Naturally, the Mets lost the game, too.
With a pall cast over the entire organization by the news that Matt Harvey's season is likely over and the ominous specter of possible Tommy John surgery putting his 2014 campaign in jeopardy, the Mets, despite a strong pitching effort by rookie Zack Wheeler, ran their losing streak to five games, falling to the Phillies and Cliff Lee, 2-1, at Citi Field.
"The entire day was difficult all around," said manager Terry Collins, whose Mets lost a Wheeler start for the first time since Aug. 4, having won eight of the rookie's last nine rotation appearances.
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Zack Wheeler leaves the game in the seventh inning last night after giving up two earned runs while striking out seven. He was bested by Cliff Lee and the Phillies though in a 2-1 loss in Queens.
And when Wheeler hit the magical 105-pitch mark with two outs in the seventh, Collins wasted no time in bolting from the dugout.
"We said before the game 105 was the limit and obviously after what happened earlier today, we're sticking with it," Collins said.
And so Wheeler fell to 6-3 despite surrendering just five hits and two earned runs while striking out seven. He would have like to stay a bit longer but…
"It's definitely going to be a while before any of us get back up [to a high pitch count]. It's not their fault. It's just human when their best pitcher goes down to [a partially torn elbow ligament]," Wheeler said. "It's part of the game and I understand it."
Wheeler worked perfect innings in the first, third, fifth and sixth. The fourth inning was the troublesome one — and with two outs he gave up a single, walk and two-run triple to rookie Cody Asche.
"When they scored all those runs I was leaking out over the plate," he said.
"All those runs" mans two. Which seems a lot when the offense again was dormant as Lee (11-6) gave up a defensively challenged double to Marlon Byrd (two outfielders watched the ball drop) and an RBI single to Andrew Brown in the second. End Mets scoring. Too bad because Wheeler was good, growing in confidence since his call up.
"His demeanor," said fellow rookie Travis d'Arnaud, who caught Wheeler in the minors, as representing the biggest change in the righty. "The look in his eye looks way different. It's something little but I see it. He's like a bulldog attacking."
For 105 pitches.
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