Mets completely fall apart in loss to Pirates after Carlos Mendoza’s questionable Christian Scott decision
NY Post
PITTSBURGH — Christian Scott was rolling with two outs in the sixth inning Monday at 77 pitches when his manager went to the mound and asked for the baseball.
All hell was about to break loose for the Mets.
The flurry after Carlos Mendoza removed his starter included a walk, three singles (two of which weren’t hit particularly hard), double, error, wild pitch and homer.
Eric Orze, in his major league debut, lit the fire and Adrian Houser behind him turned it into an inferno in an 8-2 loss to the Pirates at PNC Park.
Mendoza said it was decided before the game that the rookie Scott, pitching on four days’ rest for the first time in his career, would be held to 75 pitches.
Especially given that Scott had thrown 99 pitches in his last outing.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.