{"id":54002,"date":"2020-08-26T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mets-blanked-twice-in-sweep-in-return-from-coronavirus-hiatus\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T07:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T04:25:00","slug":"mets-blanked-twice-in-sweep-in-return-from-coronavirus-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mets-blanked-twice-in-sweep-in-return-from-coronavirus-hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mets blanked twice in sweep in return from coronavirus hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mets blanked twice in sweep in return from coronavirus hiatus<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 26, 2020 |<\/span> 12:25am <\/p>\n

\n After spending the weekend cooped up inside their homes following a player and coach testing positive for COVID-19 last Thursday, the Mets resumed their season Tuesday.<\/p>\n

They were quickly reminded of frustrations that don\u2019t exist in quarantine: rain delays, runners left in scoring position and all-around sloppy play.<\/p>\n

What was a problem before the Mets\u2019 layoff remained a problem after the layoff, as they struggled to hit in timely spots in both game<\/a>s of a doubleheader and got swept by the Marlins at Citi Field.<\/p>\n

Seth Lugo was impressive in the nightcap, throwing three perfect innings with five strikeouts in his first start in two years as he began to break into the rotation. But things unraveled after he left, with the Marlins pouncing and the Mets remaining stagnant as they went on to lose Game 2, 3-0.<\/p>\n

Rick Porcello gave up four runs in a three-inning start that was cut short by the rain in Game 1, a 4-0 loss for the Mets. <\/p>\n

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Marlins\u2019 Jon Berti steals home in the sixth inning of the Mets\u2019 3-0 Game 2 loss.<\/span>N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the two games combined, the Mets left 19 men on base and went 0-for-15 with runners in scoring position. They had at least one base runner in 13 of the 14 total innings, but failed to do anything with the traffic.<\/p>\n

\u201cNoticeable again,\u201d Luis Rojas said after Game 1. \u201cTonight, once again, we just got away from our app<\/a>roach every time we had runners in scoring position. We keep reinforcing it, keep repeating it to the team that we gotta stay within our approach when that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even when they did have good at-bats with runners on, they still came up empty. Their frustrations hit a peak in the sixth inning of Game 2, when they put runners on first and second with one out and Luis Guillorme lined into an inning-ending double play.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, in the bottom half of the inning \u2014 the Marlins were the home team because the game was a makeup of last Thursday\u2019s postponement in Miami \u2014 Jon Berti stole three bases to take a 3-0 lead. With Jeurys Familia pitching and Ali Sanchez catching, Berti stole second, stole third and then stole home on delay, even after stumbling and hitting all fours with about 30 feet to go.<\/p>\n

The Mets (12-16) had won three straight games before getting shut down because of their two COVID-19 cases last week in Miami. They had also gotten hot at the plate \u2014 after struggling to hit with runners in scoring position for most of the season \u2014 making the unwanted layoff all the more frustrating.<\/p>\n

The Marlins (14-11), who experienced a full-blown COVID-19 outbreak at the end of July that reached 18 players and two coaches, have since rebounded and are ahead of the Mets for second place in the NL East.<\/p>\n

In Game 2, the Marlins took the lead as soon as Lugo left the game after 39 pitches. Jared Hughes walked the leadoff batter in the bottom of the fourth and one out later, after a single by Corey Dickerson, Brian Anderson ripped a two-run double to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n

Anderson had given the Mets trouble in Game 1, too. He hit a pair of doubles off Porcello, one of them sparking a three-run rally in the second inning and the other leading to a run in the third. Porcello also hit a batter in the second inning, which helped open the door to the Marlins\u2019 rally.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like I feel like I\u2019m a mile away from consistently pitching good ball games,\u201d said Porcello, who didn\u2019t return after the 65-minute rain delay and now owns a 6.43 ERA through six starts. \u201cIt\u2019s just been a couple things here and there and for whatever reason, it\u2019s been lingering around up to this point. Keep working and keep getting after it. For me, that\u2019s the only way I know how to do it.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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