Clay Holmes looks like he’s run out of gas. Unfortunately for the Mets, they still have a ton of road left to go.
Clay Holmes looks like he’s run out of gas.
Unfortunately for the Mets, they still have a ton of road left to go.
Another poor outing by Holmes threatened to ruin Pete Alonso’s big night, as Holmes failed to get out of the fourth for a no-decision in a 13-5 Mets win over Atlanta.
After Alonso hit his franchise record 253rd homer, Holmes gave back a 5-1 lead by coughing up four runs in the fourth, with the bottom of the order doing much of the damage.
“He had a hard time landing the sinker for strikes. He was missing arm-side a lot,” said Carlos Mendoza. “We could’ve done a better job recognizing that he was missing arm-side, maybe start using the cutter, some of the other pitches.”
Holmes allowed six hits, five earned runs and walked five in just 3 ²/₃ innings.
