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The Mets face the Marlins in Miami on Tuesday at 6:40 p.m. on SNY.

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Mets Notes

• Kodai Senga gets the start in what will be his season debut
• Francisco Lindor will be back in the lineup after getting the night off on Monday following the birth of his son
• Juan Sotohas a 1.115 OPS in his first four games as a Met
• Huascar Brazoban has excelled early on, firing 4.1 scoreless innings over two appearances while allowing two hits, one walk, and striking out four

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Here's what happened in Mets Land on Monday, in case you missed it...

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• The Mets' offense erupted in the middle of the game as they battered the Marlins, 10-4, on Monday night in Miami
• After the win, Pete Alonsosaid his grand slam was a product of "team quality at-bats"
• The Mets' discussed the polarizing "torpedo bats"
• Francisco Lindorwas back with the club on Monday following the birth of his son
• Dedniel Núñez, who is getting some work in for Triple-A Syracuse before returning to the majors, will pitch again on Thursday
• Paul Blackburnthrew in the outfield as he works toward a return from a knee injury
• David Petersonwas strong while striking out nine batters in his season debut
• After designating Alexander Canario for assignment, the Mets traded him to the Pirates
• WATCH: How likely is a Mets trade for Padres ace Dylan Cease this summer?
• WATCH: The Mets react to Monday's victory
• WATCH: Carlos Mendoza spoke after the game

It could have been worse for the Athletics. Before they headed west to Oakland in 1968, their characterful former owner, Charlie Finley, threatened to move them from Kansas City to a cow pasture in the tiny town of Peculiar, Missouri.

Now they are in a place you might call Limbo, California – also known as the home of the Pacific Coast League’s Sacramento River Cats. It’s a staging post for Major League Baseball’s most contentious franchise after the burning of their Bay Area bridges left them needing somewhere to play ahead of a planned relocation from Oakland to Las Vegas.

The A’s evoke 70s nostalgia thanks to three successive World Series titles from 1972 to 1974, their distinctive green and gold colours and icons such as Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter and Rollie Fingers. And they are admired by analytics obsessives for the Moneyball innovations in the 2000s under the front-office leadership of Billy Beane.

Now they are symbols of executive dysfunction and geographical confusion. The brand plays on – but don’t call them the Oakland Athletics anymore. They’re not officially the Sacramento Athletics, either. Just the Athletics or the A’s. Players don’t have a city name emblazoned on the front of their shirts but wear a patch with an image of Sacramento’s Tower Bridge on their right sleeve and a Las Vegas emblem on the left arm. With an outfield hoarding promoting Las Vegas near a banner hailing the team’s nine World Series championships dating back to 1910 – when they were the Philadelphia Athletics – and a handful of fans in suddenly-retro Oakland gear, it feels like this is a franchise in flux, its identity addled by ownership’s wanderlust.

Related: Baseball’s last dive bar: Farewell to the crumbling Oakland Coliseum

Sutter Health Park is the site they will share for at least the next three seasons with the River Cats, the Triple-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. The River Cats are run by Vivek Ranadivé, who also controls the NBA’s Sacramento Kings. Sacramento, an often-overlooked city that was close to acquiring an MLS team but brought down in 2021 when seemingly clear on goal, would like another major-league outfit to boost its profile.

Though the A’s do not want to stick around for long, the 25-year-old venue has been upgraded, with bigger dugouts and clubhouses, better video and sound systems and facilities in the bullpens so that relievers can, well, relieve themselves. But it clearly remains a minor-league stadium, pleasant but petite, with its low-slung stand, grassy tree-lined picnic slope, kids’ playground and clubhouses accessed via the outfield.

Still, the buzz from crowded concourses and crammed seating areas in Monday’s home-away-from-home opener was palpable; and, for this team, unusual. With a capacity of about 13,000 and evident enthusiasm in the Californian capital, an 80-mile drive from Oakland with a regional population of about 2.5m, the A’s are very likely to better last year’s league-worst average attendance of 11,528.

In 2028 the A’s intend to move to a new $1.75bn ballpark on the site of the former Tropicana Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. The club released renderings last year of a 33,000-capacity ballpark. With the razzle-dazzle the location demands, the design boasts swooping silver curves and shimmering green illuminations, resembling the Gateway Arch on St Patrick’s Day or the Sydney Opera House if it were slathered in pesto.

The MLB commissioner, Rob Manfred, has made progress in speeding up games but stadium negotiations roll at their own pace: however long it takes billionaire team owners and property developers to persuade politicians to fork out taxpayer funding for new venues.

Or not: this transfer completes a devastating triple don’t-play for the city of Oakland: the NFL’s Raiders left for Vegas in 2020 and the Golden State Warriors relocated across the water to San Francisco in 2019.

The A’s are not the only MLB team in a minor-league park this year, with the Tampa Bay Rays borrowing the New York Yankees’ spring-training facility because Tropicana Field was damaged by Hurricane Milton. While that was a natural disaster, this problem was man-made.

The club has been owned since 2005 by John Fisher, heir to the Gap retail fortune and accused of wilfully making the A’s unfashionable in order to make the switch to Nevada more palatable as their 60s-era multi-purpose stadium in Oakland, the Coliseum, crumbled and no deal was reached with city officials. He denies that claim and has insisted that “we worked as hard as possible for six years to find a solution in Oakland.” Fisher asserted to reporters on Monday that his hand was forced because “our lease was ending … and there was not really a legitimate offer on the table to extend”.

Still, last year the A’s payroll was $66.5m, the lowest in MLB by more than $20m. The New York Mets led the league with $333m. The A’s last made the playoffs in 2020 and have endured a losing record for the past three seasons. This year’s payroll is $75m, above only the Chicago White Sox and Miami Marlins.

The club hopes to begin ballpark construction by the middle of this year. Until the new palace is finished, what happens in Vegas stays in Sacramento. A short walk from downtown, Sutter doesn’t have under-seat cooling like the planned new climate-controlled arena. That feature would surely be appreciated in Sacramento in July when the average daily high is 35C (95F). Monday, though, was chilly and blustery, and the A’s were embarrassingly crushed 18-3 by the Chicago Cubs following a tribute to the late Hall of Famer, Rickey Henderson. This was the most runs allowed by a team in a home opener for a hundred years, according to Sportradar.

