{"id":33330,"date":"2025-05-17T07:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T07:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/33330\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T07:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T07:37:10","slug":"tylor-megill-cant-shake-his-may-struggles-in-subway-series-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/33330\/","title":{"rendered":"Tylor Megill can’t shake his May struggles in Subway Series opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tylor Megill, with apologies to Frank Sinatra, was riding high in April, shot down in May.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Mets right-hander had struggled in his two starts before Friday and then proceeded to turn in his shortest and sloppiest outing of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Megill\u2019s biggest sin wasn\u2019t the contact he allowed \u2014 he sustained bad luck in that regard \u2014 but it was difficult to excuse his lack of control in the Mets\u2019 6-2 loss to the Yankees in the Bronx.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Overall, he surrendered four earned runs on four hits and five walks over 2 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings. Megill was knocked out in the third after the Yankees sent nine batters to the plate in the inning and placed the Mets in a 4-0 hole.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t throw enough strikes,\u201d manager Carlos Mendoza said. \u201cAnd when you are doing that against an offense like these guys, they are going to make you pay.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"TylorTylor Megill pitches during the first inning against the New York Yankees on May 16, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Megill pitched to a 1.74 ERA in his six starts in March\/April. In each of his three starts since, he\u2019s allowed four earned runs, pitching five innings or fewer, for an 8.76 ERA over that stretch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just putting myself in bad situations and falling behind,\u201d Megill said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jorbit Vivas began Megill\u2019s downfall on this night with a solid single to right field leading off the third inning. After Aaron Judge drew a one-out walk, Megill received a healthy dose of tough luck: Cody Bellinger hit a slow grounder to third and beat Mark Vientos\u2019 throw, loading the bases. <\/p>\n

\"TylorTylor Megill allowed four earned runs in 2.2 innings pitched against the Yankees on Friday. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

Paul Goldschmidt followed with a broken-bat grounder that Francisco Lindor gloved behind second base. Lindor\u2019s throw to first bounced off Pete Alonso\u2019s glove, allowing a second run to score on the play.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Megill was about to start creating his own problems. Jason Dom\u00ednguez walked before Anthony Volpe\u2019s sacrifice fly extended the deficit to 3-0. Austin Wells and Oswald Peraza drew walks in succession \u2014 forcing in another run and ending Megill\u2019s night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFour walks in an inning, that\u2019s just not going to cut it,\u201d Megill said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Griffin Canning and David Peterson, the scheduled Mets starters over the next two games, can only hope for better results.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kodai Senga, who has reemerged as the Mets ace this season, won\u2019t get to pitch in the series. Clay Holmes, a former Yankee, started Wednesday against the Pirates, just missing a chance to pitch in Yankee Stadium for his new team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel good about the five guys we have got in our rotation,\u201d Mendoza said this week when asked about his decision not to reconfigure the pitching alignment ahead of the Subway Series. \u201cIt just happened to line up that way and we went with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tylor Megill, with apologies to Frank Sinatra, was riding high in April, shot down in May.\u00a0 The Mets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,4,1690,61,62,2548,4203,185,10545,1326],"class_list":{"0":"post-33330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mets","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkmets","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-subway-series","18":"tag-tylor-megill"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114522033027593092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33330","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=33330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}