The 5,400 square-foot video board that looms over the giant pop-up apple beyond center field showed Blake Snell warming up before the bottom of the first inning Saturday night.left-hander was a nugget of information, a kind bulletin to let the Citi Field crowd know Snell had walked six batters in his previous start.
Nabil Crismatt worked a scoreless seventh. Adrian Morejón struck out the three batters he faced in the seventh, allowed a leadoff single in the eighth and recorded a fourth strikeout before giving way to Luis Garcia with one out and a runner on first. He had walked 31 batters in 50 innings and, moreover, too often put himself in situations where batters could essentially predict what was coming. He had allowed a .357 batting average when behind in counts and a .115 average when ahead. The latter mark would have been the best in the majors if he had enough innings to qualify. Just 60 percent of his pitches were strikes.
There were plenty of opportunities for Snell to unravel. But he never became the wild man version of himself. Not in the fourth inning when Pete Alonso’s one-out double gave the Mets another runner in scoring position with less than two outs. Luke Voit’s leadoff single in the seventh was the Padres’ fourth and final hit off Bassitt, who tied a career high with 11 strikeouts in his seven innings.
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