ATLANTA — The Mets received a 13-1 Atlanta thrashing on Monday night in a game that featured DH/first baseman Darin Ruf pitching two scoreless innings, included a nearly hourlong rain delay and did not end until 11:33 p.m. And that might not have even been the worst part of their night.
Carlos Carrasco exited after two innings and 51 pitches because of tightness in his left side, an ambiguous threat to a rotation that has been the Mets’ strength of late. The severity of the issue was not immediately clear.
He grabbed at the area after completing the bottom of the second, during which he threw 27 pitches, sat through the 55-minute delay as storms passed through the aera and returned to finish the frame on five more pitches.
