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The Mets beat the Yankees 6-3 to even the Subway Series at one game apiece. It was a solid group effort, especially from the bullpen, highlighted by Luke Weaver escaping an inherited bases loaded, nobody out jam in the seventh to protect the lead.
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Clay Holmes, who suffered a tibial fracture in Friday’s game, went on the injured list yesterday and reliever Joey Gerber was
called up to take his place on the roster. Holmes will not need surgery and his injury is not expected to be season-ending. However, he’ll be out 6-8 weeks and is unlikely to return before August, which certainly complicates things for the Mets’ pitching outlook moving forward.
Gerber is just with the Mets until they need a starter to fill Holmes’ spot. Anthony DiComo of MLB.com ran down the options the Mets have to replace Holmes in the rotation, including Tobias Myers, who was mentioned as a possibility by Carlos Mendoza during his pregame press conference.
Left-hander Anderson Severino was also briefly with the Mets on the taxi squad yesterday, but ultimately no roster move was made to activate him, as a player who had been feeling ill felt better ahead of last night’s game.
Juan Soto continues to be banged up, but is playing through his various minor ailments for now.
Veteran reliever Luke Jackson opted out of his minor league deal with the Mets yesterday.
Jon Matlack and Jerry Koosman fondly remember 1973 Met Buzz Capra, who passed away this week.
Around the National League East
The Nationals unleashed a 13-3 drubbing on the Orioles, powered by a seven-run seventh inning.
Similarly, the Marlins erupted for a whopping eight runs in the 10th inning to beat the Rays 10-5 in extra innings.
The Phillies blanked the Pirates 6-0 behind another fantastic outing by Cristopher Sánchez, who struck out 13 to maintain MLB’s longest active scoreless streak among pitchers.
Willson Contreras delivered a clutch go-ahead homer in the eighth, as the Braves suffered a dramatic 3-2 loss to the Red Sox that included Aroldis Chapman escaping a bases-loaded jam in the ninth to end the game.
Around Major League Baseball
The Red Sox placed shortstop Trevor Story on the injured list with a sports hernia. The team had been calling it a right groin injury, but Story recently underwent scans that revealed the more serious problem that may keep him sidelined for several weeks.
Tommy Pham, recently let go by the Mets, signed a minor league deal with the Orioles.
Travis Sawchik of MLB.com took a look at an interesting phenomenon: across baseball, as velocity keeps going up, the average gap between pitchers’ minimum fast ball velocity and maximum fastball velocity over the course of the season keeps shrinking. In other words, minimum fastball velocity is going up more than maximum fastball velocity, as pitchers seek to throw max effort at all times for a shorter period of time.
Blue Jays pitcher José Berríos will undergo surgery on Wednesday to repair his fractured elbow and also to address potential loose bodies. Depending on whether there is ligament damage, Berríos could be sidelined for a couple of months or much longer.
Thomas Harrigan of MLB.com runs down a list of players who are surprisingly leading their teams in hitting.
This Date in Mets History
Edgardo Alfonzo, Roberto Alomar, and Mo Vaughn turned a 5-4-3 triple play against the Padres on this date in 2002.
