Luke Weaver's lockdown effort provides sigh of relief for ailing Mets
In an emotional first outing against his former team, Luke Weaver delivered two shutdown innings to help the Mets take down the Yankees at Citi Field.
NEW YORK — Carlos Mendoza has seen plenty of Luke Weaver's outings from both sides of New York, so on an emotional Saturday night, the Mets manager knew he was going to get the best out of his setup man in the most important juncture of the game. For his first outing against the Yankees, his former team, Weaver was pressed into action with the Mets leading by two runs with the bases loaded and no outs in the seventh inning. "It's just the body language there," Mendoza said.
"I think he hit 98 (mph). It's just the way the ball was coming out. He was attacking.
And then executing. The way he mixed his pitches. He wasn't afraid to use the fastball, but then he used the changeup when he needed to.
That shows you right there that he's on. " Weaver struck out Amed Rosario and Trent Grisham and induced a ground ball from Anthony Volpe to silence the Yankees at the most important moment of the game. Then, he went back out, shook off a single with a double play and induced a fly ball from Aaron Judge to boost the Mets to a 6-3 victory in front of 41,067 fans on Saturday night at Citi Field.
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