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- Updated: May 12, 2016
LOS ANGELES — Kenta Maeda was prepared for the Mets hitters, he had watched tape on them, and he was able to execute despite not having his sharpest stuff. Yet it was the one hitter Maeda never saw coming that led to the Dodgers’ 4-3 loss on Wednesday.
Noah Syndergaard’s two home runs in his first two at-bats left Maeda in disbelief, along with manager Dave Roberts and the rest of the Dodgers dugout.
Maeda was still processing the second one as Syndergaard rounded the bases. One pitch ago Syndergaard had been trying to lay down a bunt, and now he had hit a ball more than 100 mph into the right-field bleachers.
“I don’t know if it was he felt it was a decent enough pitch hit out of the ballpark or he didn’t think he was going to hit as opposed to trying to sacrifice bunt,” Roberts said. “Earlier in that sequence he was trying to get the bunt down and Terry [Collins] took the bunt off. I don’t know if that was it, but [Maeda] was stunned. Still thought he had enough to go back out there for another inning.”
Maeda had understandably not …
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