Many fans left long before the end, though the atmosphere remained upbeat. A man hawking “F*** Fisher” T-shirts on the sidewalk seemed to find few takers; nor was much dissent evident inside the ballpark save for a “sell the team” chant that briefly erupted after the contest became a blow-out. Most attendees were more interested in celebrating the team’s arrival in Sacramento than mourning its exit from Oakland. Among the loudest cheers were in praise of the bat boy when he thwarted a drone.

Some 175 years ago, fortune-seekers flocked to Sacramento to chase the gold rush. These A’s are only passing through in the hope of finding more glittering rewards elsewhere. But for the next few years the city with a landmark bridge may prove an adequate home for a club in transition.

“I think we recognise the need for a temporary home until we get to where we’re going and I think we are fully ready and fully prepared to embrace this as our home for the next three years, both this stadium and this city, and to make the very best of it. It’s going to be a unique environment,” outfielder Brent Rooker told reporters.

“I thought the energy [from fans] was great,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay said after the game. A sustained run of bad performances, however, would surely curdle the mood. “Not a good showing on our first night,” Kotsay conceded.

Notes on every Phillies pitcher through 4 games originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

Off to a 3-1 start, the Phillies have a great chance to win a second consecutive series Wednesday or Thursday when they resume play against the Rockies at Citizens Bank Park. Zack Wheeler will be on the mound for his second start against one of the majors’ worst offenses, one that struggles even more on the road.

Here’s a note on all 13 pitchers so far:

Zack Wheeler

The only run the Nationals scored off Wheeler came on a Keibert Ruiz home run on a 96 mph fastball in and off the plate to conclude a 12-pitch at-bat.

Wheeler has made 65 regular-season starts since 2023. In 39 of them, he’s pitched at least six innings and allowed two runs or fewer — five more such starts than any pitcher in baseball.

Shadows gave Nationals and Phillies hitters even less of a chance on Opening Day than they’d have usually had vs. Wheeler and Mackenzie Gore, but while Gore outdueled Wheeler that afternoon, the Phillies’ ace didn’t make many, if any mistakes.

Jesus Luzardo

Luzardo’s four-seam fastball averaged 96.9 mph in his first start, the highest velocity of any left-handed starter in the majors so far this season.

His sinker averaged 96.0, second in the majors among lefty starters to Cristopher Sanchez (96.5). Luzardo struck out 11 over five innings.

This is going to be a special rotation if the Phillies can keep at least four of the five guys healthy.

Aaron Nola

Nola has allowed 36 home runs in his last 36 starts, including playoffs. With how frequently he is around the plate and how much he challenges hitters, it seems this will always be a thing.

It isn’t such a big deal when nobody is on base. Allowing a solo home run is the same as allowing three straight singles, in fact it’s probably better because of the fewer baserunners and high-stress pitches. Nola has always done a good job of limiting walks and hits. His .287 career opponents’ on-base percentage is more than 30 points lower than the league average over that decade. He obviously has not always done a good job of limiting longballs.

Cristopher Sanchez

It’s not just that his sinker velocity is up 2 mph, his slider is as well, giving hitters less time to judge and react to it. Since June 2023, the changeup has been one of the best in baseball, not just from the eye test but statistically. Sanchez’ sinker already generates a high level of groundballs but at 97 has a chance to miss many more bats than at 94-95. His slider hasn’t been nearly as consistent as the changeup but has been a plus pitch at times. All three offerings could be better than ever this season if the command doesn’t vanish.

Taijuan Walker

While his velocity was closer to the 2023 range in spring training, Walker still struck out only eight batters in 17 innings. He isn’t going to miss many bats and will be reliant on pinpoint fastball command and the success of his splitter. Last season, he couldn’t command the splitter well enough to give hitters a reason to offer at it and they instead wailed away at an upper-80s fastball. At 92 mph, he would have slightly more room to breathe, though still not a ton.

This is a crucial month for Walker’s baseball future. If he pitches well in Ranger Suarez’ absence for three, four, five starts, it could increase his appeal to a more starter-needy team. It could also give the Phillies confidence that he’d serve a purpose as a long man in Year 3 of 4 under contract.

Jordan Romano

Good to see a quick, 11-pitch, two-strikeout bounceback performance to end the home opener after a two-run appearance in the eighth inning on Opening Day.

It seems like Romano and Jose Alvarado will be the right-handed and left-handed closing options, though Orion Kerkering and Matt Strahm could pick up a few saves as well.

Jose Alvarado

Averaged 100.0 mph with his sinker on Monday and unsurprisingly leads all lefty relievers in average velocity thus far. Looks ridiculously good, it’s just a matter of maintaining confidence and control. So much of Alvarado’s game is about confidence and he’s never felt better, physically or stuff-wise.

Orion Kerkering

Is this guy no-nonsense or what? Kerkering has worked out of two jams with two men aboard by going right after hitters with a top-tier slider-fastball combination. On Opening Day, he survived two jam-job bloop hits by inducing more soft contact.

In the home opener, he struck out power-hitting Michael Toglia with a 97 mph fastball that probably caught too much plate, but Toglia wasn’t on time because the at-bat had been all sliders and that’s what hitters must prepare for first vs. Kerkering, especially with two strikes.

Kerkering turns 24 on Friday. There’s quite a future in front of him as a closer or high-leverage reliever. He was drafted in the fifth round in 2022 and no pitcher drafted before him has been more impactful, with Kerkering, Ben Joyce and Jonathan Cannon the top three so far.

Matt Strahm

He’s averaged 92 mph with his fastball and sinker through two outings after missing time in camp with a left shoulder impingement, then cutting the top of a finger as the Phillies were leaving Clearwater. Last season, he averaged 93.5. It would not be surprising to see that average creep up as the month progresses, and Strahm has a deep enough mix of pitches and deception that he’s not wholly reliant on velo anyway.

