{"id":62036,"date":"2020-09-08T04:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bullpen-is-always-the-culprit-behind-mets-heartbreak\/"},"modified":"2020-09-08T04:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T01:58:00","slug":"bullpen-is-always-the-culprit-behind-mets-heartbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bullpen-is-always-the-culprit-behind-mets-heartbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bullpen is always the culprit behind Mets\u2019 heartbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Bullpen is always the culprit behind Mets\u2019 heartbreak<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Bart Giamatti once wrote of baseball, \u201cIt breaks your heart,\u201d and just think, the late commissioner published that 31 Mets bullpens ago.<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s a Mets gut-punch loss, it must be their bullpen.<\/p>\n

OK, to be fair, their 10-inning, 9-8 defeat to the Phillies on Monday afternoon at Citi Field could\u2019ve been far more pedestrian and less exciting, thanks to rookie David Peterson\u2019s awful return to the starting rotation (five runs in two innings); credit goes to the Mets\u2019 fully resurgent offense for fighting back against old pal Zack Wheeler and Joe Girardi\u2019s relief corps as well as journeyman Erasmo Ramirez\u2019s contributing five innings of one-run ball after Peteron\u2019s departure. The Mets found themselves trailing 6-0 to Wheeler, one of Jacob deGrom\u2019s top challengers for the National League Cy Young Award, in the middle of the fifth inning.<\/p>\n

In September, however, pandemic season or non-pandemic season, moral victories are outlawed, all the more so when you currently don\u2019t qualify for the low-bar pandemic playoffs. And after Jeff McNeil\u2019s three-run, seventh-inning homer off David Phelps put the Mets up by a 7-6 count, Jeurys Familia and Miguel Castro teamed to ensure that their club, now 19-23, would settle for a series<\/a> split and fall into 11th place in the NL, a half-game<\/a> behind the Brewers (18-21).<\/p>\n

\u201cNext time, we\u2019re going to close the deal and hopefully get a win,\u201d said McNeil, app<\/a>arently a cockeyed optimist.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s tackle the strategy debate of the day: The one late-inning reliever who pitched well for the Mets was Edwin Diaz, who tossed a perfect top of the ninth, requiring only 12 pitches. Rojas defended not bringing Diaz back out for the 10th, explaining that the right-hander had thrown two innings Thursday in a win over the Yankees \u2014 his first appearance of that length since May 2017 \u2014 and he didn\u2019t want to push the closer physically.<\/p>\n

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Jeurys Familia<\/span>Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe stress level that he\u2019s had on that up-down, it was not recommendable to do it again,\u201d Rojas said, referring to pitching an inning, returning to the dugout and pitching another inning.<\/p>\n

Spare me your macho laments for times past. The prospect of throwing two innings twice in a week after not doing it in more than three years prompted understandable caution from Rojas and the Mets. On top of that, what, now you suddenly find Diaz so reliable? A week ago at Yankee Stadium, you wanted him returned to sender in Seattle.<\/p>\n

Besides, Diaz\u2019s work proved insufficient because right after McNeil\u2019s three-run bomb, Familia entered the game in the eighth and promptly allowed the Phillies to tie it up on a trio of singles. And in the 10th, Castro, whom the Mets acquired from the Orioles last week at the trade deadline, retired Bryce Harper and saw placed runner Rhys Hoskins get trapped in a rundown between third and home on a grounder by J.T. Realmuto (who advanced to second), only to serve up a meatball that Jean Segura crushed 423 feet, clearing the wall in left-center field and drilling the green M&M in the eyes at 109 mph.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhysically, I feel fine. I think my biggest issue has been mechanically,\u201d said Castro, who has a 6.75 ERA in four appearances as a Met. \u201cSince coming here, I feel like my mechanics haven\u2019t been as sharp as they were since before I got traded.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Post conveyed Castro\u2019s self-diagnosis to Rojas, who responded, \u201cMechanically if he\u2019s saying these types of things, we can definitely talk and see where he\u2019s at, look at some old videos of him. The stuff is there. It\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s utterly believable that the Mets\u2019 bullpen (4.12 ERA) easily has outperformed their starting rotation (5.13) despite the presence of deGrom in the latter unit. This Mets bullpen must flex its muscles to propel this group into the tournament.<\/p>\n

Do you believe in them, though? It probably depends on the durability of your heart.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Bullpen is always the culprit behind Mets\u2019 heartbreak” Bart Giamatti once wrote of baseball, \u201cIt breaks your heart,\u201d and just think, the late commissioner published that 31 Mets bullpens ago. If it\u2019s a Mets gut-punch loss, it must be their bullpen. OK, to be fair, their 10-inning, 9-8 defeat to the Phillies on Monday afternoon…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65760],"class_list":["post-62036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bullpen-is-always-the-culprit-behind-mets-heartbreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}