PORT ST. LUCIE — Carlos Carrasco watched two of his pitches disappear behind the fence at Clover Park on Wednesday.
A gentle wind actually didn’t assist the right-hander, whose Grapefruit League debut included three earned runs allowed on six hits and one stroll over 4 innings towards the Astros.
Michael Brantley smashed a no-doubt, two-run homer towards Carrasco in the third inning. In the fourth, Yordan Alvarez hit a solo homer that simply cleared the fence in left — the route in which the wind was blowing.
“It was a great pitch to Alvarez, a great pitch to Michael Brantley,” Carrasco stated. “I think I could have thrown a little more inside to Michael Brantley. I know he is afraid of inside, and I think I should have put that a little bit more inside for a ball and throw another one down and away for a ground ball, but he just got in there.”
Carrasco, getting back from October surgical procedure to take away a bone fragment from his proper elbow, had pitched 3 ¹/₃ innings in an intrasquad minor league recreation final week in which he allowed 5 earned runs, together with two homers.
After throwing 45 pitches on this evening, Carrasco was eliminated. He later threw one other 15 pitches in the bullpen.
“I am glad I went out there and pitched and feel healthy,” Carrasco stated.
Robinson Cano will seemingly begin at first base Thursday towards the Nationals, in response to Buck Showalter, simply to provide him innings at a place he might play once in a while throughout the common season.
The 39-year-old infielder final performed first base for the Mariners in 2018, when he began 10 video games on the place.
Eduardo Escobar, the Mets’ major third baseman, began at second on Wednesday additionally to obtain a take a look at a place at which he could also be wanted sooner or later.
“Just because you’re an infielder doesn’t mean you are going to be comfortable at any position,” Showalter stated. “It’s like the outfield: Left field, center field, right field is completely different. … We are just trying to get them a different angle, a different look before we get out of here, because [time] is dwindling.”
James McCann began behind the plate for a second straight recreation after sitting out the earlier week with again discomfort. Showalter plans to provide McCann an evening off on Thursday.
David Wright is anticipated in camp Thursday as a visitor teacher. Al Leiter has been visiting in latest days in the identical capability. Keith Hernandez, Mike Piazza and Mookie Wilson are among the many Mets alumni who’ve hung out in camp this spring interacting with gamers.
