Jose Siri homered for the second straight day, but the Mets fell to the Red Sox, 6-4, on Sunday.
Here are the takeaways…
– Paul Blackburn took the mound for the second time this spring, although, his outing on Sunday didn’t go as planned.
After getting the leadoff man to ground out, Blackburn let up a line-drive single to Alex Bregman, walked Triston Casas, and allowed another single to Trevor Story to load the bases. The right-hander surrendered a two-run, ground-rule double to Masataka Yoshida and then a passed ball got by Francisco Alvarez to make it 3-0. Blackburn walked Trayce Thompson and was replaced by Douglas Orellana. Another run would score on a ground out.
Thanks to spring training rules, Blackburn returned to the mound in the second and needed only nine pitches for a 1-2-3 inning. His final line: four earned runs on three hits with two walks over 1.1 IP.
– Brett Baty made an impressive stop and throw for the final out of the first inning. He’s only played third base so far during Grapefruit League games, but has been taking reps at second base as well as some shortstop more recently, helping his chances to make the Opening Day roster following Nick Madrigal‘s injury. Baty went 0-for-3 at the plate with a strikeout.
– After a single on Saturday, Jeff McNeil kept it going with a leadoff double against Walker Buehler in the first inning on Sunday. McNeil stayed hot and hit a line-drive single with one away in the top of the third inning against veteran Liam Hendricks. He grounded out to second base in the fifth inning, ending the day 2-for-3 with a run scored.
– Carlos Mendoza mentioned Siri’s “real” power on Saturday after the outfielder hit his second homer of the spring, and it looks like the manager was spot on. Siri blasted a three-run homer over JetBlue Park’s Green Monster in the third inning to cut into the Boston lead, making it a 4-3 game. He finished the game 1-for-2 with a strikeout and the three RBI.
– LHP Brandon Waddell, who a minor league deal with New York in December and last pitched in the MLB in 2021, entered in the third inning. He let up two runs on three hits with a strikeout and a walk over 2.0 IP. The lefty got out of the fourth inning thanks to some help from Alvarez, who took a couple of hard fouls off his body earlier in the frame, by throwing out Bregman at second trying to stretch his RBI-hit.
– Lefty Génesis Cabrera tossed a scoreless fifth inning with two strikeouts. Grant Hartwig pitched a scoreless seventh inning of relief, allowing just one hit. He did make a throwing error on a pick-off move, but luckily it didn’t come back to hurt him, as he got back-to-back groundouts.
– Yonny Hernández drove in a run in the eighth inning on a ground out to make it 6-4.
Highlights
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The Mets return home to Clover Park and face the Miami Marlins at 6:10 p.m. on SNY.
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