Taking into account that the weather, bitterly cold and windy, the winter vests were in all Citi Field, Wednesday’s game could be an atypical case for the rest of the Tylor Megill season.
But the beginning remembered the type of pitcher that Megill has or legs in his career of the Mets: difficult to hit and, sometimes, difficult to carry a list for an amount of time.
Megill was wild and unpleasant, in that order, through a strange 5-0 defeat against the Marlins in which the first eight pitches were balls.
“The first entry was difficult,” Megill acknowledged, but it was also a goals without goals because he has that caliber of things.
After the walking pair, Megill found the attack zone and struck out three of the next four batters, leaving the bases loaded but require 28 launches to escape.
It is very possible that Megill had trouble grabbing the ball in the elements, but said he felt good and refused to blame the weather.
“Definitely, son of a search day today,” Megill said after he lasted only four tickets in which he was accused of two races, both not won. “Mechanics really didn’t feel very good.”
While explaining it, his delivery had slowed against the first batters of the game, leaving his arm out of synchronization and resulting in too many launches on the side of the arm.
He accelerated his delivery and corrected himself, but was not consistent enough to sit efficiently to Marlins’ batters.
Megill launched the fifth, when two singles and a ball of earth that Brett Bitch was sent to the air to Francisco Lindor combined for an unwanted race, and after 90 launches ended.
He walked three, fell six singles and struck out Seven, which helped him usually navigate by danger.
“It simply couldn’t make a duration,” said Manager Carlos Mendoza, who had to ask Max Kranick, Ryne Stanek, Huascar Brazobán, Edwin Díaz and Danny Young for the last five tickets. “Things when I was in the area were good.”
Through three openings, Megill has an effectiveness of 0.63 and has averaged better than a punch per entrance.
But it has totaled only 14 entries ¹/₃, going like the deep axis 5 ¹/₃ entries in the victory last week over the blue joys.
Through 12 Mets games, only David Peterson has completed the sixth entry at the beginning.
The Bullpen has been excellent during the first two weeks of the season, but the Mets and Megill know that the headlines would have to take a greater load if the bullpen will survive the year.
“Obviously trying to deepen the games, give a bit to the bullpen,” Megill said.
