{"id":1372860,"date":"2023-05-28T22:49:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T02:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=1372860"},"modified":"2023-05-28T22:53:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T02:53:34","slug":"coors-field-two-far-from-home-mets-drop-series-to-rockies-on-another-coors-field-special-m1d1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/coors-field-two-far-from-home-mets-drop-series-to-rockies-on-another-coors-field-special-m1d1\/","title":{"rendered":"Coors Field Two: Far From Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday’s looney toon loss to the Rockies<\/a> made barely a blip on my annoyance radar. Sunday’s loss<\/a> was even wackier, but it bothered me.<\/p>\n

I thought the Mets left some outs on the table. The most obvious being the first two runs of the game which never should have scored. Of course, the error by Tylor Megill in the third on a toss from Pete Alonso which Megill just flat out dropped led directly to the two runs, as Megill followed by striking out Jurickson Profar and getting Kris Bryant to pop out. But even after Megill walked Ryan McMahon to put runners on first and second, the Mets still had a chance to get out of the inning.<\/p>\n

The bench (I’m not putting this on Francisco Alvarez) called for an outside pitch against Randal Grichuk, even though they were playing Eduardo Escobar up the middle. Predictably, Grichuk took the outside pitch the other way, harmlessly through the gaping hole in the infield to give the Rockies a 1-0 lead on a grounder that should have ended the inning. Instead, the Rockies scored another run on a single to Harold Castro to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n

But the Mets immediately roared back with six runs in the 4th on a two run double by Tommy Pham, a line drive RBI single by Escobar, and yet another three run homer by Francisco Alvarez, who went from 9th in the lineup all the way to 2nd. This drastic lineup change came after my buddy messaged me to ask when I thought the Mets would move up Alvarez in the order. The best I could come up with was that it might have something to do with Ronny Mauricio came up to the majors along with the change of seasons and the shifting of solar winds. So of course it happens the next day, and it happened with lefty Austin Gomber on the mound which I thought was odd because Alvarez has been hitting much better against righties. But he hit the homer off Gomber which could only mean that I don’t know what the f*ck I’m talking about.<\/p>\n

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THIS KID CAN’T BE STOPPED.<\/p>\n

FRANCISCO \u00c1LVAREZ WITH A 3-RUN HOME RUN. pic.twitter.com\/DryJFizKdu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 SNY (@SNYtv) May 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n