and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings in his first major league start since last July 18 against Tampa Bay.
All-Star slugger Aaron Judge hurt his left oblique while taking a swing and likely was headed to the injured list
Alonso homered off Ryan Helsley in the sixth. All seven of Alonso's homers have come off relief pitchers — this was his first longball before the seventh inning.
Sabathia (1-0) gave up an unearned run and three hits over five innings, improving to 15-1 in the regular season following a Yankees loss since 2017.
Despite their manager's comments on the injury, the Mets front office would not confirm that the problem is in the ace pitcher's elbow.
Despite facing a journeyman starter, the Yankees' offense looked nothing like the team that seemed to turn things around against Boston.
Brasier got ahead 0-2 as Gardner took a slider and fouled off another. Brasier left a fastball up that Gardner drove 364 feet over the right-field scoreboard.
Hector Neris blew a 95 mph fastball past Keon Broxton with a 3-2 count and the bases loaded for the final out
The Mets starting staff entered 2019 as the team's strength, but their recent outings have gotten progressively worse.
Something had to give Tuesday night. The Yankees (6-9) and the Red Sox (6-11) couldn't both keep losing as baseball's greatest rivals faced off in the Bronx.
Yankees-Red Sox, the most heated rivalry in baseball, picks up for the 2019 MLB season on Tuesday.
On April 15, 1947, Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball when he took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Mets starter Jason Vargas was worse, lasting just six batters and 36 pitches.
On Saturday, the lefty made his return and looked like a future Hall of Famer in a storybook debut.
