You don’t fluke your way into 10 strikeouts against the team with the second-lowest K rate in MLB. That deal looks good for Seattle - Steve Cishek can leave after this season, while Ramirez has team control through 2019 - even if he remains a run-of-the-mill swingman.Īs this game shows, though, Ramirez has the potential to be much more than that. He worked in the Rays rotation earlier this year, but when Tampa Bay set out to upgrade its bullpen, he found himself on the move to Seattle. Ramirez didn’t even start the season with the M’s. Less than a week after Cleveland’s 22-game winning streak, the right-hander - who came into the game with a 4.56 ERA and 4.61 FIP -shut the team down, allowing one run on three hits and no walks over eight innings. So it was pretty surprising when Erasmo Ramirez, of all people, tore through the Indians, of all teams. Seattle’s starting rotation, with the fifth-lowest fWAR in the majors, bears a lot of the blame for that. Where New York plummeted in the standings pretty quickly, putting spectators out of their misery by the end of the spring, Seattle teased its fans by flirting with contention for most of the year, its playoff odds peaking at 31.1 percent in August before slowly declining to near-nothing. The Mariners’ season has been a lot more painful than the Mets’, at least in my opinion. A score of 70 is very good a score of 90 is outstanding. The score begins at 50, with points added for outs and strikeouts, and subtracted for walks, hits, and runs. Game Score was developed by Bill James as a quick way to evaluate a starting pitcher’s performance. Hey, there’s always next yea- * beaten by aggrieved Mets fans * Yesterday’s best game score Erasmo Ramirez - 83 Doesn’t make up for the terrible season, just helps to cushion the blow a bit. Still, a win like this - featuring a comeback ignited by veterans and finished off by young talent - is satisfying for New York. 3 seed, while the Mets have a top-10 draft pick all but locked up. 1 seed and six games ahead of the Cubs for the No. The Nats are 5.5 games behind the Dodgers for the No. This game makes little difference in the standings for either team. In the next inning, Joe Blanton gave up another run, giving the Mets the lead for good. That long ball garnered huge applause, tied the score at 6, and chased Jackson. He wasted no time: Image via Brooks Baseball With two men on, one out, and the score 6-3 Nats, d’Arnaud stepped to the plate looking for a ball to drive. He came around to score on another knock from Nori Aoki, who then crossed the plate on an Asdrubal Cabrera base hit. Juan Lagares led off the fifth inning with a bunt single against Edwin Jackson. After Washington took a 6-1 lead early in Friday’s game, the crowd at Citi Field got quiet, but soon things turned around. In a season like this, when the Mets have nosedived into irrelevancy as the Nationals have stormed to the division title - which they actually did before the Dodgers, funnily enough - the New York faithful just want a reason to come out and cheer. Matt Harvey’s been terrible and sad, Noah Syndergaard’s been hurt for most of the year, somehow they broke Steven Matz, yadda yadda yadda, the team is 66-87 and behind both the Marlins and Braves in the NL East. Yesterday’s biggest play Travis d’Arnaud gives the Mets some schadenfreude - +.347 WPA GIF via MLB.comĢ017 has been an Annus horribilis for the New York Metropolitans. Every day during the 2017 regular season, Beyond the Box Score will be recapping all the biggest action from the previous day - with a sabermetric slant, of course - and looking ahead to what today will bring. The MLB season lasts half the year, and it can be hard for the average fan to keep up.
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