{"id":120474,"date":"2025-06-21T13:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T13:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/120474\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T13:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T13:47:11","slug":"breaking-down-blade-tidwells-second-mlb-career-start-for-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/120474\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking down Blade Tidwell&#8217;s second MLB career start for Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia (45-30) opened a three-game series against the Mets (45-30) Friday at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/philadelphia-phillies\/246\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Phillies;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Phillies<\/a> were victorious, 10-2.<\/p>\n<p>Former Vol <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/watch-blade-tidwells-second-mlb-140123148.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Blade Tidwell;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blade Tidwell<\/a> made his second career MLB start for New York. He pitched 3.2 innings and recorded four strikeouts. Tidwell totaled 74 pitches, including 43 strikes, against 17 batters. 10 strikes were on a first pitch, 14 pitches were called strikes, nine were swinging strikes, 10 strikes were from foul balls and 10 pitches were in play strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Tidwell allowed four hits, two runs (two earned) and three walks against the Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>He made his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/blade-tidwell-makes-mlb-debut-202236885.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:MLB debut;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB debut<\/a>\u00a0for the Mets on May 4 in a, 6-5, loss at St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>Tidwell (13-5) played for the Vols from 2021-22, appearing in 31 games (27 starts). He recorded 141 strikeouts and a 3.53 ERA, while leading all Tennessee pitchers with 18 starts as a true freshman in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/baseball\/2021\/06\/23\/college-world-series-baseball-photos-tennessee-vols-texas-longhorns\/79292834007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:2021;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">More: <a href=\"https:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/baseball\/2021\/06\/23\/college-world-series-baseball-photos-tennessee-vols-texas-longhorns\/79292834007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:2021 Tennessee-Texas College World Series baseball photos;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">2021 Tennessee-Texas College World Series baseball photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow Vols Wire on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VolsWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VolsWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a>\u00a0(formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Vols Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/baseball\/2025\/06\/21\/new-york-mets-pitcher-blade-tidwell-by-the-numbers-in-second-career-mlb-start\/84298236007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Former Vol Blade Tidwell by the numbers in second career MLB start;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Former Vol Blade Tidwell by the numbers in second career MLB start<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia (45-30) opened a three-game series against the Mets (45-30) Friday at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,1848,5782,4,144,40,673,812],"class_list":{"0":"post-120474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blade-tidwell","10":"tag-citizens-bank-park","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-phillies","14":"tag-st-louis","15":"tag-the-mets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114721668749071985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}