Walking Off Into the Break | Nick Loftin Comes Up Clutch Again in Finale

Walking Off Into the Break | Nick Loftin Comes Up Clutch Again in Finale

Time for baseball at Kauffman Stadium. It’s the Royals and Mets and there is lefty Noah Cameron 25 year old from ST Joe, he’ll turn 26 in just about a week now. 256 a again lowest by any rookie in baseball this season that has made at least five starts. It is past time to start talking about Noah Cameron as a rookie of the year candidate, Markos is the Mets designated hitter in this game. He swings and cracks on high in the sky to right field toward the corner. Cag Leon back to the track nearing the wall jumps and this one lands on the track. Vientos gets to second, takes the turn heading for third, the cut off on the way, the slide, the tag the ball pops out of Garcia’s vents to third base with a triple, an opposite field. Triple Bos away down the line. Vientos ends up at third. Cag Leone put in the spin cycle out there. His struggles continue, the Mets take advantage. So two out for Pete Alonso, Noah Cameron might be working around Alonso with Brandon Nimmo coming up next. So now Nemo with 53 runs batted in. But the match up here certainly favors Noah Cameron. It’s lefty against lefty and he swings and pops it up that in the inning and the foul territory Garcia to make the play. So the strategy of just pitching really pays off comes with a one out triple bottom of the first inning in Kansas City. Nothing, nothing Mets and Royals. It is Clay Holmes day for the New York Mets. Clay Holmes will do his thing maybe five innings. I don’t think they’ll push to 100 pitches, give him his last start before the all star break. And Then we’ll see one of the things with India this season. He’s been really poor leading off games. Like I said, all three games in this series, he’s gotten on 11 is hit on the ground and short could be, has got it flipped the second one to first double play , 643 and there’s two gone. Well, when a is in there, the Mets up the middle, very stylish bottom of the second. No score. Michael garcia. The batter eight home runs. 40 RBI for Garcia. Well, left center field in the gap and down and extra bases for garcia will be at second with a leadoff double. So the had their leadoff man on in each of the first two innings. Holmes paid the price for falling behind Garcia brings up Perez. We mentioned Salbi is the designated hitter in this game. Now, Salbi gets hit by a pitch. Holmes tried to come in on him and came in but way too far and now the Royals have two on with nobody out. Holmes already throws a lot of things that move down towards the bottom of the zone. It’s all he’s going to do here with tag and try to get ground ball for them re for ground the right side diving, stop by a at second. He gets up and throws to first and that’s in time Garcia goes to third Perez to second cagle out on a great glove play by Acuna sliding to his left and at least the Royals avoided the double play and advanced runners 90 ft. And now john Rave john with 11 hits, four RBIs hit a couple of balls very hard yesterday, but no luck, Rave hits it hard and fair pass first. That’s gonna score two John around first and on his way to second base and he’s going to hit the brakes with a two run double. So finally J Rave makes good contact with some luck and went right over the bag at first. So two to nothing Royals and for Rave RBIs five and six for Jonathan, that’s his sixth hit of the series. He’s now six out of 11 this weekend. And that brings up Bobby Wood Junior who grounded into a 643 double play back in the first inning, grounded to short. Could be two again, Lindor the first to Alonso in time, 643. Holmes. Beautiful job for the second time. Doctoring it up. Bobby Witt Junior, the second double play he’s grounded into today. Only had one all season prior to this. Now, Mets have two on one out bottom of the order up chasing two. Here’s Luis 2 to 2 now on to swing and a miss and a strikeout of tons. Second out of the inning. Number five for Noah Cameron, a lot of whips going on. You can’t call him a soft toss and lefty. Any lefty that throws 95 miles an hour is not a soft toss. So two down, the batter is Young Luis on Acuna 1st and 2nd 2 down and a wave and a miss and a breaking ball down in the dirt. And that’s the strikeout on the curveball. That’s number 63 strikeouts inning for Noah Cameron. He works around a couple of base hits to keep him off the board. Noah Cameron has had base runners in every inning, but he has not allowed the Mets to score. It’s two nothing Royals. So now for the Mets top of the order Francisco in at the curve and take care of the rest. Seven Ks for Cameron Yellow Hammer, you can’t hit its triples in the first inning single in the third, Bobby deep. If there’s any doubt he makes that play from the outfield grass. That’s that patented pro stew that Derek Jeter made famous. Yeah, for sure, SOTO is grounded to short and gone down swinging swing and a Miss so Cameron really mixing pitches, the Mets are completely and on the mound for the first time in 2025 lefty Sean man is the 1st 96 games of the season that oblique strain the elbow issue. And finally, he makes his season debut facing Bobby Witt Junior swing and a gravel up the middle of base hit off the bat of Bobby Witt Junior. So