Mets News and Morning Links 5/17/2023

 


Good Morning.  Justin Verlander loses in Mets Citi Field debut, Vientos and Mauricio continue to hit in Syracuse loss, Binghamton wins, Brooklyn and St, Lucie fall.

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Box Score: Tampa Bay Rays 8 Mets 5 Brandon Nimmo CF 0 for 4, 1 K; Francisco Lindor SS 1 for 4, 1 K; Jeff McNeil 2B 2 for 4, 1 run scored; Pete Alonso 1B 1 for 4, HR (14th), 2 runs scored, 2 RBIs; Brett Baty 3B 1 for 3, HR (3rd), 1 RBI, 1 run scored, 1 walk, 1 K; Francisco Alvarez C 0 for 3, 2 Ks; Eduardo Escobar PH 1for 1, HR (4th), 2 RBIs, 1 run scored; Justin Verlander (L,1-2) 5 innings, 6 runs - all earned, 8 hits, 2 HRs, 2 walks, 3 Ks; Dominic Leone; 1 inning, 1 run - earned, 1 hit, 1 HR, 1 K; Josh Walker 1 inning, no runs, no hits, 2 walks; Drew Smith 1 inning, 1 run - earned, 1 hit, 1 walk, 1 K;  Adam Ottavino 1 inning, no runs, no hits, 1 K;

From the Rays 8 Mets 5 - Post Game Notes:

  • Mets: Have lost 10 of their last 12 games to the Rays, including five straight.
  • Justin Verlander: Allowed six earned runs on eight hits in his Mets home debut...The six runs are his most allowed. 
  • Pete Alonso: Slugged a two-run homer in the seventh to tie Max Muncy for the major league lead...Has 32 career home runs in interleague play, the most in the majors since 2019.
  • Brett Baty: Launched solo home run to right center in the fifth inning to put the Mets on the board...The blast ended a five-game, 56-inning homerless streak for the Mets.
  • Eduardo Escobar: Hit a pinch-hit, two run homer in the ninth...Was his second pinch-hit home run of the season (Also May 1 vs. Atlanta)...Had one career pinch-hit home run entering this season...The Mets had one pinch-hit home run as a team last year.




Today's Game:

Rays (32-11) @ Mets (20-23), 7:10 pm

NYM: Kodai Senga (#34, 30, RHP, 4-2, 4.14)
TBR: Josh Fleming (#19, 27, LHP, 0-0, 4.26)


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Born May 17:

Transactions:
New York Mets released Yogi Berra on May 17, 1965.

New York Mets released Raul Gonzalez on May 17, 2004.

New York Mets released Frank Catalanotto on May 17, 2010.

Houston Astros signed Kyle Farnsworth of the New York Mets as a free agent on May 17, 2014. 

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1971

Ralph Garr ties a major league record for the round-trippers in extra innings, going deep in the 10th frame and the 12th with a walk-off homer against the Mets in the Braves' 4-3 victory. The Atlanta left-fielder called the 'Road Runner' by his teammates, is the fourth player to accomplish the feat and the first to do so since 1966, when New York's Art Shamsky went yard in the 10th and 11th in a losing cause for the Reds at Crosley Field.

1973

At Anaheim Stadium, a horrific injury dampens Bobby Valentine's promising major league career when his spikes get caught in the outfield's chain-link fence attempting to catch a home run ball hit by Dick Green. The 23 year-old speedster, who had started the season hitting .400 in April, suffers a multiple compound leg fracture and will miss the rest of the season, eventually finishing his playing days as a utility player with the Padres, Mets, and Mariners.

1979

The Phillies beat the Cubs in a fifty-hit slugfest in the Windy City, 23-22. The 11 home runs hit in the game tie a major league mark, shared by Chicago and their opponents 1967 Reds and 1977 Mets, while playing in the friendly confines of Wrigley Field.

1985

The Rangers fire skipper Doug Rader and replace him with the Mets' third-base coach Bobby Valentine. Before returning to New York in 1996 to manage his former team, 'Bobby V' will compile a 581-605 record (.490) during his eight seasons in Texas.


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2001Mets free agent acquisition Steve Trachsel becomes the first pitcher in franchise history to give up four home runs in an inning, pitching himself out of the starting rotation in the process (one day later, he'll be off the roster altogether, off to Norfolk for a three-week Triple A stint). To be fair, the Met bullpen does not exactly cover itself in glory either, with Rick White and John Franco each contributing 4 runs to San Diego's 15-run total; an uncharacteristically economical Franco accomplishes all this in one third of an inning. The one Met bright spot is the performance turned in by a newcomer assigned mop-up duty in the 9th, super sub Desi Relaford, who moves over from SS to make the only mound appearance of his major league career. Sporting a tailing change-up and a fastball, which at 91 MPH is about 5 MPH faster than anything Trachsel was able to muster, Desi fans the opposing pitcher, then induces two consecutive Padres to fly out to the deepest part of the park.

2009:  In a 2 - 0 win by the Giants over the Mets, New York hurler Mike Pelfrey balks 3 times. It had been 15 years since Al Leiter was the last pitcher to have three balks in a game.

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