BOSTON — Contact hasn’t been Mark Vientos’ drawback these days as a lot as driving the ball.
The Mets third baseman/DH started Monday a good 16-for-54 (.296) in Might, however with solely two extra-base hits for the month.
Vientos homered towards the Cubs on Might 11 and adopted with a double the subsequent evening towards the Pirates.
“That is simply a part of the season the place I’m not driving the ball as a lot,” Vientos mentioned earlier than going 0-for-4 as DH in a 3-1 loss to the Crimson Sox on Monday. “There’s most likely going to be part of the season the place I’m dropping the barrel each single time I hit.”
Vientos final season blasted 27 homers in 414 at-bats. He entered Monday with 5 in 158 at-bats.
“I don’t need him going on the market making an attempt to chase homers,” supervisor Carlos Mendoza mentioned. “I need him to proceed to provide an excellent strategy and management the strike zone, get pitches to hit and put good swings on it after which they’ll come. However, yeah, it’s been somewhat on and off right here.”
Mendoza downplayed this stretch of video games towards three of MLB’s finest offensive groups within the Yankees, Crimson Sox and Dodgers. The Mets misplaced two of three video games to the Yankees over the weekend.
“I really feel like these days there’s no gentle spot anymore,” Mendoza mentioned. “It looks like each workforce you play is an efficient workforce, particularly within the Nationwide League. It’s a reasonably aggressive league.”
The Mets will play subsequent week towards the White Sox and Rockies, who started the day a mixed 49 video games beneath .500.
Nick Morabito and Jonah Tong have been named Japanese League Participant of the Week and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, for Double-A Binghamton.
Morabito, a 22-year-old outfielder, was 12-for-26 (.462) with a 1.248 OPS for the week.
Tong, who earned the award for the second straight week, threw six scoreless innings towards Hartford wherein he struck out eight and walked two with two hits allowed.
The Mets haven’t misplaced three straight video games this season.
The 48-game stretch with out dropping three straight is the workforce’s longest since 2007, when the Mets went 56 video games into the season with out such a dropping streak.
