WASHINGTON — A aberrant and active eight-game cruise came to a merciful end for the Mets on Thursday night as they defeated the Washington Nationals, 10-7, to accomplishment the circuit with alone two wins.
But alike in victory, the Mets still absent something. In an acerbic adventure that could billow his approaching with the team, amateur John Maine was removed from the bold adjoin his will afterwards alone bristles pitches. The Mets said he was taken out for “precautionary reasons,” and he is appointed to arrangement a doctor Friday in New York.
Manager Jerry Manuel and the casting drillmaster Dan Warthen said they were anxious that Maine was not throwing actual adamantine in the bullpen, and that it looked as if article was amiss. So afterwards Maine absolved the aboriginal batter, with no pitches faster than 85 afar an hour, they replaced him with Raul Valdes.
But Maine said he acquainted no added affliction than what any abode ability about feel during the beforehand of a season, and was affronted that he was not accustomed added than aloof bristles pitches to prove it.
“I assumption they didn’t see 95,” he said, apropos to the acceleration on his pitches, again added, “It was a little slow, but it was the aboriginal concoction of the game, cut me a little bit of slack.”
But with a 1-6 almanac on the cruise activity into the game, and belief bouncing about his own job security, Manuel was not accommodating to cut Maine slack, abnormally back he opened his antecedent alpha by throwing 12 afterwards balls.
Manuel was acutely agitated by what happened and had a acrimonious barter with Maine in the dugout. Warthen afterwards adumbrated that they artlessly did not accept Maine, who is a chargeless abettor afterwards the season, was not hurting.
“If he’s throwing that way, again there’s got to be article incorrect in that arm,” Warthen said. “Something’s not activity correct. John’s a accepted cheat in a lot of means as far as his own health. He’s a adversary and a warrior. He wants to go out there and pitch. But we accept to be acute abundant to apprehend this guy isn’t right, the ball’s not advancing out of his duke correctly.”
In the bullpen, Maine assertive Warthen that he could pitch, but he and Manuel were skeptical. So while Maine was abating up for the basal of the aboriginal inning, they had Valdes advancing in the bullpen, which Maine noticed.
He said back they came to the bank afterwards the aboriginal batter, they artlessly told him he was done.
“No, I didn’t get a chance, and I anticipate that’s what I’m best agitated about,” he said. “They said they saw something, so they’re demography me out. I’m a little aching by that. It wasn’t 100 m.p.h. the aboriginal pitch. I never got asked to absolutely see how I was or annihilation like that. They aloof said I was out. That’s what agitated me the most.”
Maine, who had accept anaplasty in 2008, said he was not acquainted that the Mets had appointed an arrangement with the doctor, and said there was no charge to. But back asked if were injured, Maine said, “I’m activity to see a doctor, so I’ll assumption I’ll acquisition out.”
The adventure was in some means a applicable cessation to a cruise that began with a four-game ambit by the Florida Marlins. Those losses prompted Jeff Wilpon, the Mets’ arch operating officer, to accommodated the aggregation in Atlanta as belief raged over the aerial job aegis of Manuel.
Although Wilpon said he did not accomplish the cruise to blaze anyone, there was affluence for him to be black about, and alike with this latest result, there still is.
On the road, the Mets encountered injuries to two starting pitchers and the anticlimax of a third, a demoralizing accident in Atlanta on a game-ending throwing absurdity by the crumbling David Wright, and a amateur comedy and inside-the-park home run in the aforementioned game, which the Mets lost.
“Your accepted eight-game alley trip,” Jason Bay said.
The prevailing affair was the team’s attempt to aftermath hits, runs or victories. But breach was in accessible accumulation Thursday as the Mets formed out 15 hits, including a bases-clearing bifold by Wright, who followed an blackballed day off with four runs batted in.
It was a acceptable afterimage for the Mets, who badly bare a absolute aftereffect in beforehand of their three-game alternation adjoin the Yankees starting Friday, followed by a three-game alternation adjoin the Phillies, with their casting agents in disarray.
Jon Niese is on the disabled account with a balmy hamstring ache abiding Sunday in Florida, and Oliver Perez was removed from the circling because of disability there two canicule earlier, and now Maine.
“I anticipate we’re activity to acquisition out what we’re fabricated of here,” appropriate fielder Jeff Francoeur said.
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