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New York Post
11-07-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Mets fall completely flat again as Orioles sweep doubleheader
BALTIMORE — Kodai Senga and Sean Manaea are scheduled for a return to the mound with the Mets this weekend, lessening the likelihood the team will have to endure the kind of sloppiness that defined Thursday evening. Brandon Waddell and Justin Hagenman were utilized in a piggyback pitching appearance for Game 2 of a doubleheader, and neither had nearly enough success recording outs in a 7-3 loss to the Orioles at Camden Yards. That beatdown occurred hours after David Peterson pitched superbly into the eighth, but watched Ryne Stanek blow the save in a 3-1 loss in Game 1. Advertisement 4 Alex Jackson celebrates after driving in a run during the Orioles' 7-3 win over the Mets in Game 2 of a split doubleheader on July 10, 2025. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect So much for the momentum that followed two victories in three games in the Subway Series last weekend and a comeback win against these Orioles on Tuesday. The Mets were flat offensively in the doubleheader — they went a combined 2-for-19 with runners in scoring position — and simply were overmatched by a team that began the day 10 games below .500. Advertisement But with Senga and his 1.47 ERA scheduled for a return on Friday in Kansas City and Manaea, last year's ace, slated to pitch as part of a piggyback with Clay Holmes on Sunday for his season debut, the Mets have a tangible reason to believe a strong final series before the All-Star game is attainable. Wadell started the nightcap and pitched three innings in which he surrendered three earned runs on four hits with one walk. Hagenman piggybacked Waddell and allowed three runs, two of which were earned, over two innings. 4 Brandon Waddell pitches during the second inning of the Mets' Game 2 loss to the Orioles. Getty Images Advertisement Brandon Nimmo and Francisco Lindor opened the game with a single and double, respectively, allowing the Mets to take a 2-0 lead on Juan Soto's RBI ground out and Pete Alonso's sacrifice fly. Waddell flushed the lead in the third, when Jordan Westburg's two-run homer gave the Orioles a 3-2 lead. Alex Jackson doubled in a run before Westburg cleared the fence in left center. Cedric Mullins' double began the inning. CHECK OUT THE LATEST MLB STANDINGS AND METS STATS Colton Cowser delivered an RBI single in the fourth against Hagenman and Brett Baty's fielding error brought in the Orioles' fifth run. Hagenman and Richard Lovelady each allowed a run in the sixth. Advertisement Game 1 included a potential Mets casualty: Jesse Winker was removed after his first at-bat with back tightness, only two days removed from his return from the injured list following an oblique strain. Winker returned to New York for an MRI exam. 4 Jordan Westburg (right) is greeted by catcher Alex Jackson (70) following his two run home run during the second inning of the Mets' Game 2 loss to the Orioles. Mitch Stringer-Imagn Images Negated was a strong performance by Peterson on a day he learned he had been selected to the NL All-Star team as a roster replacement for Robbie Ray. The left-hander pitched into the eighth and allowed one earned run on five hits with six strikeouts. But manager Carlos Mendoza removed Peterson at 90 pitches after he surrendered a leadoff single to Cowser in the eighth and disaster followed: Stanek fell behind 2-1 to the pinch-hitter Gunnar Henderson, who unloaded for his 11th homer of the season. Stanek proceeded to walk the bases loaded before Ramon Laureano's sacrifice fly gave the Orioles an insurance run. Delivering insights on all things Amazin's Sign up for Inside the Mets by Mike Puma, exclusively on Sports+ Thank you Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Enjoy this Post Sports+ exclusive newsletter! Check out more newsletters '[Peterson] got through the seventh and with the lefty leading off, I knew it was going to be batter-to-batter,' Mendoza said of his decision to remove his starter. Mendoza added that he felt better with the idea of Stanek facing the Orioles' lefty pinch-hitters than Peterson against the right-handers. 4 Juan Soto tosses his bat after being walked by by Tomoyuki Sugano during the fourth inning of the Mets' Game 2 loss to the Orioles. AP Advertisement 'We can sit here and talk about it all we want, but at the end of the day we didn't execute offensively,' Mendoza said. Peterson said he wasn't surprised to get removed after allowing the leadoff single in the eighth — Mendoza had told him he would be aggressive in his approach to the inning. Even so, Peterson would have liked the opportunity to continue. 'I felt like I was in a good spot pitch wise and I felt great physically,' Peterson said. 'I figured he would give me a chance [after the leadoff single] or come to talk to me and see if I need a double play. But he made it clear that he was going to be aggressive and so I wasn't surprised when he came out and made the signal.' Advertisement Stanek said mechanics were at the root of his meltdown. 'Based on what I have seen so far I just got pretty rotational,' Stanek said. 'I wasn't really staying on-line.'
