These are honestly my least favorite recaps to write.
Not solely because the Mets lost, since we are all Mets fans here and that is not what any of us want, but they just all kind of played bad baseball and never felt super in this one. So its hard to make it interesting, if I am going to be completely honest with you, dear reader.
They trailed from the second inning on, as the first inning went by with neither team scoring. Jonah Tong, who toed a Major League rubber for the second time in his career, was really up against it the entire time. The young righty was far from sharp, and his two glaring issues on the day showed themselves in the second inning. He walked Spencer Steer and gave up a big boy home run to Sal Stewart, the first of his career, to the tune of 412 feet and 107.1 mph,