Jose Quintana pitched the game of the season for the Mets on Sunday. A day later, Luis Severino essentially said, “Hold my beer.”
If you blinked you missed it, but on this comfortable spring night Severino accelerated rapid fire through the Cubs, taking a no-hitter into the eighth inning before Dansby Swanson’s bloop toward left field was too high for Francisco Lindor’s outstretched glove.
It was the only hit Severino allowed over 101 pitches. He doffed his cap to the saluting crowd at Citi Field as he departed the field after recording the final out in the eighth. But at that point the Cubs had their first run on the board — after Joey Wendle had erroneously decided to try for an inning-ending double play on Nick Madrigal’s slow grounder to third instead of firing home — and the Mets’ victory was now in jeopardy.
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