Mets hit three homers and new bullpen passes first test in win over Guardians after sell-off
CLEVELAND — Name tags might have been appropriate within the Mets clubhouse Tuesday, a day after president of baseball operations David Stearns finished his trade deadline sell-off.The anonymous new Mets included Nate Lavender, Jefry Yan and Chayse McDermott.More familiar — yet largely forgotten — names such as Dedniel Núñez and Cristian Pache also arrived.
Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets.Life after Luke Weaver, Huascar Brazobán and Brooks Raley, to name a few, wasn’t so bad for the Mets on this night, who received three home runs and strong work from one of the bullpen newcomers in a 6-2 victory over the Guardians at Progressive Field.Luis Torrens, Bo Bichette and Carson Benge all went deep to help the Mets end a three-game losing streak.Lavender, in his major league debut, pitched 1 ¹/₃ scoreless innings to pick up where Raley and A.J.
Minter — the two lefty relievers traded by the Mets in recent days — left off.The new look bullpen included Kodai Senga shifted from long relief to pitching the ninth.The right-hander worked a scoreless inning.The Mets received a third straight solid outing from Sean Manaea, but the left-hander lived dangerously: he allowed seven hits and five walks, yielding two runs over six innings with seven strikeouts.
It was Manaea’s third straight start pitching six innings and allowing two earned runs or fewer.Torrens blasted a three-run homer in the second inning to get the Mets started.The homer was the third season for Torrens, whose playing time behind the plate has increased, sliding Francisco Alvarez into an occasional DH role.
Alvarez started at DH on this night.Bichette homered on the first pitch of the third inning to extend the Mets’ lead to 4-0.Bichette’s blast was his 11th this season.After the Guardians scored a run on Angel Martinez’s RBI double in the third, the Mets countered in the fourth.
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