first batter singles against him. So it’s an on base streak now that has reached 16 with a base hit up the middle goes first to second. So he’s in scoring position with one out and Michael Garcia coming up swing and a miss strike out Garcia with his first strikeout the season two outs in the sixth and here’s Salvador Perez man is 12 swing and a miss. He struck him out 94 miles an hour blown by Salvador Perez to end the inning. Sean Man returned to the mound looking good and so it’s an infield hit for Acuna who can fly and it appears that Noah Cameron through seven this time , he’ll have to settle for six and two thirds. But listen to the he’s going to get as he walks off. No came exit stage right. John Siber on with a runner at first and two down here in the seventh. Two Nothing Royals two and 22 down. Indo waits and a swing and a ground to right side. Nice play on the outfield by the second baseman. He spins and fires to Vinny for the out that got on India in a hurry off the bat of Lin. And what a job today by Cameron and just there by Schreiber and by India. And that’s how the top of the order coming up in the top of the eighth. So incumbent on man to keep this just a two run deficit as he bends in a sweeper for called strike three. The sweeper really a good weapon in that at bat. Third strike out in a row for man. Well, here is that pitch hitter for the lefty john Rave nick Lofton swung on it missed strike three. How about Shamana picking up right where he left off? That’s four consecutive strikeouts in his season debut? Breaking ball has been on point. That ball missed by a foot by Lofton gave up the leadoff single to Bobby Witt Junior. Then got past pino to ground out and Then it’s four straight strikeouts breaking ball sits him down sweeper swooping in over the outside corner and Shamana strikes out the side five strikeouts in a row for man. I mean, you couldn’t ask for a better appearance coming back, uh, held at all of his pitches, didn’t really see any change up just fastball and breaking ball and befuddled the Kansas City Royals hitters, that towel that’s around his neck. They take cold water and ice. They put ammonia in there and they dip that to put it on the back of your neck. It’s the greatest feeling you’ll ever have. Now, it’s an all star closer on the mound for the ninth. Carlos Est-vez takes the hill to protect a 2 to 0 lead. Est-vez, the all star closer but his last two outings against the Mets have nothing to write home about game four of the series against the Phillies last year. And Then game one of this series where he gave the bases clearing double to Mark Vientos that gave the Mets the lead. Mauricio leads it off batting lap pitch, a line drive the other way, Lofton over, it’s over his head base hit over and toward the wall. Mauricio to second with a leadoff two base hit. That is how it got started for the Mets here in the ninth, Est-vez his first hit. So here come the lefties off the bench. This is Taylor’s spot in the order. So mcneil gets a chance. Remember he added insurance yesterday with an RB I single hit high. Deep drive. Center field is be back and is off the top of the wall goes crashing into the fence. Mauricio rounding third, he’ll come home to score mcneil to third with a triple Mets are now down a run in the ninth. The tying man 94 it is 2 to 1. Kansas City in the ninth. But what a pinch hit spot for Jeff mcneil and here comes Jared Young, the pinch hit for Luis Angela Young’s first at bat back since getting called back up here again. Join the team when Jesse Winker , who’s usually the lefty DH in this spot and he went down with that, that back inflammation swinging a high fly to center field. Here comes his belt squaring it up. He makes the catch mcneil tags. Here, here’s the throw. It’s not in time slides in head first safely. Jared Young ties the game with a sack fly to center field and the Mets have come all the way back to tie to the 9th 2 to 2 against Carlos Est-vez is staying on the mound for the Mets three scoreless innings in his season debut with six strikeouts, swung on and missed strike 37 strikeouts for sean man. That’s the same pitch been thrown to the right handers. That ball is exploding. Tolbert Tolbert hitting in tag Leone spot and a soft liner in the right field is going to drop. So now he has two hits and all the speed you would want at first base representing the winning run. Yeah, he’s the one guy capable of turning that single into a double or a triple. So now he will be at first base. Lofton will be at the plate. There he goes pitch inside the third to second but not enough to, to, to move to third. He picked a great pitch to run on. It was a breaking ball down in the dirt that is a huge stolen base. Now, just a single Lofton can find a hole here. The Royals could have a win. Nick Lofton singled to left to drive in the game winner. A walk off RB I hit earlier in this home base hit here comes to flying around the redemption swing from his second 3 to 2. So the Mets were able to rally with two in the top of the ninth Royals avoided the sweep with a run in the bottom of the ninth.

Noah Cameron turned in another quality start and Nick Loftin came up huge in the 9th to give the Royals a walk-off win headed to the All-Star break!
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