I'm confident in my stuff, confident in my work, my preparation, my routine, Scott said (h/t SNY). I'm just going out there to attack hitters and see what happens.
[During that first inning, I was just thinking] get a ground ball, double play. I was able to do that and that was huge, he said. I was really able to cruise after that.
Across his 94 pitches, he generated 18 swings and misses a season-high for any Mets pitcher in a single game while 15 of the 18 balls that were put in play by the Rays were deemed soft contact by Baseball Savant.
His offspeed pitches were his great equalizer. A mid-80s sweeper and a high-80s gyro slider kept Tampa batters out in front, which set up his mid-90s fastball well.
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