Tanner Banks

Banks would be a solid second lefty in a lot of bullpens but is the Phillies’ third. They like his ability to go more than an inning if needed. He has a 3.42 ERA as a Phillie but oftentimes for a reliever the more important number is his rate of scoreless appearances. Banks has avoided an earned run in two-thirds of his — ideally that would be closer to 75%. (An example of an elite rate would be 2024 Jeff Hoffman at 87%).

Joe Ross

Curious to see who the Phillies turn to first when they need a long man after a short start. Ross has started plenty in his career and was signed to both provide rotation depth and another experienced right-handed relief option. He had a 1.78 ERA last season as a reliever. Ross, Banks and Carlos Hernandez are the three relievers the Phillies feel most comfortable using for more than an inning.

Jose Ruiz

Came out of nowhere to deliver a solid 2024 season, though it remains to be seen whether he can be the third-best right-handed reliever in a contending bullpen.

Carlos Hernandez

Legitimately one of the largest men in the sport. Listed at 6-4/255 but looks closer to 6-6/280. Did not pitch well in his first outing and is likely a guy Rob Thomson wants to get into another non-leverage situation soon for a chance to rebound.

Notes on every Phillies pitcher through 4 games originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

Off to a 3-1 start, the Phillies have a great chance to win a second consecutive series Wednesday or Thursday when they resume play against the Rockies at Citizens Bank Park. Zack Wheeler will be on the mound for his second start against one of the majors’ worst offenses, one that struggles even more on the road.

Here’s a note on all 13 pitchers so far:

Zack Wheeler

The only run the Nationals scored off Wheeler came on a Keibert Ruiz home run on a 96 mph fastball in and off the plate to conclude a 12-pitch at-bat.

Wheeler has made 65 regular-season starts since 2023. In 39 of them, he’s pitched at least six innings and allowed two runs or fewer — five more such starts than any pitcher in baseball.

Shadows gave Nationals and Phillies hitters even less of a chance on Opening Day than they’d have usually had vs. Wheeler and Mackenzie Gore, but while Gore outdueled Wheeler that afternoon, the Phillies’ ace didn’t make many, if any mistakes.

Jesus Luzardo

Luzardo’s four-seam fastball averaged 96.9 mph in his first start, the highest velocity of any left-handed starter in the majors so far this season.

His sinker averaged 96.0, second in the majors among lefty starters to Cristopher Sanchez (96.5). Luzardo struck out 11 over five innings.

This is going to be a special rotation if the Phillies can keep at least four of the five guys healthy.

Aaron Nola

Nola has allowed 36 home runs in his last 36 starts, including playoffs. With how frequently he is around the plate and how much he challenges hitters, it seems this will always be a thing.

It isn’t such a big deal when nobody is on base. Allowing a solo home run is the same as allowing three straight singles, in fact it’s probably better because of the fewer baserunners and high-stress pitches. Nola has always done a good job of limiting walks and hits. His .287 career opponents’ on-base percentage is more than 30 points lower than the league average over that decade. He obviously has not always done a good job of limiting longballs.

Cristopher Sanchez

It’s not just that his sinker velocity is up 2 mph, his slider is as well, giving hitters less time to judge and react to it. Since June 2023, the changeup has been one of the best in baseball, not just from the eye test but statistically. Sanchez’ sinker already generates a high level of groundballs but at 97 has a chance to miss many more bats than at 94-95. His slider hasn’t been nearly as consistent as the changeup but has been a plus pitch at times. All three offerings could be better than ever this season if the command doesn’t vanish.

Taijuan Walker

While his velocity was closer to the 2023 range in spring training, Walker still struck out only eight batters in 17 innings. He isn’t going to miss many bats and will be reliant on pinpoint fastball command and the success of his splitter. Last season, he couldn’t command the splitter well enough to give hitters a reason to offer at it and they instead wailed away at an upper-80s fastball. At 92 mph, he would have slightly more room to breathe, though still not a ton.

This is a crucial month for Walker’s baseball future. If he pitches well in Ranger Suarez’ absence for three, four, five starts, it could increase his appeal to a more starter-needy team. It could also give the Phillies confidence that he’d serve a purpose as a long man in Year 3 of 4 under contract.

Jordan Romano

Good to see a quick, 11-pitch, two-strikeout bounceback performance to end the home opener after a two-run appearance in the eighth inning on Opening Day.

It seems like Romano and Jose Alvarado will be the right-handed and left-handed closing options, though Orion Kerkering and Matt Strahm could pick up a few saves as well.

Jose Alvarado

Averaged 100.0 mph with his sinker on Monday and unsurprisingly leads all lefty relievers in average velocity thus far. Looks ridiculously good, it’s just a matter of maintaining confidence and control. So much of Alvarado’s game is about confidence and he’s never felt better, physically or stuff-wise.

Orion Kerkering

Is this guy no-nonsense or what? Kerkering has worked out of two jams with two men aboard by going right after hitters with a top-tier slider-fastball combination. On Opening Day, he survived two jam-job bloop hits by inducing more soft contact.

In the home opener, he struck out power-hitting Michael Toglia with a 97 mph fastball that probably caught too much plate, but Toglia wasn’t on time because the at-bat had been all sliders and that’s what hitters must prepare for first vs. Kerkering, especially with two strikes.

Kerkering turns 24 on Friday. There’s quite a future in front of him as a closer or high-leverage reliever. He was drafted in the fifth round in 2022 and no pitcher drafted before him has been more impactful, with Kerkering, Ben Joyce and Jonathan Cannon the top three so far.

Matt Strahm

He’s averaged 92 mph with his fastball and sinker through two outings after missing time in camp with a left shoulder impingement, then cutting the top of a finger as the Phillies were leaving Clearwater. Last season, he averaged 93.5. It would not be surprising to see that average creep up as the month progresses, and Strahm has a deep enough mix of pitches and deception that he’s not wholly reliant on velo anyway.

Tanner Banks

Banks would be a solid second lefty in a lot of bullpens but is the Phillies’ third. They like his ability to go more than an inning if needed. He has a 3.42 ERA as a Phillie but oftentimes for a reliever the more important number is his rate of scoreless appearances. Banks has avoided an earned run in two-thirds of his — ideally that would be closer to 75%. (An example of an elite rate would be 2024 Jeff Hoffman at 87%).

