![]() The Mets will try to avoid what would be an embarrassing sweep when Justin Verlander takes the ball for his debut with the team on Thursday. Haase, who hadn’t homered all season before Wednesday, crushed the Mets by delivering a go-ahead single for two runs off Ottavino in Game 1 after hitting a three-run blast against starter Joey Lucchesi. The pitcher called it a “normal” check by the umpire.Įric Haase and Matt Vierling both homered against Scherzer, who allowed six earned runs on eight hits and one walk over 3 ¹/₃ innings. Scherzer, who returned to using rosin, was checked as he left the field after the second inning. But MLB is enforcing rules that were updated in spring training that consider even the excess use of rosin as a violation. Scherzer maintained when he was suspended he had used only rosin and sweat in aiding his grip of the baseball. “Hopefully I get back in sync with the mechanics and I can start getting through the ball better.” “I am working back from this and trying to navigate through the lineup and not have go,” Scherzer said. He normally averages 93.2 mph with that pitch. Scherzer averaged 92.7 mph with his four-seam fastball. But Scherzer also noted that his velocity was down on this night as he worked to ensure the back discomfort that had bothered him before his previous start wouldn’t become an issue. ![]() His curveball was down 218 rpms and his cutter 222 rpms. According to Statcast, his four-seam fastball was down 107 revolutions per minute compared to his average this season. Scherzer’s spin rates were down, especially with his curveball and cutter. Justin Verlander’s Mets chapter finally ready to begin “Now we can get going again and increase the pitch count and get back in the flow of things.” 1 thing is getting through this start back healthy, good, checkmark,” Scherzer said. I feel like that’s where some of the mistakes were where I got beat.”īut Scherzer, who threw 75 pitches, said he wasn’t concerned about the outcome as much as his physical state. That is kind of symptomatic of when you have a long layoff, that is kind of one of the first things to go, pitching out of the stretch. “I was kind of spraying the ball in the first and I didn’t pitch well out of the stretch. “I just didn’t do a good job of locating,” Scherzer said. His ensuing suspension served, he returned to the scene of some of his great moments - the right-hander rose to prominence during his five seasons with the Tigers - and got jumped almost from the start. Max Scherzer struggled in his return from a 10-game suspension. Scherzer had last pitched on April 19 at Dodger Stadium, where he was ejected for violating MLB’s rules on foreign substances. It’s hardly the start the Mets needed to this 13-game stretch against underwhelming teams.īut lately the Mets, with eight losses in 10 games, have fallen into that same category. The Mets lost the first game 6-5 after Adam Ottavino flushed an eighth-inning lead. In his return from a 10-game suspension, Scherzer failed to complete even four innings and got battered for six runs by an anemic lineup (which entered the day last in MLB in scoring) in the Mets’ 8-1 loss to the Tigers in the nightcap of a doubleheader at Comerica Park. Or was Wednesday night just a case of a rusty pitcher who had barely received work over the last three weeks? The questions can perhaps begin on whether Scherzer, the Mets co-ace, will be the same again now that he’s been busted by the rosin police. Mets star drops F-bomb in on-field interview after emotional homerĭETROIT - Max Scherzer’s session throwing batting practice to the Tigers punctuated a disastrous day for the Mets. Mets’ influx of young power bats may be just what they need for turnaround Top Mets prospect belts big homer after call-up from minors Mets likely to face Gary Sanchez decision in couple of days
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