#MLBVideos: Nationals vs. Mets Spring Breakout Game Highlights (3/15/24) | MLB Highlights

Nationals vs. Mets Spring Breakout Game Highlights (3/15/24) | MLB Highlights

Major league baseball is getting set for spring breakout series and some of the top players and prospects in both of these organizations going to be front and center today overall. According to major league baseball pipeline, we are going to see seven of the top 100 prospects beginning with Dylan

Cruz and James Wood of the Nationals. And Then you see Williams and how Gilbert and ryan, you are about to start your first ever met spring breakout game and you’re leading off, what are you most looking forward to, you know, just playing with all these group of guys.

We have a great group of kids out here and, you know, just learning from one another, you know, just going out there and playing baseball, your natural position is shortstop, but you played a handful of games in the outfield last year. You even played in center field in a minor league game yesterday.

What is the transition like playing infield to outfield? I mean, I feel like it’s pretty easy. I played outfield before in high school, so the transition wasn’t really that bad. There’s a little different parts I think for me, outfielders almost more relaxed and everything in the infield. You just have to always be

Thinking of what’s going on and what’s happening next. 25 starts last year in Binghamton, Gary 124 innings, only 108 hits allowed 160 strikes. Cruz is four for 26 in Great League play two doubles and AAA home run in four RBIs breaking ball lined to center field

That’s going to drop in on a hop , a base hit in front of the center fielder Jet Williams and Dylan Cruz aboard with a solid single to center field and bring up James Wood, the number two prospect of the Nationals organization in there for a called strike three for a

Strikeout of the afternoon for Tom Hamill as Wood takes a seat and that brings up the third baseman Brady House. You see that quick delivery, staying back nice, swung on and missed and down goes Brady House. And so back to back strikeouts here for Tom Hami Hami, the 02

Pitch skied into right field, Gilbert losing it in the sun trying to pick it up and I think he does. Yes, indeed. So the leadoff single by Cruz and Then Hamel working his way through it good first inning for Tom and it will be right hander Jackson Rutledge to pitch here

In the first innings, made four starts for the Nationals last year late in the season, one and one. Jet Williams leads it off here for the Mets. I’ve heard the comparisons to dustin Pedroia swing and a miss actually a foul tip back into the glove of catcher Drew Millis for strike three.

Drew Gilbert steps in here for the Mets. Gilbert coming over from the Astros in the Justin Verlander traded the deadline. He figures to be in the Mets outfield at some point in the near future. That one into right field wood shading his eyes from the sun

And he loses it in the sun and it drops in and Gilbert on his way to second base with a stand up double James Wood, not as familiar in this field. It’s a tough outfield for fly balls. It’s an E nine. This is ryan Clifford now who’s

At first base for the Mets in this game. Also coming over in the Verlander trade slashes one the opposite way that’s down for a base hit and the Mets have the first run of the game. Gilbert scores Clifford on his way to check it with an RB I

Double and the Mets lead it 1 to 0 exactly what you want to see here. This type of approach to pitch up and away fastball about 95 miles an hour, but catches a lot of the plate and Clifford, a lot of scouts talk about his advanced approach and his

Ability to hit the power is there, but you like to see that going the other way. So two out a runner at third and our first look at TJ White who is the designated hitter, a switch hitter. Fifth round pick in 21. The kick in the pitch swinging a

Ball hit well to right field back goes Gilbert the right fielder, it’s over his head and off the wall on a hop scoring on the play as Lipscomb heading for second is white and he dives in head first ahead of the throw with a two out booming double

One hop off the right field wall. The nationals have tied things here in the top of the second inning. It’s the Nats one and the Mets one. Cole Henry is on the mound for the Nationals in the bottom of the second inning. Henry coming back from thoracic outlet syndrome surgery, the

Pitch fastballs right in their strike three called 95 miles an hour from Cole Henry two delivery breaking ball catches the outside corner, strike three call and the pitch swing and a miss around the fastball in on him up and in and strikes him out and Cole Henry strikes out

The side in the second inning. So first and second, nobody out here in the fourth inning for the Nationals will bring Trey lips come to the plate. Drew a four pitch walk stole a base and scored a run in the second inning. This could be two aha to second

For one on the 1st 643 double play so a big double play for Blade Tidwell as he tries to work his way out of trouble here in the fourth. So here’s TJ White. White laced a double to right there goes the runner at first and a line drive right field.

Another base hit for TJ White and another RB I morales scores over to third is Pinckney TJ. White is two for two here in the spring breakout game. He has a pair of RBS so the Mets have a runner in scoring position here in the fourth. Let’s see what Perrada can do here.

He swung first pitch last time up on a slider just popped it up to the infield through the right side. That’s a base hit for Kevin Frota Clifford around third. He’s going to score game tied at 2 to 2 good piece of hitting there from Kevin Perrada. That’s what you love there.

And so lefty, you look more away at the plate. He takes the ball well, the other way doesn’t try to over swing like he did that first at bat and he delivers a nice base hit the other way for an RB I and the Nationals are going to

Go to the big right hander 66, 235 pounder Harlene Sousa. He was a name that we heard in the Juan Soto trade. The runner bluffs at first swing and a miss he was very late and Susana gets the strikeout 11. Vargas leads off first. He takes off up the middle into

Center field for a base hit Vargas around second on his way to third and Thomas with a single and puts runners at 1st and 3rd with one out. Jeremy Rodriguez is the batter with 1st and 3rd and 1 out. Lukes one over shortstop into the field. RB I single and the Mets are

Back in front and over at third sliding in safely is Thomas and on the throw there, Rodriguez goes to second opposite field approach there for Rodriguez. A young kid goes the other way. Nice base hit into left center field. So the Mets have taken the lead here in the bottom of the fifth

Inning and they’ve got a chance to do more damage with 2nd and 3rd and just want out the infield playing in, sawed off. The infield was in and it drops in over second base. One run is in, stopping over at third is Rodriguez but per Roso

Saw it off but puts the Met in front Mets at flood 42 drew first ever met spring breakout game. What has this experience been like for you? Yeah, it’s been awesome. You know, anytime you get to come out here and compete, especially with a group of guys like this.

It’s super fun and you know, it’s a great environment. Something we’ve been told about you time and time again is how you play with your hair on fire , but I spoke with one of your college coaches right after you got traded over here and he said

That you have an off the field personality, that’s much more mellow, laid back. Always joking around. So, where do you find that balance? Yeah, I think you kind of have to, you know, especially when you do this every day, you know , and you’re at the field for a

Pretty good amount of time, You know, I’m gonna, but when I go home and I have to deal with, you know, kids like Jet Williams and luis San Cunha throwing stuff at me. You know, I try to be as calm as I can top of the seventh inning.

Now, here in Port Saint Lucie, now we were told before the game that no matter what we were going to play the full seven innings. But now I believe that has been changed that if the Mets are leading after the top of the seventh, they will not play the

Bottom of the seventh spin rates , that kind of have that electric extra gear on it. You see there 97 miles an hour on the strikeout does dial it up right there, 96 MPH to get the strikeout and that is going to do it spring breakout. 2024 the New York Mets knock off

The Washington Nationals by a final of 42.

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