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The Mets have promoted RHP Tyler Pill to the big-league roster and sent RHP Rafael Montero back to Triple-A to Las Vegas, the team announced prior to Friday's game. To make room on the 40-man roster for Pill, who wear No. 56 and be available for Friday's game, RHP Seth Lugo was moved to the 60-Day Disabled List. Pill, who turns 27 on Monday, was 4-1 with a 1.60 ERA in nine combined starts between Triple-A and Double-A this season. He allowed 51 hits, issued 15 walks and struck out 26 batters.RHP Tyler Pill during Mets spring training 2015 (Photo: Adam Rubin, Twitter) Pill, who turns 27 on Monday, is in his fourth consecutive season appearing at the Triple-A level for the Mets. He had a 7.00 ERA Continue to Article

May 26, 2017 11:05:am EST

The Mets were 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position Thursday night and managed to score only three runs against the last-place Padres and Dinelson Lamet, who was making his big-league debut. Lamet allowed just one run and three hits in five innings, while racking up eight strikeouts in his debut, including three against Michael Conforto. "It's definitely frustrating," Conforto said after the game about the team's production. The Mets put two men on base with no outs in both the fifth and sixth inning, but were unable to score in either frame. "We had a number of guys on base, but similar to [Wednesday] night in the ninth inning we just couldn't get a hit," Terry Collins later added... Matthew Continue to Article

May 26, 2017 10:30:am EST

After being notified three and a half hours before the game that he would be starting, Rafael Montero struggled mightily against the Padres, picking up his fourth loss of the season. Montero threw 87 pitches in only three innings, allowing three runs and five hits. The 26-year old walked three batters, all in the first inning, which helped lead to San Diego jumping out to an early 2-0 lead. Montero needed 45 pitches to get through the first inning.  "I struggled a bit in that first inning, but after that I started feeling better," Montero told reporters after the game, according to the NY Post.May 25, 2017: Montero throws a pitch at Citi Field (Credit: USA Today Images) Montero is now 0-4 with Continue to Article

May 26, 2017 9:30:am EST

The Mets (19-26) travel to Pittsburgh and begin a three-game series Friday night with the Pirates (22-26) at PNC Park at 7:10 p.m. Jacob deGrom (3-1, 4.56) will be pitching with an extra day of rest after the Mets bumped his start a day to avoid a possible rain-shortened outing on Thursday. In his last start, he allowed no runs on four hits in seven innings against the Angels... Chad Kuhl (1-4, 5.85 ERA) will start for the Pirates. In his previous start, he tossed five innings of one-hit ball against the Phillies on Sunday. NL East Standings Upcoming Schedule In Case You Missed It The Mets dropped the rubber game of a three-game series with the Padres on Thursday, 4-3. Rafael Montero was only Continue to Article

May 26, 2017 6:20:am EST

NEW YORK -- With a bundle of key players on the disabled list, Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said Friday the team is making some changes to the way it handles injuries. Alderson is now meeting daily with the training staff, something he hasn't always done in the past. The front office also is communicating often with its "resources" in Port St. Lucie, Florida, at the team's spring training complex. He said he's having the meetings "to provide context for the decisions that we have to make from day to day based on information that not only arises that day, but may have been sort of gestating over a period of days." Alderson also said that bigger changes could still be made, but those "might Continue to Article

May 26, 2017 12:45:am EST