Mets' Bo Bichette a bit unlucky against Giants but looking more like himself at the plate
Despite having just one hit in Thursday's loss to the Giants, Bo Bichette looked his best at the plate as a Met while being unlucky in the process.
The Mets offense, as a whole, is struggling, but Bo Bichette is starting to look more like himself, and Thursday proved that. Bichette's box score shows he went 1-for-4, but he could have easily had three hits and driven in a lot more runs. It started in the first, when he lined a double to left field to score the game's first run.
He then took Robbie Ray very deep in the third inning. Bichette launched an 86 mph slider to straightaway center. The ball exited the bat at 104 mph and went 390 feet.
Unfortunately for Bichette and the Mets, it needed to go 391 feet as Harrison Bader leapt and caught it at the top of the wall. "I don't know, I thought I hit it OK," Bichette said after the game of the near-homerun. "I mean, if I thought I got it, I would've came out of the box a little different.
" After a strikeout in the fifth, Bichette's night ended similarly to the robbed home run. He hit a liner that first baseman Casey Schmitt jumped and snagged on a line, before stepping on first base to complete the double play that ended the eighth. "Bo had some really good at-bats today," manager Carlos Mendoza said.