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Mets News and Morning Links - 5/5/2023

 


Good Morning.  Happy Birthday Juan Acevedo. Mets lose 2-0 in Justin Verlander's debut, St. Lucie wins big, Blade Tidwell K's 10 in Brooklyn loss and Syracuse and Binghamton fall.

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Box Score: Detroit Tigers 2 Mets 0 Brandon Nimmo CF 1 for 4, 1 K, 1 caught stealing in 9th; Starling Marte RF 1 for 4, 1 K; Francisco Lindor SS 0 for 3, 2 Ks; Pete Alonso 1B 0 for 3, 2 Ks; Tommy Pham DH 1 for 3, 2 Ks; Francisco Alvarez C 0 for 2; Justin Verlander (L,0-1) 5 innings, 2 R, 2 ER, 5 hits, 2 HRs, 1 walk, 5 Ks; Jeff Brigham 1 inning, no runs, no hits, 1 K; Dominic Leone 1 inning, no runs, no hits, 1 K; Drew Smith 1 inning, no runs, no hits, 1 K;






Tim Healey Newsday: Justin Verlander makes Mets debut, but that doesn't prevent sweep by Tigers. "Verlander’s conspicuous opening featured first-inning home runs on back-to-back swings from Riley Greene and Javier Baez, staking the Tigers to a quick two-run lead that lasted the rest of the game. Baez hit two in two days against his former team; he had zero before that...Settling down from there, Verlander scattered three more hits and a walk, totaling 79 pitches." 

Mike Puma NY Post: "The Mets, who lost for the ninth time in 11 games, were shut out for the sixth time this season. Nimmo delivered the Mets’ third hit of the day, a single against Tigers closer Alex Lange with one out in the ninth. With Starling Marte at the plate, Nimmo bolted for second and was thrown out by Jake Rogers, removing the tying run possibility. Moments later Marte struck out to end the game."

Brian Joura Mets 360: "Another dismal day for the offense had the Mets getting shut out, 2-0, by the Tigers Thursday afternoon in Detroit. The loss meant they got swept by a second division club. It also dropped the club’s record to 16-16 on the season. It seems a lifetime ago when they were 14-7."

Metstradamus: "16-16 during a period where they were down to their 6th through 9th starters, and through multiple rainouts leading to doubleheaders and a tough (and unnecessary) travel schedule, isn’t that bad."

Mike Vaccaro NY Post: Mets have some troubling realities to acknowledge after Tigers sweep.  "The Mets are scuffling. They are taking a slew of terrible at-bats, and heading into Thursday they’d suffered from the worst starting pitching through 31 games since … the ’62 Mets. It’s kind of a bad thing when you can’t hit and you can’t pitch, and there isn’t a single favorable thing that can happen when you start measuring yourself up against the ’62 Mets."

Today's Game:

Rockies (12-20) @ Mets (16-16), 7:10 pm

NYM: Kodai Senga (#34, 30, RHP, 3-1, 4.15)
COL: Antonio Senzatela (#49, 28, RHP, 0-0, )

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New York Mets signed free agent Eric Gunderson on May 5, 1994.

New York Mets signed free agent Juan Lagares on May 5, 2006.

New York Mets released Ben Johnson on May 5, 2008.

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1965

In a match-up of eventual Hall of Famers at Shea Stadium, Phillies' right-hander Jim Bunning beats the Mets, 1-0, for his sixth straight complete-game victory over the New Yorkers. The Philadelphia starter provides the game's lone run with a sixth-inning lead-off solo homer run off southpaw Warren Spahn, who also goes the distance, giving up just four hits.

1995

Thirty-three years after Don Zimmer played third base in the franchise's first game, Edgardo Alfonzo becomes the 100th player in Mets history to cover the 'hot corner'. Howard Johnson played the most games at the position, appearing in 835 games over a span of eight seasons.

2004

Mets backstop Mike Piazza passes Carlton Fisk for most home runs hit by a catcher when he hits his 352nd round-tripper as a catcher. The Norristown, PA native's 405-foot opposite-field historic homer comes off a Jerome Williams' 3-1 fastball during the first inning of the Mets' 8-2 victory at Shea Stadium.


2008

In the 4,000th game played at Dodger Stadium, Joe Torre's Dodgers beat the Mets, 5-1. The Los Angeles skipper also managed in the 1,000th game at the Astrodome (Mets - 1977) and Coors Field (Yankees - 2007), the 2,000th at Busch Stadium (Cardinals - 1991), the 3,000th at Angel Stadium (Yankees - 2003), and the 6,000th at Yankee Stadium (Yankees -2001).

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2012 - Two-time Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana wins his first game since undergoing shoulder surgery towards the end of the 2010 season, defeating the Diamondbacks, 4 - 3. Santana had pitched well for the Mets in his previous 5 starts this season, but the team failed to score in his first four outings, then his bullpen blew a 4 - 0 lead in the 8th inning in his fifth start.

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