Phillies Awoke A Sleeping Giant

Last night, the Mets offense was again the Mets offense going 1-for-14 with RISP and leaving 10 men on base. Marcus Stroman was good for 5.0, but he had to leave with a tight hamstring.

The key focus of the game is the eighth when Jose Alvarado came into the game. If you recall last time, he threw two pitches up and in at Michael Conforto. He’d do the same just once to Conforto, but this time Conforto lined out.

That’s probably a ball that goes for extra bases, but the wind was crazy and knocked the ball down. There was a lot of that last night.

As it turned out, the inning set up where Dominic Smith, who was the most vocal when Alvardo threw at Conforto, stepped to the plate with two on and two out. After a wild pitch, it was runners at second and third. In tough at-bat, Smith struck out, and Alvarado had something to say.

Smith went to confront Alvarado, who suddenly wasn’t a tough guy anymore. He found his teammates and did the “hold me back routine.”

This wasn’t over. Later in the game, Miguel Castro came inside twice to Rhys Hoskins. Yes, it was really inside twice, but it was lower. It’s difficult to determine intent, but for a Phillies team who likes to hide behind Alvarado’s selective wildness, the Mets could also do so here.

As Ron Darling noteed, Castro was actively trying to get Hoskins out, but that didn’t matter. Hoskins has something to say as we went up the baseline, and he didn’t come to meet Castro.

The Mets might’ve lost this one 2-1, but they did show some fight. This might’ve been that moment that wakes them up and gives them some fire. As we saw, the Mets are ready, and the Phillies were the ones flinching. We’ll see how that plays out tonight.

5 Replies to “Phillies Awoke A Sleeping Giant”

  1. Chris says:
    May 1, 2021 at 10:06 am

    Ha! I hope so. That or electric shock therapy to wake them up.

  2. Pal88 says:
    May 1, 2021 at 11:50 am

    We’ve all been through this before. If the ‘27 Yankees’ had Met uniforms on it would be he same old Met story.
    I’m convinced, they are snake bitten

  3. David Klein says:
    May 1, 2021 at 4:48 pm

    Yeah the Mets showed something when McNeil and Alonso were grab assign with Hoskins after he flipped on Castro lol.

    1. metsdaddy says:
      May 1, 2021 at 5:04 pm

      As usual, your reply is pure gibberish

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