Mets - 000 000 104 - 4 9 0 Nationals - 733 330 06x - 25 26 1
Factoids! From Elias, MLB, and ESPN:
The 25 runs set a new record for the Washington/Montreal franchise.
It was the most-lopsided loss in the Mets' 57-season history, topping the 26-7 pounding the Phillies gave them on June 11, 1985.
The 25 runs are the most by a non-DH team since the Cubs scored 26 against Colorado on August 18, 1995.
The Nationals became the first non-DH team with all nine starters scoring at least two runs since the Yankees did it against the Philadelphia A's on May 24, 1936 (25-2). ... It had also happened three times before that: Cardinals, April 16, 1912; Reds, August 11, 1926; Yankees, July 26, 1931 (G1).
The only team to do it with a DH is the Angels, in a 24-2 win against the Blue Jays on August 25, 1979.
Runs Per Game In July: The Nationals began the day #16 among all teams at 4.8. They ended the day at 5.6, tied for #2!
The Nationals became only the second team in history to score at least 19 runs through five innings while not allowing a run. The first team was the Hartford Dark Blues, who led the New York Mutuals 21-0 on May 13, 1876.
After four innings, Washington led 16-0 and had only three zeroes in the traditional AB-R-H-RBI box score. (Those zeroes all remained in the final box score.)
Turner, SS 4 1 2 0 Rendon, 3B 3 2 2 1 Harper, RF 3 3 2 2 Zimmerman, 1B 4 2 2 3 Soto, LF 4 2 2 0 Murphy, 2B 3 3 3 6 Taylor, CF 3 1 2 0 Wieters, C 2 1 1 1 Roark, P 3 1 1 3The Nationals are the 17th team to score at least 25 runs in a game since 1908. The number of runs allowed by those teams ranged from two to eight ... with the remarkable exception of the August 25, 1922 game in which the Cubs led the Phillies 26-9 after seven innings and ended up winning 26-23.
PHI - 0 3 2 1 3 0 0 8 6 - 23 26 4 CHC - 1 10 0 14 0 1 0 0 x - 26 25 5The Phillies used only two pitchers.
Mets infielder Jose Reyes took the mound in the eighth inning, throwing 48 pitches and allowing six runs. He hit his 10th batter of the inning, Ryan Zimmerman, in the leg with a 54-mph curveball. Zimmerman faked a charge toward the mound, drawing a laugh from Reyes.
The Mets were down 19-1 to the Nationals when shortstop Jose Reyes came in to pitch.— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) August 1, 2018
That didn't go so well either. pic.twitter.com/4gJrMx607e
Reyes said he always wanted to pitch in a game before he retired.
"Before you throw a pitch, it's fun," Reyes said. "But when you start to see people hit homers, you get more serious. Even though I'm not a pitcher, I don't want to see that."[The game] got so out of hand, Mets television announcers Keith Hernandez, Ron Darling and Gary Cohen took turns reading verbatim from the team's media guide in the late innings — the SNY network played the theme from "Masterpiece Theatre" in the background.
And there you have it, the perfect motto for Mets baseball in 2018.
Before you throw a pitch, it's fun.
4 comments:
"Mets infielder Jose Reyes took the mound in the eighth inning, throwing 48 pitches and allowing six runs. He hit his 10th batter of the inning, Ryan Zimmerman, in the leg with a 54-mph curveball."
Do you mean that Zimmerman was the 10th batter that he hit, or that the 10th batter of that inning got hit? (I think I know the answer, but it's amusing as written).
Reyes had a bad inning, but it was not that bad!
In my defense, I compiled that stuff late last night.
Elias: "Last night Washington became the 7th team in @MLB history to score 3+ runs in each of the first five innings of a game, but only the 3rd to do so since 1901."
You can't post that without telling us who the other teams are!!!
April 30, 2017: Washington Nationals 23, New York Mets 5
July 31, 2018: Washington Nationals 25, New York Mets 4
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