Joe Ross

Curious to see who the Phillies turn to first when they need a long man after a short start. Ross has started plenty in his career and was signed to both provide rotation depth and another experienced right-handed relief option. He had a 1.78 ERA last season as a reliever. Ross, Banks and Carlos Hernandez are the three relievers the Phillies feel most comfortable using for more than an inning.

Jose Ruiz

Came out of nowhere to deliver a solid 2024 season, though it remains to be seen whether he can be the third-best right-handed reliever in a contending bullpen.

Carlos Hernandez

Legitimately one of the largest men in the sport. Listed at 6-4/255 but looks closer to 6-6/280. Did not pitch well in his first outing and is likely a guy Rob Thomson wants to get into another non-leverage situation soon for a chance to rebound.

In its brief moment of fame, the torpedo bat has made quite the impression in MLB. Over the weekend, the New York Yankees used the bat, designed by an MIT-educated professor, as an instrument of destruction against the hapless Milwaukee Brewers. Since then, I’ve heard about the bats so often that they’ve been showing up in my dreams. And that makes sense, because prior to this weekend, even in a bandbox like Yankee Stadium, even for a franchise that’s featured the likes of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Mickey Mantle, such home run power could only have been cooked up in the sweetest slumbers of their fanbase. Such a display of muscle was less video game and more cartoon, as in the famed 1946 Bugs Bunny clip that saw the Gas-House Gorillas rack up 46 straight runs against the genteel Tea Totallers.

In case you missed it, the Yankees, minus the 68 home runs of the now departed Juan Soto and the injured Giancarlo Stanton, provided a franchise record nine home runs in one game, 15 home runs across three games and 36 total runs against the Brewers. We’re talking about a Yankees team that coughed up five errors on Saturday and still won by 11 runs.

The torpedo bats, just about the only thing that could overshadow MLB’s botching of Opening Day thanks to the crashing of its own app, is another example of how over-innovation can ruin baseball. The engineers who came up with the bat are cousins of the stats savants who brought us the analytics which slowly sucked the entertainment out of the sport, and the physics experts who came up with scientifically altered pitchers which sank the 2024 batting averages of all but six teams to below .250.

The latest over-innovation moves the bulk of the wood in the bat to the customized area where the batter is most likely to hit the ball the hardest. The enlarged sweetspot, which gives a player a better chance of making good contact makes perfect sense, and frankly, it’s incredibly smart. And yes, hitters do need something, anything, to take back some of the game from the pitchers who have shrunk batting averages for years. Now they have.

Related: Yankees’ new torpedo bats draw attention after home-run blitz against Brewers

That said, 15 home runs in three games? That’s a problem. After the Yankees’ 12-3 win over the Brewers on Sunday, their radio voice Suzyn Waldman was trying to explain away the torpedo issue, by saying that it’s not new, that the exit velocity is similar between traditional and torpedo bats, that other teams use them and that the issue will be a talking point for a while until everyone moves on.

That’s partially true: other players around the league are toying with the bats, and it’s not entirely new. But New York, thanks to the 2022 hiring of the bat’s key brain, Aaron Leanhardt, who holds a postgraduate degree in physics from MIT, are seemingly more in on the torpedo bats than any other team. If New York – or any other teams who decide to adopt the bat – continue to hit like this over the long-term it will turn box scores into farces, and mess with the integrity of the game in a way we haven’t seen since the steroid era.

It should be said that some players and coaches from other teams don’t seem to have an issue with the new bats. “It’s still a human that has to hit it,” said Cleveland Guardians manager Stephen Vogt. “It’s not the bat hitting the homer.”

Swap “bat” for “PEDs”, and that’s a common defense for Barry Bonds’ election into the Hall of Fame. In this case, an important distinction is that the bats are totally legal, the Yankees have not broken any rules of the game. Coincidentally, Bonds’ early adoption of maple bats was, to a way lesser degree, somewhat controversial.

The reason he began using maple, and PEDs, is the same reason the torpedo bat is in the news today – players and teams are continuously looking for an edge. And right now the Yankees are getting it.

Now that we’re here, I have several questions. Will New York’s torrid stretch continue? Will this tech be adopted by other teams and players? If that happens, will more games become farcical? And should the bats be banned? If torpedo bats are banned – and there’s no indication that one is forthcoming – then why didn’t the Yankees wait until the playoffs to unveil their secret weapon? Now that would have surely wrestled back their “evil empire” label from the Dodgers.

There’s a caveat here. Aaron Judge smoked the Brewers – one of his four homers in the series went 468ft – without the torpedo bat. And then, on Monday, the Royals crushed the Brewers 11-1. As far as we know, the Royals don’t have torpedo bats, leading us to the conclusion that rather than being victims of technology, the Brewers are just … bad. But if the Yankees’ power-surge continues for another two weeks or so, MLB will probably have no choice but to ban the bats, legal or not, under the little used “best interests in baseball” clause. This would be another embarrassing mess for baseball, as Leanhardt told the Athletic that “it was a group effort, the results coming from conversations with coaches, players, MLB and bat makers.” So unless we’re all overreacting, MLB may have botched the rollout of this new tech by not unilaterally taking over the usage from the clubs.

The good news is that dialed down torpedo bats could actually serve as the long-term answer for suffering hitters. This could be vital for a sport which needs more dynamic offense and less of the increasingly predictable and boring three outcomes: a walk, strikeout or a home run. For now, much to the chagrin of Yankees fans, I’d put the toy back in the box, do the research and development in the minor leagues, and reintroduce a more refined product in a few seasons.

On Thursday and Friday night at Dodger Stadium, a common refrain echoed from the home plate escalators as the crowd was filing out.

“One-hundred-sixty-two and 0!” one fan shouted Thursday, while administering two-handed high-fives to passers-by.

“One-hundred-sixty-two and 0!” another yelled Friday, soliciting a chorus of cheers back in response.

In a 162-game baseball season, such perfection is virtually unattainable. But for now, Dodgers fans can keep on dreaming.

