{"id":667640,"date":"2017-05-11T00:44:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T04:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=667640"},"modified":"2017-05-11T00:44:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T04:44:31","slug":"embarrassed-in-front-of-buster-posey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/embarrassed-in-front-of-buster-posey\/","title":{"rendered":"Embarrassed … In Front Of Buster Posey"},"content":{"rendered":"
Cannonball Run is a movie that hasn’t had a reboot in a while. But the Mets proved today that it could be done. On Wednesday afternoon at Citi Field, we had “Cannonball Run Out Of Town”. Starring Wilmer Flores as Captain Chaos. Jeurys Familia as Buford T. Justice, and Tommy Milone … I guess as Terry Bradshaw wondering if there was enough ice for all the beer he’ll have to drink to drown his sorrows at the fact that he’s already had his first win as a Met snatched away by Familia (if Pedro Martinez had to deal with it so do you, Tommy. Sorry.) Milone got his job done in his Mets debut, going five innings while giving up two runs and striking out five. He also drove in the third run with a base hit while basically sending Adam Wilk off to Minnesota<\/a> on waivers.\u00a0He gave up a home run to Buster Posey, but who hasn’t these days?<\/p>\n The Mets could have put the game away in the sixth, but with the bases loaded and one out after a sweet bunt single by Juan Lagares, Asdrubal Cabrera and Jose Reyes struck out to end the inning. The Mets lead the league in batting average with runners in scoring position. Wednesday proved what a random stat that is. (That and the fact that the Mets were dead last in 2016 in that stat.)<\/p>\n The Mets unloaded their bullpen to get to the ninth inning. Fernando Salas, Josh Edgin, Hansel Robles, Addison Reed, and Jerry Blevins all pitched in the three innings between Milone and Familia. While their pitch totals weren’t incredibly high for the most part (two for Edgin, six for Robles, five for Blevins, for example), remember that these guys have to warm up, and in some cases these pitchers go up and down and up and down all season. Only two, six, five pitches get recorded in boxscores. Mixing and matching will most likely kill this team in July and August.<\/p>\n