Without his sharpest slider, Mets closer Edwin Diaz just dialed up the radar gun to escape trouble against the Dodgers.
Without his sharpest slider, Edwin Diaz just dialed up the radar gun to escape trouble against the Dodgers.
“I think he realized he wasn’t carrying the normal torque on his breaking ball,” manager Buck Showalter said. “He almost got hurt with a couple of them. He just decided to go to option B. Pretty good option B, isn’t it?” A night after After blowing a fastball by Max Muncy, Diaz went back to his slider and Muncy drilled it 364 feet to the warning track in right-center field. But Brandon Nimmo huddled under it for the first out, with Freeman tagging for third.
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