Because six games in, their team has been, well, perfect.

Read more:Shower ‘mishap’ sidelines Freddie Freeman; Dodgers ‘interested’ in torpedo bats 

In a 6-1 win over the Atlanta Braves on Monday, the Dodgers continued their unbeaten start to this year’s World Series title defense — going wire-to-wire in a game dominated by starting pitcher Tyler Glasnow, who threw five scoreless innings with eight strikeouts; and a Dodgers lineup that, despite missing Freddie Freeman after he slipped in the shower this weekend and aggravated his surgically repaired right ankle, struck for four early runs and never looked back.

“I didn't know what to expect going into spring, but it just seemed like the atmosphere was even hungrier than last year,” Glasnow said. “I think it's been from Day 1, everyone has just been super motivated to come out strong and win it again. The focus, it's very high this year. It's really good."

Making his first start of 2025, and his first outing overall since sustaining a season-ending elbow injury last August, Glasnow set that tone from the start Monday.

He struck out the first two batters he faced, snapping off a nasty curveball to Michael Harris II before blowing a 98-mph fastball by Austin Riley. He worked around a temporary lapse of command in the second, stranding a pair of leadoff walks without further stress. And he didn’t give up his first hit until the fifth inning, flashing the same overpowering arsenal that had him on track to be the Dodgers’ postseason ace last year before elbow tendinitis sidelined him for all of October.

"He's one of the best pitchers in the game,” catcher Will Smith said. “We're fortunate to have him. He gave us five really good innings. He was really good."

Glasnow probably could have kept going after the fifth, having thrown just 79 pitches.

But by then, the team was already leading 5-0, giving manager Dave Roberts a chance to ride a rested bullpen coming off of Sunday’s off-day.

“I thought he had a good rhythm throughout the night,” Roberts said of Glasnow. “You can see the conviction of the breaking ball today. There's a lot of bad swings with that pitch. And then the fastball played. So, yeah, I think tonight was a good stepping stone going forward.”

Teoscar Hernández opened the scoring for the Dodgers with a two-run home run in the first, giving him eight RBIs already on the young season, tied for second in the National League.

Michael Conforto helped double the lead in the third, smashing an RBI double off the wall two at-bats before Tommy Edman lifted a near-grand slam to the warning track in center for a sacrifice fly.

Will Smith, off to a blistering start with a team-best .467 batting average, tacked on an RBI single in the fifth.

And Kiké Hernández — who replaced Freeman at first base in his first game since the team’s season-opening Tokyo trip, having missed last weekend’s series against Detroit while recovering from a stomach illness — ripped a solo home run to left in the sixth for superfluous insurance.

“It certainly speaks to the depth,” Roberts said of his offense, which is averaging six runs per game even though Freeman (who also missed the Tokyo games because of rib discomfort) and Betts (who has sat three times while getting over a stomach virus) have each only played in half the games. 

“Teo started us off tonight with the big hit ... Kiké hadn’t played in a while and comes in, hits a homer. So it's just really nice when you can look up and down the roster and plug in some guys that are certainly formidable.”

Put it all together, and the Dodgers have made some notable history.

Though their opening five-game win streak was hardly flawless, requiring them to come from behind in four games, they nonetheless achieved 30 runs, 20-plus walks (21), 10-plus home runs (12) and 55 strikeouts (59) without committing an error; something no team had ever done over any five-game stretch in major league history.

They have matched the best start to a season in the organization’s Los Angeles history, equaling the 6-0 mark set by the 1981 World Series championship team.

And now, they have their sights set on more milestones, trying to eclipse the franchise’s all-time best start to a season of 10-0 set by the 1955 “Boys of Summer” title team in Brooklyn.

As for 162-0, Roberts was asked…

“No, I’ve got the under on that one,” he joked. “We’re still not really playing great. We haven’t synced things up. But we’re still finding ways to win. And it’s good our guys are focusing on each night and trying to win a ball game.”

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The Mets' bats woke up and scored a 10-4 win over the Miami Marlins to open up the second series of the 2025 MLB season. But Monday night's game wasn't the only thing on Carlos Mendoza's mind as New York's manager spoke about the big topic around baseball and gave some updates on a pair of pitchers working their way back from injury.

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Torpedo bats no surprise

It is the hottest topic around the league right now, but the manager said the torpedo bats are “nothing new for us.”

“This is something that every team, every player continues to look for: an edge,” the manager said before Monday’s win. “And [to] find ways to improve in the margin,s and this is a perfect example.

“But this has been going on for years where guys are going to these hitting labs and getting bats custom to what they’re like. Whether it’s a thicker handle, bigger barrel.”

Mendoza called it “just a funny-looking bat” that just happened to go viral in the season’s first weekend and wasn’t a big deal when it became a big talking point.

He noted that Francisco Lindor used a torpedo bat in the first series against Houston – images from Friday’s game show a bat that appears torpedoe-like – and the manager believes the shortstop got his model bat toward the end of spring training. (Of course, Lindor's bat blended in with the crowd more than Jazz Chisholm Jr.'s, which could explain the hubub around the Yankees second baseman's lumber.)

“I’m pretty sure guys will at least continue to test it,” Mendoza said of the new bats, “because this is not something [you can] grab it and go try it in the game. You gotta get a feel for it and see what it’s like. But we’ll see how it goes.”

Of course, when asked what kind of advantage the torpedo bat could present, Mendoza said he wasn’t sure if the benefits of the bat “apply to everyone.”

Speaking of Lindor...

Shortstop back with club

Mendoza “knew right away” that Lindor wanted to be with the club after the birth of his third child, Koa, after hearing everyone was “doing well.”

“Perfect timing, on an off-day,” the manager said with a laugh about Lindor's son's Sunday afternoon birth.

Lindor, who is loath to take a day off during the season, was in the dugout during the first inning of Monday's game. And his wanting to be back as soon as possible was nothing new to the manager.

“This is a guy that wants to show and wants to perform and help the team,” he said. “Even when his wife is having a new baby, he’s still thinking about the team.

“That’s who he is. He’s a leader, special person, special guy, special player.”

