{"id":607381,"date":"2026-03-05T08:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/607381\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:12:22","slug":"bo-bichette-flashes-third-base-potential-for-mets-with-stellar-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/607381\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo Bichette flashes third base potential for Mets with stellar play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observations from Mets spring training on Wednesday <\/p>\n<p>Long man<\/p>\n<p>David Peterson, now the longest-tenured Met, got off to a strong start with three scoreless innings in his first outing of the spring. The lefty struck out four in the 5-2 win over Israel\u2019s WBC team.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bo Bichette fields balls at third base before the Mets\u2019 spring training loss to the Nationals at Clover Field on Feb. 28, 2026. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a5249218a42e881312248042be213335.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bo Bichette fields balls at third base before the Mets\u2019 spring training loss to the Nationals at Clover Field on Feb. 28, 2026. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p>Burd is the word<\/p>\n<p>Nick Burdi allowed a run on two hits in his lone inning of work and has allowed three runs in three innings this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Caught my eye<\/p>\n<p>Bo Bichette made a terrific diving stop to his right on a smash down the third base line to start a 5-4-3 double play in a minor league game, saying afterward, \u201cIt\u2019s all about getting more comfortable there. My goal coming into the game was to feel less antsy and not worry if a ball like that got by me and that allowed me to just go after the ball and make the play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s schedule<\/p>\n<p>The Mets travel to West Palm Beach, Fla., to face the Nationals with right-hander Justin Hagenman getting the start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Observations from Mets spring training on Wednesday Long man David Peterson, now the longest-tenured Met, got off to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,88,75948,759,25115,101,4,415,4503,2099,151,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-607381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bo-bichette","10":"tag-clover-field","11":"tag-david-peterson","12":"tag-justin-hagenman","13":"tag-mets","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-nationals","16":"tag-nick-burdi","17":"tag-scoreless-innings","18":"tag-spring-training","19":"tag-washington","20":"tag-washington-nationals","21":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116175566622761696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607381","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=607381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}