{"id":445049,"date":"2022-05-11T06:59:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T03:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mets-developing-consistent-winning-formula\/"},"modified":"2022-05-11T06:59:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T03:59:37","slug":"mets-developing-consistent-winning-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mets-developing-consistent-winning-formula\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mets developing consistent winning formula"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d8e557403d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d8e557403d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mets-developing-consistent-winning-formula\/#%E2%80%9CMets_developing_consistent_winning_formula%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Mets developing consistent winning formula&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CMets_developing_consistent_winning_formula%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Mets developing consistent winning formula&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/mike-vaccaro.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Mike Vaccaro\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/mike-vaccaro.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/mike-vaccaro.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>There have been exceptions to this rule, of course, something we were reminded of last Thursday night in Philadelphia. Good teams beat you in a variety of ways across 162 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s. Sometimes they come back on you. Sometimes they crush you. There is no one formula to follow.<\/p>\n<p>But if you were to try and craft a quintessential win for these 21-10 Mets across the first month of the season, it would look something like this:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Excellent starting pitching.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u200aA lineup that doesn\u2019t always score runs in bunches \u2014 or score them early \u2014 but figures out ways to reach the scoreboard as the game wears on.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200a At least one well-executed, smart play.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200a Edwin Diaz closing things out with a low-drama save.<\/p>\n<p>In other words: a game that looks almost exactly like the 4-2 beating the Mets laid on the Washington Nationals Tuesday night in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great to have players who embrace the game with that skill set,\u201d Mets manager Buck Showalter said after watching Carlos Carrasco pitch another superb 6\u2009\u00b2\/\u2083 innings before enjoying a perfect night from his bullpen. \u201cLots of people contributed tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Eduardo-Escobar-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Eduardo Escobar dives safely into home, scoring on a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning of the Mets' 4-2 win over the Nationals.\" class=\"wp-image-22219029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Eduardo-Escobar-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Eduardo-Escobar-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Eduardo-Escobar-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Eduardo-Escobar-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Eduardo Escobar dives safely into home, scoring on a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning of the Mets\u2019 4-2 win over the Nationals.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Carrasco, to date, is the Mets\u2019 feel-good story of the season. A relentlessly pleasant man, he suffered through a grisly year in 2021, hamstring and bone-chip issues rendering him all but un-pitchable by late summer. Now, despite a blip a few weeks ago in St. Louis, he is every bit as reliable as the rotation\u2019s boldfaced names.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, for much of the night, it looked like Cookie\u2019s fine night might go to waste. Patrick Corbin and his 6.06 ERA shut the Mets down for five innings, a stretch that looked (a little too uncomfortably) like a 2021 Mets game, one scoring opportunity wasted after another.<\/p>\n<p>But in the sixth, the Mets put together exactly the kind of opportunistic three-run rally they\u2019re beginning to trademark: singles by their 4-5 hitters, Pete Alonso and J.D. Davis; a walk; and then Jeff McNeil\u2019s rocket ground ball to first that slithered under Josh Bell\u2019s glove. If the ball is hit maybe 5 mph softer Bell turns it into a rally-killing 3-6-3. Instead the game was tied.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Edwin-Diaz.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Edwin Diaz closed out the Mets' win over the Nationals and picked up his seventh save.\" class=\"wp-image-22219020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Edwin-Diaz.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Edwin-Diaz.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Edwin-Diaz.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Edwin-Diaz.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Edwin Diaz closed out the Mets\u2019 win over the Nationals and picked up his seventh save.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI was trying to get something over the center of the plate, not trying to get too big,\u201d McNeil said. \u201cAnd [Carl Edwards Jr., the Nats pitcher] threw something for me to handle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the Mets also have made a habit so far this year of doubling down on opponents\u2019 mistakes by making heady plays of their own. And so Maikel Franco\u2019s ice-breaking RBI double wound up also as an 8-4-2 double play, nailing Yadiel Hernandez at the plate. James McCann also threw out the still-speedy Dee Strange-Gordon on a steal attempt to end the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>And Diaz made quick work of the Nats in the ninth, inducing a 4-6-3 double play from Hernandez to end the game. Once he can enter a ninth inning without Mets\u2019 fans hearts skipping a beat out of fear and loathing, we\u2019ll know things are officially in a different plane of existence for the Mets. But he\u2019s getting there.<\/p>\n<p>It was a textbook Mets game out of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Nationals (now 10-21) are an awful team, and will be the team this year that the other four hopefuls in the NL East will try to feast on as often as possible. But the Mets are 4-1 so far in five games (all played in D.C.). That is also not unusual. The Mets, who for years have had their professionalism and seriousness questioned, are a serious, all-business team. It shows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way we\u2019re doing everything before the game, we have a plan before the game, that\u2019s what we\u2019ve been doing,\u201d Carrasco said. \u201cIf something changes during the game we go back and change it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=NYPH9164212212&amp;light=true\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He was being specific to the pitchers. But it <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lies all around the clubhouse. The Mets are the team who has a plan every night. The Mets are the team that seizes games, and doesn\u2019t let them seize them. Thirty-one games is still only 31 games. But the Mets are the better prepared team every night now. The Mets are the resilient team.<\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s really the textbook version of the 2022 Mets?<\/p>\n<p>Order a crate of those textbooks.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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