The Mets regressed the day after a near-perfect outing, with Kodai Senga delivering a mediocre start and the offense stalling when Cedric Mullins failed to catch a medium-depth fly ball against the Nationals' bullpen. Brett Baty produced a majestic, long homer despite the loss, estimated at about 455 feet. The first two-thirds of the Mets-Nationals game coincided with attendance at Portland's Hadlock Field for a Sea Dogs vs. Binghamton Rumble Ponies Double-A matchup. The Mets promoted Jett Williams, Ryan Clifford, Carson Benge and Jonah Tong to Syracuse. Binghamton's R.J. Gordon carried a no-hitter into the seventh, and Jacob Reimer hit a laser-beam homer and a ringing double.
A day after a near-perfect game, the Mets looked once again lacking in all too familiar ways: Kodai Senga was mediocre, and the offense's comeback stalled when Cedric Mullins couldn't hit a medium-depth fly ball, beginning a maddening streak of futility against the Nationals' terrible bullpen. (Before we move on, though, let's note Brett Baty 's majestic homer, struck though it was in defeat. Watching the replay, I told my kid "I didn't think Baty had 455 feet in him," to which the kid replied, "I don't think Baty thought he had 455 feet in him.)
We missed the first two-thirds of Mets-Nats, for a defensible reason: We were at Portland's Hadlock Field to watch the Sea Dogs take on the Binghamton Rumble Ponies in a clash of the Red Sox' and Mets' Double-A clubs. This look at the future seemed to have lost some of its juice a few days ago, when the Mets promoted Jett Williams, Ryan Clifford, Carson Benge and Jonah Tong to Syracuse.
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