New York Post
10-07-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Justin Hagenman ready for chance to be a Mets hero — however it comes
Access the Mets beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets. Try it free BALTIMORE — Justin Hagenman is new enough to the MLB scene that each pitching appearance for the Mets can be considered a learning experience. There were multi-inning appearances against the Twins and Braves, but last week he was thrust into the spotlight as the Mets starter to open the Subway Series. The right-hander got jumped early, but ultimately helped keep the Mets from folding in a comeback victory. Hagenman allowed consecutive homers to Jasson Domínguez and Aaron Judge in the first inning before getting the Mets into the fifth with four earned runs allowed. 'It's just knowing that no matter how it starts I have the stuff to compete,' Hagenman said Wednesday before the Mets game against the Orioles at Camden Yards was postponed by weather. 'It's not how you want to start but kind of settle in and still have the stuff to go through the lineup again.' The Mets have to survive a final day before the rotation reinforcements begin arriving. It's the 28-year-old Hagenman they are expected to look toward in Thursday's doubleheader nightcap — either as a starter or behind an opener — provided he isn't needed from the bullpen in the opening game. Kodai Senga is scheduled to return from the injured list on Friday to start in Kansas City and Sean Manaea's season debut is set for Sunday as part of a piggyback with Clay Holmes. Justin Hagenman #51 of the New York Mets reacts after Jasson Domínguez #24 of the New York Yankees hits a solo home run. Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post Hagenman, who arrived on a major league contract last offseason for the purpose of providing rotation depth, has pitched to a 4.35 ERA in his three appearances. 'When I signed I was just hoping to get a shot, to get an opportunity to help the team up here and I have,' Hagenman said. 'It's been nice just to be an option for the guys up here, you never know when it might be.' Hagenman spent two weeks on the injured list in early May at Triple-A Syracuse with a finger injury and returned with better velocity and command of his pitches than the Mets saw earlier in the season, according to pitching coach Jeremy Hefner. Justin Hagenman #51 of the New York Mets throws a pitch against the Yankees. Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post 'He got a little two-week blow and ever since then he's come back, he is throwing harder,' Hefner said. 'It feels like the slider is firmer and that is helping. The cutter is in a good spot and the changeup has always been his calling card and that is showing very well. He is a high-command guy. He is going to put the ball in the zone, he is going to live on the corners and he's going to be able to kind of navigate games.' Hagenman's resolve to keep the Mets in last Friday's game against the Yankees impressed Hefner. 'That speaks to his demeanor,' Hefner said. 'He can be feeling things inside, but it doesn't manifest externally.' Hagenman grew up near Philadelphia, in Voorhees, N.J., and attended a game at Camden Yards in his youth. In that sense he will be living another dream should he get to pitch. Hagenman said he will have several friends and family members in attendance. Last month he was recalled to the Mets for a potential start in Philadelphia, but he was needed in a relief appearance against the Braves a night earlier, removing him from consideration for the assignment. 'There were going to be a lot of ticket requests on that one,' Hagenman said. 'But pitching in Atlanta was cool, against that lineup which is pretty awesome too. It was a win-win. Any time you get to pitch up here it's a win.'