The shorstop, who was available during the game but not needed in the rout, told The New York Post's Mike Puma that his wife, Katia, "said it was OK to leave, and I left.”

Huascar Brazobán continues to impress

The right-hander extended his scoreless innings run to start the season to 4.1 innings with his second appearance of the campaign on Monday.

“Attacking. We know the stuff is real,” Mendoza said. “It’s a power sinker, the changeup is a pretty good pitch because he can throw it not only to lefties but right on right."

He threw eight changeups on Monday and got three whiffs on four swings. The sinker was better, as he got two whiffs on five swings plus two called strikes on seven deliveries.

“His ability to give us multiple innings to save the bullpen when we need to, you can pitch him when you’re down, you’re up. And he did that today again," the manager added.

Brazobán allowed a hit plus a hit batter in two innings of work against the Marlins, collecting two strikeouts on 28 pitches (19 strikes).

Paul Blackburn and Dedniel Núñez progressing

Núñez threw an inning plus one batter as he works to get properly built up to go in potential four- or five-out situations after he was optioned to start the season at Triple-A Syracuse, Mendoza said before the game Monday.

The Mets felt it was important the right-hander get a “second up” even though it was just the one batter, and he will now have three days off before pitching again Thursday.

“The plan for him is to go two ups again on Thursday, and then he’ll get two days off after that,” Mendoza said. “So far, everything is trending in the right direction.” 

Before Monday’s game, Blackburn threw in the outfield, the first time he has done so since receiving an injection in his right knee to deal with inflammation.

“He continues to say he feels better,” Mendoza said.

The right-hander was targeting Monday as the first day for him to throw, and he is expected to be ready to return from the IL in April.

David Peterson’s first start of the season for the Mets didn’t start out too well: He threw three straight out of the zone. But he followed it up with three straight strikes to tally his first strikeout. Two pitches after his first rebound, Peterson would be looking to bouncing-back once again as Otto Lopez collected the first hit and first run off the left-hander when he drilled a 93 mph sinker 385 feet off the facade of the second deck in right field. 

But that was the theme of the night: Peterson would get into a spot of bother but would recover and not allow much further damage as he kept the Marlins to just two runs in six innings of work in the Mets’ 10-4 win in Miami.

“Solid day,” the left-hander graded his nine-strikeout debut in a “great team win.”

In all, the tall 29-year-old had rough patches – like issuing back-to-back walks to start the second – but followed it up with good stuff – like fielding a sacrifice bunt cleanly before striking out the next two to close that frame. And in the fourth, Miami had runners at the corners, but an 0-1 slider to Liam Hicks got the job done aided by a nifty 3-6-3 double-play.

“I thought he was pretty good,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “Even though he didn’t have the [sinker]. Missing arm side, but I thought the slider was really good. The changeup was good, and [he] made pitches when needed.

“... Strinking out nine? On a day when the sinker wasn’t there, as you want it. Gave us six solid innings, got the win.”

Peterson felt the sinker was “fine” but is going to require some tightening up ahead of his next start – as he got just eight called strikes and whiffs on 28 offerings. (For his part, he said it will be an "easy adjustment" to make.) Of course, that was not the case with his slider, which was whiffed six times on seven Marlins swings.

The lefty credited the work he had put in to the slider, which gave him the “shape he wanted to see” and allowed him to “put it where we wanted to and get those swings and misses.”

Overall, Peterson threw 57 strikes out of 89 pitches and managed to keep his pitch count down, even with congestion on the basepaths from five hits and three walks.

“He’s a guy that continues to find a way, especially when he gets in trouble, there’s traffic, there’s an ability to slow the game down and continue to make pitches,” Mendoza said of his starter. “He did that today… he was not getting ahead early in the game and then some walks, but was able to manage his pitch count.”

And after the Mets’ bats broke the game up with seven runs in the fifth frame, the left-hander came out with 10 straight strikes to start the home half.

“That’s what you want to see, especially when we had an inning the way we had it, you want your pitchers to attack,” Mendoza said. “Give us a shutdown inning, get the offense back in the dugout.”

In that fifth, after allowing a one-out double, Peterson showed off his smarts fielding a comebacker and quickly pivoting to get the runner in a rundown to eliminate the scoring chance.

“It was awesome to watch our offense do their thing and have a huge inning like that,” he said. “I think for me, it’s about being ready when that inning's over to go back out and keep the lead.”

In the Mets’ fourth game of the season, Pete Alonso broke out of a mini-slump to start the season by cracking a grand slam that helped blow Monday’s game wide open en route to a 10-4 win over the Miami Marlins.

Alosno had just one hit during the first three games of the year before going 2-for-4 with four RBI and added his fourth walk of the night. But the big knock came as the meat of a seven-run fifth inning with nobody out and the count full against Marlins right-hander Cal Quantrill.

The slugger, who popped out to second and singled in his first two times up, did well not to chase pitches off the plate and got ahead of the laboring Quantrill 3-1, laying off balls below the zone. Alonso fouled off the next two pitches, the latter just getting a piece of a really good sinker at the bottom of the zone to stay alive. 

On the next pitch, the seventh of the at-bat, the slugger got another Quantrill sinker in a much better spot: thigh high and over the outside of the plate.

“He earned that pitch,” manager Carlos Mendoza said after the game, calling it a “really good at-bat” after taking breaking pitches and a fastball for a called strike that could have led to a rally-killing double play.

Rather than try and pull it - something Alonso did 41.6 percent of the time last year – he went with the pitch and slammed it, 105.9 mph off the bat and 400 feet to right center for a grand slam that only the cavernous Oracle Park in San Francisco would have held.

“Just got it over the plate and hit it hard,” Alonso said of the homer that extended the Mets’ lead to 6-1.

Part of the key to the at-bat, and his early ones against the starter and during the series against the Astros, Mendoza said, was Alonso doing really well “not chasing” pitches and laying off some tough ones.

“And that’s what you want to see,” he said. “You want Pete to control the strike zone and when they’re coming in the zone, when know he’s dangerous becuase of the power. I thought overall he’s giving us really good at-bats.”

