Mets ace Noah Syndergaard exits in 2nd inning with injury

WASHINGTON (AP) – Nationals third baseman Anthony Rendon said he’d never had a day like this one. Keuchel (5-0) struck out nine while allowing one run and three hits.

Rendon’s 10 RBIs on Sunday were the most in a single game since 2007 when Garret Anderson of the Los Angeles Angels did the same. It still counts! My friend Jim Baker keeps track of the greatest single-game performances in history, assigning one point for every total base, run scored, RBI, walk and stolen base, a similar system used by some fantasy leagues. Power pitching ace Noah Syndergaard is on the mound Sunday facing the Nats’ Joe Ross (who?). It was Conforto’s second multihomer game in the majors – as a rookie, he did it in Game 4 of the 2015 World Series against Kansas City. Murphy followed with a single before Rendon swatted a three-run home run off Gilmartin.

The question is, what did Darling mean when he said, “Luckily I wasn’t there?”.

Poor, Poor Mets fans. With one game, he had a pretty good month. The info I have today, I’ll provide. We can’t afford to have him miss one start in April. Washington scored 14 against the Cardinals on April 10, 14 against the Braves on April 19, 15 against the Rockies on last Tuesday, and 16 against the Rockies last Thursday. It’s unfair to use this as more fodder to critique the bombshell trade that brought Eaton to Washington, because, to the best of our knowledge, the White Sox did not disclose that Eaton would injure himself running to first in the 24 game of the season (and Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez, remember, are far from sure things). They allowed 26 against the Phillies on June 11, 1985. Rendon hit second for much of 2014, and he finished fifth in the MVP voting.

Syndergaard hit 100 miles per hour on the Nationals Park scoreboard in the first inning but gave up several hard-hit balls.

According to an analysis of the treatment of lat injuries in The American Journal of Orthopedics for those who chose “conservative treatment”, the averaged “return to pitching was 99.8 days” with surgically treated injuries at 140 days. He’s tied for the Major League Baseball lead in home runs and his OBP is sixth.

A bad start to the regular season just got worse for the New York Mets.

And, with Plawecki having already given up home runs to Bryce Harper and Adam Lind in the eighth, Rendon rounded off the scoring with a solo shot in the eighth. He passed Larry Walker, who scored 29 in March/April of 1997. “Well, he was on base enough”. Only Zimmerman and Freddie Freeman have a higher OPS.

Michael Conforto hit two home runs and slumping Jose Reyes also connected, leading the Mets over the Washington Nationals 5-3 Saturday.

But baseball is a zero-sum game and the Mets’ loss could be the Rockies’ gain.

And the star of Washington’s hit and power parade? They are second in home runs (45). He set a Montreal/Washington franchise record for RBIs in a game.

“We knew [Cespedes] was susceptible to this”, Alderson said.

Chisenhall’s big day came before all these fancy Statcast do-dads that confuse half-assed TV analysts were made public, way back on June 9, 2014.

Seventy-seven runs in seven days.