The Mets are having one of those seasons where almost everything goes well. There is about one such season per generation.
So after they called up Brett Batty, the first prospect of the year, Brett Batty, a left-handed hitter with a sweet swing and a very high ranking,It's no surprise he hit a home run. His first at-batat the home park of his nemesis the Braves.
"Beautiful swing... there's something here," Keith Hernandez said on his SNY.
The Mets have gone from expensive free-agent forays, including Wednesday night starter and Hall of Famer Max Scherzer, to old friend Buck Showalter as they decide to let go of their best prospect. Rejected. That includes Batty, their second-best prospect and 18th overall in baseball.
But they had little choice when he summoned 22-year-old Batty from Triple-A Syracuse. Both big-league third basemen Eduardo Escobar and Luis Guilume went on the injured reserve for a week of soreness. So out of necessity came Batty, who had dominated the Eastern League at Double-A Binghamton before being called up to Syracuse a week earlier.
22 family and friends from his hometown of Austin, Texas (according to SNY) veteran right-hander Jake from his Odrizzi curve batty turned his ball around and Wright's Just trekked to witness the send up. fence. 2-run homerMets nerve-wracking 9-7 win
Beatty's promotion after a meager Triple-A time came as a surprise, but his bat now surprises no one. The scouts, who went to see Beatty back at Lake Travis High School, a famous Baker Mayfield high school, liked what they saw so much they overlooked his 19.5-year advanced age. The non-discriminatory Mets (see Showalter) drafted him 12th overall in 2019. said a league scout. "I tip the cap to the Mets."
There's a lot of that sort of thing these days. The Mets are going through one of those seasons where their calls are nothing short of prescient to perfect. Although the decision to hire Showalter is now being called "quite easy," there was at least some heated debate, and perhaps even a little bit of disagreement. It would be amazing if I didn't get the best manager award. (Dusty Baker might do the same in other leagues.) Nobody has a perfect record in free agency, but the Mets he won 4-4. It never happens.
One of his free agents, Sterling Marte, hit his first home run off Odridge in his start for the Mets' Big, then hit another. -Star. And Scherzer is no different than he's seen the entire field in the Nationals' other dugouts for most of the past seven seasons.
He is a peerless competitor. This time, he went his 6¹/₃ innings before losing control in the 7th, walking a couple and making a false throw at the beginning, Adam he gave way to Ottavino and recently a Braves pick-up he Robbie Allowing Grossman his three-run homer to pull Atlanta inside. 1. The win was his 199th of Scherzer's career, and with 99 losses, he could become his sixth pitcher to record his 200th win before his 100th loss. (he joins Pedro Martinez, Whitey Ford, Lefty Grove and Juan Marichal). Glover Cleveland Alexander.)
In his first two games in Atlanta, the Mets had a rare hiccups with their schedules. They were ahead of him 18-1 and needed a win on Wednesday for the first time in a while. They've lost three in a row this magical season just twice, surviving Wednesday's scare to add three runs behind.
Mets co-ace Jacob deGrom has a chance to level the series and, incredibly, keeps the Mets' record perfect, not losing a series all year.
Scherzer got immediate help with the Mets' bat. Francisco Lindor easily fulfilled the deal in his second year of the $341 million deal, hitting a home run following Marte's first diner. Batty timed Odrizzi's curve, Mike Jacobs, and Kaz. He joined Matsui, Mike Fitzgerald, and Benny Ayala to become the only Mets to hit a home run in their first at-bat. Butty then took tough left-hander Tyler at 113 mph from Matek and he took a mile away, but Braves shortstop Dansby Swanson turned it into an out.
"He can hit. Smooth swing and occasional pull power," said the National League scout.
"A great-looking extra hit," he added, the AL scout. rice field.
This kid didn't look good when I first saw it. With Escobar expected to return in the not too distant future, this call may just be a cameo. But it should be fun to watch while he's here.