In Houston, he “won some 3-2 counts by walking,” the skipper said. On Monday, he won by driving it out of the park to move 15 home runs behind David Wright and 25 behind Darryl Strawberry on the Mets’ all-time list.

Does the first one of the season feel different than the others? “Yeah, it does. It’s a long time without hitting one, and to finally do it in a big league game, it feels pretty cool. I can do it still,” the slugger with 227 to his career said with a smile.

Another encouraging aspect of the homer: In the extremely small sample size of the first series of the season, Alonso is taking the ball the opposite way 42.9 percent of the time and pulling it just 28.6 percent of the time.

Quality at-bats lead to quality results

“Really good at-bats up and down the lineup,” Mendoza said. “Controlled the strike zone and did damage when we needed to… it was good to see overall.”

The difference today than the weekend was adjustments off Quantrill the second time through the order.

“I thought we chased the first time around and thought we made some adjustments and finally got the hit with runners in scoring positions.”

While extra-base hits – three in total – powered the big fifth, it started, Alonso noted, with Luisangel Acuña beating out an infield hit.

“Him getting that leadoff single was huge, [Jose Siri] hitting the double in the gap that was big-time, and then Juan [Soto] and [Starling Marte] having great at-bats, that set up the whole thing,” Alonso continued. “But you can’t have that inning without team quality at-bats, and we did that throughout the entire game.”

After a tough stretch for the bats in Houston, the 10 runs on 11 hits (plus three walks and two hit by pitches) were good to see, but no surprise to the second-year skipper.

“We know we have a good offense, and you know at times you’re gonna go through some stretches that it’s gonna hard,” he said. “You’re gonna be facing some tough pitching staff and that was the case against Houston. And [Tuesday] we got [Marlins ace Sandy] Alcántara, so we gotta bring it tomorrow.

“I’m pretty confident on those guys, and when we’re clicking, we could be pretty dangerous.”

Marte, Alonso, and Brandon Nimmo homered with no help in Monday's win. But that wasn't the case for everyone against Miami...

Luis Torrens’ hard work leads to good luck

With a runner on first and one out in that big fifth inning, Torrens took the first pitch he saw from Miami reliever George Soriano and gave it a ride to center; the ball was smacked 102.6 mph off the bat and traveled 398 feet.

And then it became a life lesson about how it is better to be lucky than good.

Center fielder Derek Hill raced back to the warning track and had a beat on the ball. With a leap just before the fence, Hill had the ball in his glove. The only issue: the ball didn’t stay there. The bigger issue: Hill’s intervention propelled the ball over the fence for a two-run home run and an 8-1 Mets lead.

"He helped that one a little bit, but it's a part of the game,” Torrens was brave enough to admit after the game.

Luis Torrens' ball hits off of Derek Hill's leaping glove for a homer! pic.twitter.com/j8AdXB62er

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 1, 2025

Torrens, unsure if Hill had caught the ball and was acting as if he hadn’t, stopped halfway between first and second before waving at Hill.

“In the beginning, I didn’t really know what happened,” the catcher said, speaking through an interpreter. “So I’m looking if it’s in or out and then saw his glove and he didn’t have it.”

He added: “I thought [Hill] was trying to play the situation off there, but then I saw it was serious that [the ball] wasn’t in the glove.”

The Marlins asked for a crew chief review of the home run, which was fruitless as the call on the field was quickly ruled correct.

“I knew that it had gone out, but I thought they were challenging something with Mark [Vientos] around second base,” Torrens said of the lead runnner making a baserunning mistake ahead of him.

Torrens, who finished 2-for-4 on the night, is off to a solid start to the season – with three extra-base hits through four games – getting time behind the plate Francisco Alvarez on the shelf.

“I think it starts with the confidence of knowing you’re gonna be in the lineup day in and day out," he said about his solid start at the plate. "And then after that, it’s all the hard work that you have to put in to have that success.”

Some of Freddie Freeman’s most productive moments as a Dodger have come in matchups against his old team, the Atlanta Braves.

When the Dodgers announced their lineup for Monday’s series opener against Atlanta at Dodger Stadium, however, the 35-year-old first baseman was not part of it.

Turns out, after hitting a home run and an RBI double in the Dodgers’ victory against the Detroit Tigers on Saturday, Freeman slipped while stepping into his shower at home later that night, according to manager Dave Roberts, aggravating the right ankle he badly sprained at the end of last season and had surgically repaired.

"He had a little mishap in the shower,” Roberts said. “It swelled up a little bit. Not able to play tonight."

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Freeman is considered day to day, and will be re-evaluated Tuesday.

Monday will already mark the third game Freeman has missed this season. During the team’s season-opening trip to Tokyo, he was held out of both games against the Chicago Cubs after feeling discomfort in his left ribs — in the same area he battled his other postseason injury last year, broken rib cartilage — during pregame batting practice on opening day.

While Freeman was able to return from that issue once the team returned home, his ankle had still been less than 100% even before Saturday’s shower incident. It’s part of the reason why the team decided to exercise caution with Freeman on Monday; even though the former Braves star has hit .299 with 12 RBIs in 20 games against his old team since signing with the Dodgers in 2022, and was in a “good spot” with his swing coming out of Saturday’s game, as Roberts acknowledged.

“He feels that he could go out there and play,” Roberts added. “But just the upside-downside, doing the math, just let him recoup today, and we'll see how he is tomorrow."

With Freeman out of the lineup, Kiké Hernández was slated to start at first base. It marked Hernández's first game since the Tokyo Series because of a stomach illness that sidelined him for the team’s sweep of the Tigers last weekend.

Torpedoes incoming

Dodgers players and coaches were just as surprised as the rest of the baseball world upon learning of the bowling-pin-shaped “torpedo” bats that some New York Yankees players were using last weekend, when they mashed a whopping 15 home runs in a three-game sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers.

But by Monday, intrigue in the new bat design was high among the team, with several players noting they already had orders for their own torpedo bats on the way.

“I mean, it sounds interesting,” co-hitting coach Robert Van Scoyoc said. “I think guys will try it. I mean, how do you not, right? You see those kinds of outcomes, of course.”

