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The Braves have a lot of fundamental numbers backing up their start. Mets look like they’re proving to be not for real. I am guessing it’s going to be the braves that end up fighting us for the nl east alll year.
deGrom left the Braves-Mets game with a hyperextended right elbow.
Looks like deGrom is okay and will make his next start.
The Mets kind of suck now.
Mets Class A Catcher Walter Rasquin received a 50-game suspension after testing positive for methamphetamine.Meth?!!?
I'm more worried about the Phillies than Braves and Mets. Phillies seem like the more competent organization.
Mods: This used to be a thread in years past where we would discuss the rest of the division as we knew we would run away with it. I would propose that we edit the title of the thread to: The 2018 NL East Division Race.
For much of Thursday’s game between the Mets and the Atlanta Braves, there was little doubt as to who would win. With the Braves leading 11-0, the remaining question was, would this be merely a bad loss? Or a historically humiliating one?Asdrubal Cabrera lifted the Mets out of humiliation territory when he lined Julio Teheran’s hanging curveball, one of the few mistakes the Braves starter made all day, into the right-field corner for a double, breaking up a no-hitter with two outs in the seventh inning.There would be no history on this day, but plenty of ignominy.The Mets were spared being no-hit, but there was still the ugliness of being swept at home by a divisional rival, of yet another dispiriting outing by starting pitcher Jason Vargas, and of Matt Harvey’s continuing struggles since he moved from the starting rotation to the bullpen. Over the last two games of this series, the Mets were outscored 18-0 by the Braves.It was the kind of game that entirely wiped out what had been a positive pregame vibe, after a magnetic resonance imaging exam revealed no structural damage in the pitching elbow of Jacob deGrom, who had left after four innings of Wednesday’s 7-0 loss.Making his second start since missing virtually all of April with a broken right (non-throwing) hand, Vargas — who allowed nine earned runs in less than four innings in his season debut on April 28 — was pummeled again, allowing six runs in four and two-thirds innings and surrendering three home runs.
It was the Mets’ 10th loss in their last 15 games, a stretch that began when they lost two of three at home to another divisional rival, the Washington Nationals, in mid-April. The Mets began that series with Washington at 12-2 with a three-game lead atop the National League East, and on Thursday they were 17-12 and two games behind the Braves.
Vargas has now allowed five home runs in his first eight and one-third innings this season, and his E.R.A. stands at 16.20.Callaway pointed to the second, third and fourth innings, in which Vargas held the Braves scoreless on four hits, as signs of progress.
Callaway also saw signs of improvement in Harvey, although in four appearances since being relegated to the bullpen, Harvey has allowed seven earned runs in six innings.“I’m still struggling with it, obviously,” Harvey said of his new role. “I’m still trying to figure out the workout schedules and the throwing programs and all that stuff to get ready. I think my first full inning of work was very positive for me and I’ll just try to build from that.”Said Callaway: “It’s just a little blip in the road. He’s got a ways to go but one thing we can’t ever do is give up on anybody. We got make sure we do the best we can with Matt Harvey.”
I was just looking at that. WTF?
Matt Harvey DFA'd after refusing Minor League assignment
I bet he’s glad he sacrificed his arm for the Mets, sure it make cost him $100 million plus, but glory never fades, right
Oh come on he's had plenty of time to recover from that, maybe he just kind of sucks now?
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