New York Times
17-04-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
As a Mets rookie makes his long-shot MLB debut, the scout who signed him is beating his own odds
His speech isn't all the way back. But the excitement in his voice was palpable, practically bursting through the phone. 'Awesome,' Jonah Rosenthal kept saying this week when asked about New York Mets right-hander Justin Hagenman. 'Really awesome.' Rosenthal, 35, is an area scouting supervisor for the Los Angeles Dodgers who suffered a large stroke on Dec. 10. Doctors initially told his wife, Lindsey, that in the best-case scenario, he would never regain mobility on his right side, never speak or understand speech again. Advertisement 'They didn't think he would make it through the day,' Lindsey said. Rosenthal (no relation to a co-writer of this story) continues to defy his doctors' expectations. And on Wednesday, he experienced the kind of thrill amateur scouts relish like none other. The thrill of watching a player he signed overcome the odds to make his major-league debut. Hagenman, 28, was the Dodgers' 23rd-round pick out of Penn State in 2018. His $75,000 signing bonus was a relative pittance compared to what top picks command. But after seven years in the minors, he struck out three of his first four hitters in his first appearance for the Mets and held down 3 1/3 innings as a bulk reliever. The only run charged to him in a 4-3, extra-innings loss to the Minnesota Twins came after he left the game in the fifth inning. Rosenthal, who joined the Dodgers 10 years ago, also was the scout behind the 2018 selections of first baseman Michael Busch, now with the Chicago Cubs, and right-hander Michael Grove, who is inactive for the Dodgers this season after undergoing shoulder surgery. Left-hander Garrett McDaniels, currently with the Los Angeles Angels as a Rule 5 draft pick, is another of Rosenthal's major leaguers, a non-drafted free agent the scout signed out of Coastal Carolina for $20,000 in 2022. In the case of Busch, Rosenthal downplayed his own role, saying, 'It's a top prospect. First rounder. OK, it's cool.' Hagenman, on the other hand, was picked in a round that no longer exists. Major League Baseball and the Players Association in 2021 reduced the draft to 20 rounds. It was 40 rounds from 2012 to '19. Talking about Hagenman, Rosenthal kept coming back to the word 'ingenuity,' citing the way the pitcher lowered his arm slot and developed different shapes on his breaking ball. Hagenman, who signed with the Mets as a free agent in November, said he still talks with Rosenthal a couple of times a year. Advertisement 'He texted me last night,' Hagenman said. 'I love Jonah. He's stayed in touch the whole time. I obviously wouldn't be here without him signing me. 'Obviously when you're not a top-round guy, not everybody sees you as a potential major leaguer. The fact that he saw that early, that he saw me as someone with value, means a lot.' Congrats to Justin Hagenman for recording his first career strikeout! — New York Mets (@Mets) April 16, 2025 Rosenthal's stroke occurred at 4 a.m., inside his home in Raleigh, N.C. He woke up by falling out of bed. He struggled to respond to Lindsey. He had suffered a dissection in the carotid artery running down the left side of his neck. As described by Johns Hopkins Medicine, 'a dissection is a tear in the inner layer of the wall of an artery. The tear lets blood get in between the layers of the wall and separate them. This causes the artery wall to bulge, and the bulge can slow or stop blood flow through the artery.' No one knows why the dissection happened to Jonah. Perhaps, the Rosenthals were told, it was the lasting effect of an old sports injury. Perhaps a cough Jonah and Lindsey caught from their 2-year-old daughter, Harper, triggered an issue in his neck. 'We'll never have the definitive answer,' Lindsey said. Jonah's artery, Lindsey said, fully closed. His stroke occurred after a piece of plaque broke off and went to his brain, Lindsey said. The dissection prevented doctors at the Raleigh campus of WakeMed Hospital from accessing his brain during surgery or inserting a stent to open the artery. Jonah was intubated and sedated for five days in intensive care, the goal to minimize his swelling. 'The stroke just had to run its course,' Lindsey said. As soon as Jonah awakened from sedation, he began occupational, physical and speech therapy. He received a day pass from the hospital to go home on Christmas Day. On Jan. 7, nearly one month after his stroke, he was discharged for good. Advertisement Recently, Jonah passed the four-month mark. The dexterity in the right side of his body has returned. A droop that occasionally surfaced on the right side of his face is gone. His speech, Lindsey said, is progressing 'wonderfully.' But Jonah remains in a critical stage. 'Every stroke is different. They can only give us very loose guidelines. The first six months are the most critical,' Lindsey said. 'What is regained in the first six months pretty much determines what the outlook will be for the rest of his life. You can gain some more up to a year. But at the one-year mark, that's really where you're going to be.' Lindsey recalls her initial conversation with doctors — the one in which she was told that, best case, Jonah would never move his right side or speak or understand speech again — as the hardest of her life. 'He has vastly exceeded those expectations,' she said. 'At this point, he's really writing his own future.' For Jonah, the future can't wait. His occupational therapists cleared him to resume driving, and he is taking trips of 30 minutes or less. To Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina State. To the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, N.C. So far, he said he has attended about 10 games. 'I want to be with scouts. I really want to talk to scouts,' he said. The Dodgers, the Rosenthals said, have been fully supportive. 