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Third baseman Max Muncy is one of the Dodgers hitters planning to experiment with the new design — in which the fattest part of the barrel is moved closer to the handle to increase contact quality on swings that before would have jammed a hitter.

He said he had some coming on an overnight shipment, and was excited to see what he hoped might be a rare “major innovation” in bat design.

“For me, it’s exciting just because there hasn’t been much of this,” Muncy said, noting that outside of the wood types and handle variations, bats have largely remained unchanged over the history of the sport.

“They had 100 different bat models [already], shaped this way, shaped that way,” he added. “But nothing’s ever been as drastic as what this is.”

Muncy nonetheless had questions about the torpedo bats, which were designed by an MIT-educated former physics professor who worked for the Yankees the past several seasons.

In his own swing, Muncy noted, he typically hits the ball closer to the end of the bat; a place where, on the torpedo design, the barrel tapers off.

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“This might actually be a detriment to me,” he laughed.

Still, he noted that the mere idea of a potentially major technological breakthrough for hitters was welcome news; especially given the advancements pitchers have made over the last decade using technology and biometrics to learn to throw harder.

“If this is something that truly works, I think it’s exciting for the game of baseball, for the offensive side,” he said. “I’m just intrigued by all of it.”

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The Mets finally flexed their muscles at the plate on Monday night, as a huge fifth-inning rally lifted them to a 10-4 win over the divison-rival Miami Marlins at loanDepot Park.

Here are some takeaways...

-- Juan Soto produced the Mets' lone hit in Saturday's loss to the Houston Astros, and the superstar slugger naturally arrived in Miami ready to swing. He ripped a 106-mph single in the first inning that ate up Marlins infielder Otto Lopez and rolled into right field. No rally ensued, however.

-- The good news for the Mets is that David Peterson's first inning of the season featured three strikeouts with sharp fastballs and sliders. The bad news is that he sandwiched a mistake pitch in between the outs, as Lopez crushed a sinker to right for a no-doubt solo home run. Peterson allowed just one first-inning run across 21 starts in 2024.

-- The Mets' early struggles with runners in scoring position made the trip to Miami. After a leadoff double from Mark Vientos in the second, Marlins starter Cal Quantrill managed to avoid trouble by inducing a pair of groundouts and a flyout. Peterson also worked out of a second-inning jam that began with two walks and ended with two more punchouts.

-- Due to the birth of his third child, Francisco Lindor was out of the starting lineup, and Starling Marte was called upon to bat leadoff for the first time since 2022. The decision paid off in the third inning, as the veteran outfielder smacked a game-tying solo shot to left-center. Before the game, Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said he chose Marte as the DH over lefty Jesse Winker because the right-handed Quantrill is a reverse-splits pitcher.

-- Peterson was bailed out in the fourth with some defensive help. The first highlight play belonged to Soto, who swiftly tracked down a fly slicing down the right field line with a runner on first and nobody out. Moments later, Peterson induced a grounder that turned into a sharp 3-6-3 double play from Pete Alonso and Luisangel Acuña.

-- New York's lineup finally busted out in the fifth. After a leadoff infield single from Acuña, an RBI double to right-center from Jose Siri gave them a 2-1 lead. Then, with the bases loaded and no outs, Alonso provided clutch power against Quantrill with a grand slam to right-center for his first homer of the season.

-- The hit parade didn't end with Alonso's jack, either. With one on and one out, Luis Torrens drilled a ball deep to center that deflected off of Derek Hall's glove and surprisingly landed over the wall for a two-run blast. The Mets brought 11 batters to the plate for a seven-run fifth inning. Suffice to say, it was sight for sore eyes.

-- Brandon Nimmo, the only Met without a hit through five innings, joined the party in the sixth with a two-run homer to center that bumped the lead to 10-1. The run support was more than enough for Peterson, who in spite of allowing another solo shot in the sixth, completed the half-dozen frames with a laudable nine strikeouts. The southpaw gave up five hits and three walks on 89 pitches.

-- The Mets maintained their early bullpen dominance. Huascar Brazobán made his second appearance in relief this season, completing the seventh and eighth innings with a pair of strikeouts across 28 pitches. Danny Young ultimately closed the door in the ninth but gave up a pair of runs. The bullpen's streak without an earned run allowed ended at 12.1 innings.

Game MVPs: Pete Alonso and David Peterson

When the Mets' hopes of scoring in the second inning were dashed, their early season average with runners in scoring position was .083 (2-for-24). Alonso's grand slam couldn't have come at a more opportune time. It broke the game wide open and lifted any tension that players might've been feeling. Peterson's season debut was also worthy of praise -- he struck out nine only once last season.

Highlights

Juan Soto rips a 105.9 mph single 💥 pic.twitter.com/baIBto9hEB

— SNY (@SNYtv) March 31, 2025

David Peterson gets a pair of strikeouts to escape trouble in the 2nd inning.

5 of Peterson's first 6 outs have been strikeouts pic.twitter.com/OUv7xu9QwX

— SNY (@SNYtv) March 31, 2025

Starling Marte launches his first homer of the season! pic.twitter.com/rDbbnCHtzo

— SNY (@SNYtv) March 31, 2025

Juan Soto makes the catch on the run! pic.twitter.com/iOgpPbCqch

— SNY (@SNYtv) March 31, 2025

Jose Siri with his first double and RBI as a Met! pic.twitter.com/BFJsODe3SO

— SNY (@SNYtv) March 31, 2025

PETE ALONSO GRAND SLAM!!!!! pic.twitter.com/a2m1nbv3Y7

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 1, 2025

Luis Torrens' ball hits off of Derek Hill's leaping glove for a homer! pic.twitter.com/j8AdXB62er

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 1, 2025

Brandon Nimmo clubs the Mets' fourth homer of the night! pic.twitter.com/3TURBqPsu7

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 1, 2025

David Peterson with his 9th strikeout of the night! pic.twitter.com/fW6X9tfZ7G

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 1, 2025

Upcoming schedule

The Mets (2-2) will play the middle game of their three-game series in South Florida on Tuesday night, with first pitch scheduled for 6:40 p.m.

Kodai Senga is slated to make his highly anticipated season debut, opposite Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara.