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- Updated: August 4, 2016
NEW YORK — This was Jay Bruce’s first big chance with his new team: bases loaded, nobody out, the Mets trailing the Yankees by three in the seventh inning at Yankee Stadium.
He struck out on three pitches. Bruce took a fastball from Luis Severino for the first strike, swung through a second, then peered out over the plate as a third heater hummed across the outside corner for a called strike three. The Mets only pushed across one run in the inning, and the Yankees broke the game open with three in the bottom half as the Mets fell, 9-5, on Wednesday night.
“Obviously, I would have at least liked to at least put the ball in play,” Bruce said. “But I’m guessing that’s not gonna be my last opportunity, so I’m looking forward to the next one.”
In Bruce’s two games as a Met, he has yet to record a hit. A pair of 0-for-4 nights doesn’t mean much in the big picture, but Bruce was the Mets’ big-ticket …
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