In loss, Milone picks up where he left off
More home runs are being hit in Major League Baseball this season than ever before. Tommy Milone is helping the cause. The Mets’ starter returned to the mound after a three-month absence and gave up a pair of home runs over 4 2/3 innings in a 7-4 loss to the Diamondbacks on Tuesday at Citi Field.
Patrick Corbin, a native of Clay, N.Y., silenced the Mets’ bats, throwing eight innings of four-hit ball. The lone run he allowed came on a solo shot from Amed Rosario in the fifth inning, his third in 21 major league games.
Dominic Smith gave the Mets some life in the bottom of the ninth, pinch hitting and roping an RBI ground-rule double to the gap to make it a 7-2 deficit. Matt Reynolds drove in another run on a ground out and Rosario tripled home Smith before the rally died.
“They’re playing hard,” manager Terry Collins said. “That’s why, two nights in a row, you’ve seen rallies late in the game because they play hard.”
The loss was the Mets’ 10th to Arizona in the teams’ last 11 meetings.
Another day, another Mets injury. On Tuesday it was Michael Con
forto who was scratched from the lineup due to a sore right thumb. He had planned to play but Collins said there was no sense in pushing it.
“It’s just a little sore in my thumb,” Conforto said. “It’s not that bad. I played [Monday] night with it, hit fine. We just got in with a doctor as soon as we could [Tuesday] just to be safe. The doctor said everything looks OK. It’s just overuse, inflammation-type thing.”
After Matt Harvey made his third rehab start Monday night for Double-A Binghamton, the Mets pitcher may need just one more start before coming off the disabled list from a stress injury to the scapula bone in his right shoulder. Another starter, Noah Synder
gaard, is slated to throw batting practice Wednesday afternoon.
Jeurys Familia tossed a scoreless fifth inning for the Brooklyn Cyclones on Tuesday night, marking the first half of his scheduled back-to-back appearances. He needed just 10 pitches to complete the 1-2-3 frame.