'Oh my God, down the line,' Jonah said, rattling off the names of executives who contacted him: president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman, general manager Brandon Gomes, vice president of baseball operations Billy Gasparino, director of amateur scouting Zach Fitzpatrick. Gasparino said the efforts of Friedman and team president Stan Kasten were 'fantastic.' 'We have guaranteed his salary and medical bills for the year,' Gasparino said. 'We have filled in with internal scouts to take care of all his scouting duties for the year. Now we are slowly trying to get him out to games as his comfort level allows. We are hoping he can work for us again. Either way, I would bet we take care of him no matter what.' A post shared by Blue Madness (@dodgers2080) The support for the Rosenthals extends far beyond the Dodgers. The scouting community is tight-knit. A GoFundMe for the family has raised more than $100,000. Jonah, who previously worked as an intern for the Philadelphia Phillies, Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees, said people from all 30 clubs have been in touch. Then came Wednesday, and the pure elation Rosenthal experienced with Hagenman's debut. Hagenman rose to Triple A with the Dodgers, but before the 2023 trade deadline was sent to the Boston Red Sox as part of a package for super-utility man Kiké Hernández. He became a minor-league free agent at the end of last season when the Red Sox did not include him on their 40-man roster. The Mets signed him to a major-league contract on Nov. 18 that pays him a prorated $850,000 while he is on their roster. Advertisement Rosenthal could not stop gushing over the way Hagenman persevered through his journey, team by team, year by year. Hagenman, in turn, smiled widely Wednesday upon learning that his promotion provided Rosenthal with some joy. 'Nothing but the best for him,' Hagenman said. 'He saw something in me that let me get drafted and get into professional baseball. Just the fact that I could prove him right is huge.' The survivor of a stroke who was never supposed to speak again used the same word to describe Hagenman's performance that he did to celebrate his ascent. It's a word, of course, that also applies to his own recovery. 'Awesome.' (Photo of Hagenman: Matt Krohn / Imagn Images)
New York Times
15-04-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Mets scratch Griffin Canning. Does this open the door later this week for Brandon Sproat?
MINNEAPOLIS — New York Mets right-hander Griffin Canning will not make his scheduled start on Wednesday afternoon because of an illness. That has thrown New York's rotation plans into further flux for the rest of the week and affects whether the team will call on top pitching prospect Brandon Sproat to make his major-league debut in this weekend's series against the St. Louis Cardinals. Advertisement Let's explain the conundrum. What had been the plan? Before Canning felt sick, the Mets expected to add a sixth starter to their rotation for Friday night's contest against St. Louis. That would keep Canning and David Peterson on regular rest the next two days and give Kodai Senga his extra day of rest between starts. The Mets had three choices at Triple-A Syracuse to call up: Sproat, Justin Hagenman or José Ureña. What's the plan now for Wednesday? The Mets haven't settled yet on whether they'll use a traditional starter or a bullpen game for the series finale against the Twins. It depends on how heavily they lean on the pen on Tuesday night. In either case, Sproat and Ureña are both off the table to be recalled for that game because they would be pitching on short rest. Hagenman is penciled in to start Wednesday for Syracuse, so he makes sense to either start for the Mets or serve as length out of the pen. Brandon Sproat shows off his full repertoire for the Triple-A @SyracuseMets 🧰 The @Mets' top prospect notches 6 K's on four different pitches, while navigating 4 1/3 one-run innings. — MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) April 13, 2025 What does Jose Siri's injury have to do with this? Although Siri was diagnosed with a fractured tibia on Monday night, he still hadn't been placed on the injured list Tuesday afternoon, with the Mets opting to play a man short on the bench rather than bringing up another outfielder. They might play short again on Wednesday. Why? Because in order to call up a pitcher like Hagenman for Wednesday, the Mets will have to send down a reliever who's been pitching quite well — probably Huascar Brazobán or Max Kranick. And a pitcher that gets sent down to the minors has to spend 15 days there, unless he's recalled to replace a player going to the injured list. Advertisement So, say the Mets call up Hagenman and send down Brazobán for Wednesday's game. They can then bring Brazobán right back for Thursday's game by waiting to place Siri on the IL until then. There would be a corresponding move to call up an outfielder, likely José Azocar, with Hagenman being sent back to Syracuse to balance out the roster. When will Canning be able to pitch? That's the other uncertain aspect here. Right now, the Mets believe Canning should be able to pitch no later than Friday, which would allow them to keep the rest of their rotation in order. However, if Canning can't go by then, New York will need to bring up another starter (and perhaps place Canning on the 15-day IL). That's where Sproat can come into the equation. He's currently slated to start Thursday for Syracuse, so he'd only be on one extra day of rest to go Friday. And especially if Canning needs an IL stint, Sproat would stick in the rotation for more than one start. Like last year with Christian Scott, the Mets are more apt to call up a pitching prospect if there's a longer runway to give him multiple starts. Even if Sproat doesn't make his debut this week, he's likely to be needed in the majors before long. After this week, the Mets will need a sixth starter again by the first week of May. It would be a surprise if veteran Paul Blackburn is ready for a return by then, so New York will likely be sifting through the same candidates then as now, with the possible addition of prospect Blade Tidwell. (Photo of Sproat: Jim Rassol / Imagn Images)
