{"id":1288346,"date":"2022-08-01T23:08:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T03:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=1288346"},"modified":"2022-08-01T23:08:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T03:08:36","slug":"residue-of-the-revenge-mets-crush-nationals-m1d1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/residue-of-the-revenge-mets-crush-nationals-m1d1\/","title":{"rendered":"Residue Of The Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

The game started out with rare vapor locks<\/a> by the Mets defensively. Of course they came after I praised them yesterday for keeping their heads in the game with a 6-0 lead, so way to make me look good, there. But no matter, because the Mets are the Mets and the Nationals are trying to figure out how much of their team will be left tomorrow. So the Mets raced out to a 4-1 lead on RBI singles by Jeff McNeil and Tomas Nido in the second, and a dinger by Pete Alonso in the third.<\/p>\n

Max Scherzer was battling himself a little bit tonight. He gave up a home run to Juan Soto to make it 4-2 in the bottom of the 4th, and then he gave up singles to Yadiel Hernandez and Nelson Cruz which preceded an RBI single by Luis Garcia to make it 4-3. The Soto HR and the singles by Hernandez and Cruz were of the same ilk: Nido setting up on the edge, but Scherzer’s pitches on the hits all drifted towards the middle. The single by Garcia? I can’t explain it. It was a waste pitch up and away and Garcia probably shouldn’t have hit it, and hitting coaches would probably have told him not to try. But Scherzer battled through his iffy stuff to gut through 6 and 2\/3’s, which in my mind is every bit as impressive as electrifying the Yankees (which is different from electrocuting the Yankees, which I hear might be illegal.)<\/p>\n

But the Mets put the game away in the 6th. With two outs and nobody on base, Brandon Nimmo smacked a long double to the opposite field gap off Steve Cishek. Then, Cishek hit Starling Marte with a pitch to put two runners on for Francisco Lindor.\u00a0 Notable? Well, remember this?<\/p>\n

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Steve Cishek throws a dangerous pitch to Lindor, a day after Pete Alonso was hit in the face, and we have the first benches clearing incident of 2022 pic.twitter.com\/YLXplPB7GD<\/a><\/p>\n

— Baseball Fight Club (@mlb_fights) April 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n