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Evan & Tiki

Hour 3: Mendy Doesn’t Push Clay Holmes in Mets Loss

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.6945 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Carlos Mendoza was not willing to push Clay Holmes to pitch more, and it may have cost the Mets a game

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0:00.0

Mike Brown is the new head coach of the Knicks.

0:02.7

To hear our reaction to it, rewind on the Odyssey app right to 2 o'clock.

0:06.6

The Mets lose another game.

0:08.8

What else is new?

0:09.5

They had a 2-1 lead.

0:10.7

Clay Holmes was taken out with one out and a runner-on in the sixth inning.

0:14.6

And then Reid Garrett imploded.

0:16.2

And the Mets ended up losing 7 to 2.

0:18.1

We'll get to the Yankees in just a few minutes, but that's one of the big questions met fans had on this matinee.

0:23.7

Why did Carlos Mendoza take Clay Holmes out with one out in the sixth inning?

0:28.5

Well, let's hear from the manager and have him explain himself.

0:31.9

What was the thought process for moving Clay when you did there?

0:35.1

Yeah.

0:37.0

So that fourth inning, he walked all the base is loaded with the three left did there. Yeah. So that fourth inning, he walked the basis loaded with the three

0:40.7

lefties there. Seems like he was having a hard time landing the secondaries in the strike zone.

0:46.5

And then I knew, you know, we're up one. He's approaching 90 pitches there. Once he walks

0:53.1

gelich to lead off the inning, I knew I was going to, you know,

0:57.5

I was going to just giving him to you regardless. He got to Riu out and, you know, that was, that was

1:03.1

it. No, that's his answer. And the problem is Clay Holmes, who's had a very good first year

1:08.8

as a starting pitcher, he doesn't go that deep in the games.

1:12.6

That's like the ultimate issue.

1:13.9

And when I looked at his pitch counts this season and see like, all right, how often has he gone past 90?

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