Blue Jays unravel late as Mets rally to spoil Bassitt’s gem against former team
Chris Bassitt fought through a biting wind and swirling mist to strike out nine over 6.2 scoreless frames before what appeared to be a good night for the Blue Jays unravelled into a stunning loss to the Mets.
NEW YORK — The first thing about playing behind Chris Bassitt that comes to mind for Francisco Lindor?
“He shook a lot. The game was very slow – he always made the pace his own,” the superstar New York Mets shortstop said with a grin about his 2022 teammate. “He’d take the ball every five days and if the team needed more, he’d do that too. He always has a game-plan, understands the game, understands situations. He’s a great competitor, he doesn’t back down from anybody, and he brings people together.”
Thanks to PitchCom and the pitch clock, the first part of that statement no longer applies to Bassitt, but the rest of it still holds true for the 36-year-old Toronto Blue Jays right-hander, who once again returned to Citi Field to work over his former team.
Under less stressful circumstances than June 2, 2023, when he threw 7.2 shutout innings before boarding a flight to join his wife Jessica who’d gone into labour, Bassitt this time fought through a biting wind and swirling mist to strike out nine over 6.2 scoreless frames before what appeared to be a good night for the Blue Jays unravelled into a stunning 3-2 loss.
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Yimi García took over with one on, two out and a 2-0 lead in the seventh and allowed a hit and a walk to load the bases before getting pinch-hitter Starling Marte on a groundout to escape the jam. But manager John Schneider brought in Brendon Little for the top of the Mets lineup in the eighth and the lefty wasn’t as fortunate, walking Lindor on four pitches and allowing a Juan Soto single to open the frame before Jesse Winker turned on a hanging curveball for a game-tying, two-run triple.
Making it all the more costly is that George Springer, reaching up to try and snag the drive, got turned around and crashed front-first into the right-field wall. He fell to the ground, got up to throw the ball in and then dropped again, eventually needing the help of trainer Jose Ministral and Schneider to walk off the field.
Nick Sandlin replaced Little and struck out Mark Vientos to escape the eighth but after Edwin Díaz struck out both Anthony Santander and Andrés Giménez after one-out singles by Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to end the top of the ninth, Sandlin issued a one-out walk to Jose Siri and a wild pitch advanced him to second before a Luis Torrens single.
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Schneider turned to Jeff Hoffman at that point and Lindor’s line drive into centre field was deep enough to score the winning run before a crowd of 37,694.
The late leverage drama was in stark contrast to the way Bassitt kept the game under his thumb.
He stranded a Lindor leadoff double in the first and a Winker double to open the second, cruising through the next four innings before leaving after a two-out Vientos single in the seventh, allowing only four hits with the nine strikeouts.
Guerrero opened the scoring with an RBI single in the fifth off José Buttó, who was trying to clean up Griffin Canning’s mess but ended loading the bases only to get Alejandro Kirk swinging and Springer on a groundout to limit the damage.
Bichette’s two-out RBI double in the sixth made it a 2-0 game.
