Mets add hitting help, trade for Detroit’s Cespedes

So Detroit couldn’t have been too comfortable when they got out to a 6-0 lead last night.

Sanchez held the Orioles to two runs over six innings on July 17 in a 7-3 O’s loss in the first game after the all-star break. Farmer served up a two-run home run to Adam Jones in the fifth, his last batter of the night.

RHP Michael Fulmer was traded to the Tigers, along with RHP Luis Cessa, on Friday in the deal that netted the Mets OF Yoenis Cespedes.

Did you notice what was playing on the Mets’ SNY cable network just as the feel-good Yoenis Cespedes trade was being announced? “We welcome the challenge”.

Meanwhile, Cespedes is enjoying his best offensive season, hitting.293/.323/.506 with 18 home runs, 61 RBIs and a 125 OPS+.

3-2 win over the Nationals before a rejuvenated crowd of 42,996 – the second largest for a Mets game in Citi Field history – to move within one game of first-place Washington in the NL East.

The Mets, meanwhile, shipped out seven pitching prospects, two of them in the system’s top six overall prospects, for a quartet of rentals, three of whom are very low-impact acquisitions, in a year in which they gave up their first-round pick to sign Michael Cuddyer, who’s been a replacement-level player this year when healthy. That knocked out the right-hander, and the Orioles scored once more in the inning on an error.

Right fielder Davis added his RBI single off Valdez later in the inning to make it 8-6.

Hansel Robles (3-2) struck out Bryce Harper and Werth in the eighth for the win.

Jeurys Familia, who recorded five outs in Friday’s victory after blowing a save chance the previous day, worked a ideal ninth for his 28th save. But the Cespedes trade especially signals that he’s serious about making a postseason run this season – and gives Mets fans a reason to believe over the final two months of the season.

Duda cut Washington’s lead in half in the fourth with his 19th home run of the season, a deep drive to right center field. “He had a helluva game”.

Sanchez (10-9) allowed a season-high-tying nine hits in 6 2/3 innings.

“The hitting was there, the pitching wasn’t there”, Krol said.

Cespedes batted third and received a polite standing ovation when he came to the plate in the first. “It just so happened the two mistakes he made got hit over the wall”. Seeking to make the playoffs for the first time since 2006, the Mets have a talented starting rotation but rank last in the majors in runs and batting average, and 29th in on-base percentage and slugging.

“That’s exactly what we’re hoping to do, put some guys in the middle of that lineup, where you have bats throughout that can produce some runs”, Mets manager Terry Collins said. He should then go to the club’s complex in Port St. Lucie, Florida, where he will soon begin rehab games. “They didn’t have a tire to fit my back tire, and then I just had to sit in a Target parking lot and wait for the tow truck to come and wait for my ride to arrive”. DeGrom has done a phenomenal job in his new role as ace of the staff, Noah Syndergaard is on his way to a Rookie of the Year caliber 2015 campaign and Matt Harvey is utterly dominant.

Until Duda’s blast, Ross had not allowed a hit, retiring 11 of 12 Mets.

Nick Castellanos hit a two-run home run in the fifth inning, after the Tigers’ leading home run hitter, J.D. Martinez, left the game in the bottom of the third with a left knee contusion.