David Peterson gives up grand slam to sink Mets against Padres
It was not so long since David Peterson looked like an ace. The pitching staff work horse, Peterson could be counted every 5 to 6 days when the rest of the rotation collapsed around him this season.
Now he struck a crisis, and that could not happen at a worst time.
The left-hander abandoned a big slam to Manny Machado in a 7-4 defeat against the Padres of San Diego on Wednesday evening at the Citi Field.
The series is even 1-1, with the right-hander Jonah Tong seeking to ensure the victory of the series for the food (78-74) Thursday afternoon.
A equal to 2-2 in the fifth, the command of Peterson hesitated. He struck a dough, walked a paste and abandoned a simple blow with a withdrawal. With the count of Machado, the third basic player failed a complete curved ball, almost leading it to the second bridge in the field of the center left.
San Diego (83-69) went big, 6-2.
Two solo circuits helped the dishes to keep their heads away, one from Juan Soto during the fifth round of the right -hander Nick Pivetta, and one of Francisco Alvarez to start the seventh round next to the right -hander Jeremiah Estrada. The Home Run of Alvarez came after the dishes took a break in the sixth, when Luis Trouez was thrown away by trying to stretch a single in a double, and Elias Diaz failed to mark the plate before the exit.
It seemed that the dishes would join at the bottom of the seventh when Cedric Mullins walked and stole second. Juan Soto seemed to have a right kick on the right Mason Miller, but it was roughly.
Barely.
The ball cleared the fault pole of the left field a few centimeters, with a replay confirming that the trajectory was too far left. Soto and Alonso put the turn to end the Channel. They have dropped by two points.
Again, the dishes took a break in the eighth, catching Fernando Tatis Jr. in an overview of the second round. The right -hander Ryan Helsley withdrew to keep the game near.
But the dishes were not up to the padres enclosure. One of the best arenas of baseball, Miller withdrew the team in order in the eighth, and closer to Robert Suarez launched around a simple Brett Baty, and a two -ninth outings for the rescue (39).
The dishes remain without victory when they hang out after eight heats, 0-65.
Pete Alonso hit his 36th circuit of the season in the first round to equalize the match at 1-1, and Starling Marte managed one in fourth, equaling the match again, this time at 2-2. Nick Pivetta granted three points deserved on seven strokes and withdrew five in 4 2/3 rounds.
Peterson did not last much longer than Pivetta. The New York enclosure had two days off, which became unused on Tuesday and a leave team on Monday, but after abandoning the Grand Slam, the food has always finished the round. He took the defeat (9-6), with a six-point outing. It was relieved by the right -handed recruit Dom Hamel, which has become the 46th different launcher used by the food this season, a new League record.
When Ramon Laureano attracted right -handed Ryne Stanek to the eighth, fans hit the turnstiles.
The Giants of San Francisco and Arizona Diamondbacks, the two teams that continued the dishes in the NL Wild Card ranking, played earlier in the day in Phoenix, the giants winning in 11 rounds to stay in the race. The dishes are in place in Arizona by only 1.5 games and 2.0 games ahead of San Francisco and Cincinnati, the Reds defeating the Cardinals of Saint-Louis on Wednesday.
The dishes have not yet come out, but they are still walking on the water, as they have been since mid-June. Finally, the only choices will be to flow or swim.
