New York Mets Continue Dominance On Opening Day vs Atlanta Braves

Syndergaard was economical with his pitch count, his command was pinpoint and he got strikeouts when he sorely needed them. Lucas Duda followed with a bases-clearing double.

The Braves and Mets engaged in fierce NL East races in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as well as a classic six-game NL Championship Series in 1999. Ender Inciarte fired a great throw home and Flores was called out.

Had Flowers been in front of the plate Flores would have been out. Syndergaard probably would have factored into the decision has he not been forced from the game. Cespedes drew a walk to load the bases, and Brian Snitker went to the bullpen again.

So, at least through one game, Duda’s 2017 luck already seems to have taken a turn for the better. Rivera singled to ignite a six-run, 11-batter spree in which Bruce’s third walk made it 3-0.

According to an official statement released by the club on Monday afternoon, New York Mets’ Opening Day starter Noah Syndergaard exited against the Atlanta Braves due to a blister on his right hand. Sabermetric stats love Syndergaard – he led all pitchers with a 2.29 FIP previous year and tied Clayton Kershaw for the Major League Baseball lead with 6.5 WAR.

During his post-game press conference Terry Collins noted that Syndergaard would have started the seventh inning had the blister issue not developed, but downplayed the concern over the blister itself. “That’s what (Syndergaard) does”.

Making his first opening-day start for Texas, Yu Darvish had a 5-1 lead behind Rougned Odor, who homered twice and drove in four runs in his first two at-bats since a new contract last week that the Rangers sealed with two horses.

“It was awesome”, the 24-year-old Syndergaard said after his first career opening day start.

Reyes is ready to fill in at third base – the last Mets player besides Wright to start a season opener at the hot corner was Ty Wigginton in 2004.

The Braves are throwing Julio Teheran, who is better than last season’s 7-10 record would indicate.

The Mets are hosting the Atlanta Braves at 1:10 p.m.at Citi Field. He pitched a one-hit shutout June 19 at Citi Field, facing only 28 batters (one over the minimum), and pitched eight scoreless innings against them six days later in Atlanta.

“I like school just fine but this is pretty cool”, said Travis, who is expected to make a speedy recovery. “There’s no reason to make adjustments”. We’ll kind of see where it goes.

But though Syndergaard showed few signs of slowing down, he left the game after the sixth inning with the score tied, 0-0. Some teams will offer streams but if the game is not sold out thy may also decide to blackout said game. “I threw all my pitches and everything was working”. “I think getting off to a good start will be very, very important for us”.