Did you know Keith Hernandez once played for the Cardinals? It may even come up on the telecast!
Baseball needs to market this Keith Hernandez guy. He is hitting .344 and nobody has heard of him.
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LHP Joey Lucchesi has been recalled from the team’s Alternate Training Site and will start tonight’s game. @mediagoon is NOT on his way to Modell’s as he already owns a Lucchesi jersey from earlier in the season.
LHP Daniel Zamora was optioned to the team’s Alternate Training Site following yesterday’s game.
Lucchesi will make his third start (fourth game) and is 0-1 with a 6.75 ERA (six earned runs/8.0 innings) with two walks and 11 strikeouts even though the Mets Beat said he had a good spring because they have zero concept of how Spring Training works or what Spring Training lineups look like.
Congratulations to The One True Ace…
…Jacob deGrom who was named the National League Pitcher of the Month for April…The two-time Cy Young Award winner made five starts last month and went 2-2 with a 0.51 ERA (two earned runs/35.0 innings) with four walks and 59 strikeouts…He tied Nolan Ryan (1978) for the most strikeouts through a pitcher’s first five appearances of a season (since 1893)…His 0.51 ERA after five starts is the lowest ERA in team history…David Cone held the previous record for lowest ERA through five starts (0.72 ERA in 1988)…DeGrom finished the month with 59 strikeouts and 0.51 ERA…It is the 279th instance since earned runs became official of a pitcher having at least 55 strikeouts in a month and deGrom’s ERA was the lowest of any of them…Courtesy of ESPN Stats & Info…Matt Harvey was the last Met to win the award, doing so in April of 2013
Jacob is totally healthy despite asking for an extra day of rest two starts in a row now. Nothing to be suspicious of really.
Dominic Smith is on a three-game hitting streak…He is batting .385 (5-13) with a run, two doubles and an RBI…Since the start of 2019, Smith has played 160 games and owns a .288/.347/.534 slash line with 66 runs, 35 doubles, a triple, 23 home runs, 75 RBI, 35 walks and an .880 OPS but was not allowed to play on Opening Day for some reason.
Pete Alonso | INF | .259, 5 HR, 16 RBI, 0 SB
Francisco Lindor | INF | .171, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 0 SB
Dominic Smith | INF/OF | .234, 2 HR, 8 RBI, 0 SB
