Mets seeing ‘locked-in’ Edwin Diaz again in rebound from rough road trip
NY Post
Edwin Diaz’s first four pitches in the ninth were fastballs that missed the strike zone.
But just when it seemed the Mets closer might be reverting back to the trouble he found in back-to-back games on the recent road trip, Diaz came back and got the final three outs of Wednesday’s 8-3 win over the Red Sox.
And he finished it with three straight fastballs that were clocked over 100 mph.
“I have that in my back pocket,’’ Diaz said of the added velocity on his strikeout of Romy Gonzalez that finished the game — and a seventh-straight Mets win.
With the Mets still chasing the Braves for the final NL wild-card spot, they will almost certainly continue to lean heavily on Diaz, who has mostly pitched well since mid-June before blowing back-to-back save opportunities, first in San Diego on Aug. 25 then Arizona three days later.
Since then, Diaz has allowed one baserunner in four innings — the leadoff walk to Triston Casas on Wednesday — and whiffed nine batters, including two more Wednesday.
There were times Sunday afternoon when the Knicks tried their mightiest to counteract the space-time continuum, moments when it seemed they were trying to batter the Bucks so ferociously that somehow they could turn the clock back two days and try to figure out how to reverse the bludgeoning they’d received from the Thunder on Friday.