Marcus Stroman Still Throwing Filth, The Mets Offense Is Banging Zilch

Marcus Stroman Still Throwing Filth, The Mets Offense Is Banging Zilch

by | May 1, 2021 | THE THREE SPOT

Marcus Stroman continued his exceptional pitching on Friday night, but his golden arm was offset by an anemic Mets offense that had gone 20 straight innings without scoring a run before pushing one across the plate in the 6th inning to add some drama to what was an otherwise lifeless game against a decimated Phillies team 

 

 

Stroman was pulled after throwing just 64 pitches and trailing 2-1. In addition to his lit pitching, Stroman tried his best to boost a sagging Mets offense by delivering one of the Mets’ three hits for the game, a double down the line. 

 

 

The Mets eventually scored in the sixth inning and Stroman was pulled from the game with a line of 5 innings, 3 hits, 0 earned runs and eight K’s. It was another ace-type outing from Stroman who lowered his ERA to 1.86 

 

 

Look at that filth Stroman was dealing on Friday night. He had dudes looking confused, like when your Grandad tries to decipher Kodak Black lyrics.

Stroman came into the year basically guaranteeing one of the best seasons of his career and he hasn’t disappointed. The diminutive diamond-miner has been in Ebenezer Scrooge on the mound. Friday was no different, as the Long Island product was bringing the Phillies the ruckus, which is why SNY analyst Ron Darling was baffled when Mets manager Luis Rojas took Stro out of the game. 

Ron Darling immediately assumed something was wrong because Stroman was rolling and
“unless he was hurt it wouldn’t make sense to take him out, especially as well as he pitched,” Darling said. He had electric stuff.”

 

Darling was spot on, but either way, Stroman gets another hard-luck loss. Let’s hope he bounces back from this quickly.

Ross Outshines Stroman As Bros Duel On The Mound in Queens

Ross Outshines Stroman As Bros Duel On The Mound in Queens

by | Apr 25, 2021 | THE LEAD OFF

Five MLB bros were on blast Saturday afternoon when the Washington Nationals and New York Mets went toe-to-toe again at CitiBank Field in Queens.

In the second game of a massive early season, three-game series, Joe Ross met Marcus Stroman on the hill while the Nats put the entire right side of the infield in the hands of Black Knights, Josh Bell and Josh Harrison.

Ross Was Boss

Ross followed his worst start of the season against the Phillies with arguably his best.

Manager Dave Martinez pulled him after 91 pitches and an easy 6 innings of work as DC smashed New York 7-1.  The understated righty found the location that was missing in St. Louis earlier last week and put the Mets bats on ice.

It was the perfect rebound performance for Washington after Ross gave up 10 runs in 4 1/3 innings last Monday versus the Cardinals.

This was a solid all-around performance by Ross who also did his thing at the plate with an RBI single in the second inning.

 

That was an early blow, giving them a 2-0 lead and forcing New York into a standing eight count. His only mistake was a solo HR to Michael Conforto in the fourth. Otherwise Ross was in shutdown mode all afternoon.

Harrison and Bell ignited the Washington offense and they went for the kill early and delivered.

Harrison walked in the first and scored as Starlin Castro drove him in for a first inning lead on a day where he finished 1-for-5 at the plate.

Bell later scored when Castro lined a shot to centerfield and the floodgates were officially open, officially sinking the Mets.

 

Stro Had No Flow

There wasn’t too much for Stroman to smile about after losing the fight with his location and the Nationals took advantage.  They clipped him for a run in the first inning and it was downhill from there for the Mets starter, who was due for a rocky start after being lights out this season for the Mets. Entering Saturday’s start Stro Bro was 3-0 with a 0.90 ERA.

Nationals manager had Stroman’s number and stacked the lineup with lefties.

 

 

It was the most unfortunate time for Stroman considering this was the Saturday afternoon game of the week and the national TV audience caught his worst start of the year.  The durag was tight but his game wasn’t as he lasted just 4 innings trailing 5-0 after yielding 8 hits and 5 runs.