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Could Duda be heating up after 2-HR game?
- Updated: May 4, 2016
NEW YORK — The calendar now firmly turned to May, the Mets are hoping to play on fewer afternoons like Wednesday. Which isn’t to lament their power-fueled 8-0 rout of the Braves, but more the misty, chilly, early-spring conditions they endured at Citi Field to do so. Now after bundling through a nine-game homestand, the Mets set off for the sun-soaked shores of San Diego, with one of their most important hitters heating up as well.
That Lucas Duda shows power to all fields, as he did so twice Wednesday, homering both to right-center field and to left-center, serves as an indicator to his manager that he’s starting to catch fire. Duda has quietly accumulated 79 homers over the last three-plus seasons (a higher home run-per-game …
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