My 26th favorite Met The Big Zero starts today, hopefully the Mets come back from 11-0 after one inning to win 12-11!
Dominic Smith is batting .296/.360/.564 with 64 runs, 32 doubles, a triple, 23 homers, 73 RBI, 35 walks and a .924 OPS in 149 games since the start of the 2019 season…This includes a .292/.375/.506 slash line against fellow southpaws and a .297/.356/.581 mark against right-handers…..and yet he does not play every day for some reason.
Peter K. Alonso Drove in a pair of runs in the Mets’ game one win in a doubleheader at Coors Field on Apri l17…Is a lifetime .444/.500/1.000 hitter in Colorado. Unfortunately he does not play for the Rockies and the game notes ignore yesterdays not one, not two, not three, not four but FIVE strikeouts. He now has 15 on the season in ten games which is kind of impressive.
In game one yesterday, the Mets struck out 17 of the 26 batters they faced, a 65.4 percentage… It was the highest single-game percentage in Mets history…Yesterday marked the fourth time in franchise history that the Mets struck out 17 or more batters in a game that was 9.0 innings or less…Their franchise record is 19, which has been done twice before: October 6, 1991 at Philadelphia and April 22, 1970 vs. San Diego.
What the above ignores is how little the ball is being put in play which is why baseball is boring.
Nimmo has reached base in 23 straight games dating back to September 11 last season…He is batting .407 (33-81) with 12 runs, five doubles, a triple, two home runs, 10 RBI, 15 walks, a .505 OBP and a 1.073 OPS in that span…It is the second-longest active streak in the majors, behind only Mike Trout’s 32-game streak…whoever Mike Trout is….It is the third-longest streak in Nimmo’s career.
Francisco Lindor is one steal away from 100 for his career…so when Gary Cohen rattles that off you know where he got it form….He is eight doubles away from 200 and 97 hits away from 1,000…Dominic Smith is one double away from 50 for his career…Michael Conforto is six RBI away from 350.
