NY Post · Jun 15, 2019
Second chance was as bad as the first for Mets’ closer
Edwin DiazLess than 24 hours later, it didn’t get any better for Edwin Diaz.
After blowing a two-run lead in the top of the ninth inning Thursday night in a game that was subsequently suspended, the Mets’ closer doubled down on the damage and gave up the go-ahead run in the top of the 10th after play resumed Friday for a 5-4 loss to the Cardinals.
“[Thursday] night was just a bad night,” Diaz said after he was unavailable to pitch in the second game, when the Mets bullpen blew another late lead in a 9-5 loss. “Today I was making the pitches I wanted, I was executing the pitches, but they got those hits and they scored the winning run.”