deGrom Has Off Night By His Standards And Loses

Tonight, Jacob deGrom pitched eight innings allowing just two earned on six hits. He struck out nine and walked one.

Believe it or not, this outing increased his ERA from 1.82 to 1.85. He lowered his K/9 from 10.7 to 10.6.

Put another way, deGrom has been so great this season that this qualifies as an off night for him.

He did his part to offset his “poor” pitching by driving home a run. That would be one of the Mets only two hits on the night.

To make matters worse, it’s not even like the Mets lost with the young players either:

  • You could almost understand playing the veterans to get deGrom a win, but it hasn’t worked so far this season. In fact, deGrom is the only pitcher in MLB history with a sub 2.00 ERA after 20 starts with fewer than seven wins.
  • Well, he doesn’t have seven wins. He’s stuck at five with seven losses.
  • As great as deGrom is is as bad as the Mets are. We are well past the point of ridiculous. This better not cost deGrom the Cy Young.
  • Game Notes: Before the game, Mickey Callaway said the Mets organization views Guillorme, a player they added to the 40 man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 Draft, as a pinch hitter and late inning defensive replacement. He said this on a day the Mets started Reyes at second.

    • 7 Replies to “deGrom Has Off Night By His Standards And Loses”

    1. Blu2MileHigh says:
      August 4, 2018 at 4:36 am

      “To make matters worse, it’s not even like the Mets lost with the young players either:

      Jose Bautista started at third over Wilmer Flores
      Jose Reyes started at second over Flores, Jeff McNeil, and Luis Guillorme
      Devin Mesoraco started at catcher over Kevin Plawecki”

      Frazier is back
      The Braves have lots of lefty bats….. Flores’s range at first?
      Sanchez was crafty with his cutter and his change.
      Batista is a low ball hitter
      Callaway is trying to use anything, including speed.
      Reyes and Batista had a great double play

      The Met team defense was a priority
      For those OTHERS who went to de Groms last home start – team defense did de Grom in…. ?

      Plawecki was dreadful as catcher on Thursday.
      It was not televised but trust me Plawecki sucked on Thursday…

      Does Plawecki have 20 RBIs?
      What is Flores lifetime average against righties?
      Who was to pinch hit against a Atlanta lefty…

      1. metsdaddy says:
        August 4, 2018 at 6:49 am

        Plawecki > Meosraco

        Flores is hitting RHP this year.

    2. Luis Venitucci says:
      August 4, 2018 at 6:46 am

      Calloway is now a confirmed idiot

      1. metsdaddy says:
        August 4, 2018 at 6:50 am

        Callaway is not making those decisions just on his own accord.

    3. Gothamist says:
      August 4, 2018 at 2:43 pm

      Flores defense anywhere is so dreadful that Batista with eight lifetime starts at first was a quality upgrade last night.

      https://www.mlb.com/mets/video/reyes-bautista-turn-amazing-dp/c-2343098183?tid=51231442

      Though Wilmer has hit finese pitchers better —There was no way Wilmer would hit the change or cutter from Sanchez last night.

      Against lefties or righties this team, these splits, RISP, the better hitters get few RBIs etc are horrific.

      Yet Flores correctly hits righties at .280 but Callaway will need to give him time off in August and last night might have been one of those nights.

      The only thing clear was that Callaway wanted the best defense out there last night.

      No one here on Metsdaddy sees it that way ….. well….

      1. metsdaddy says:
        August 4, 2018 at 8:50 pm

        Your assertions he wanted the best defense out there is proven to be completely false when the Mets best defender did not even sniff the field yesterday.

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