{"id":640910,"date":"2026-05-01T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640910\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:10:09","slug":"mlb-news-kyle-hendricks-garrett-crochet-injury-alex-cora-firing-nick-kurtz-mets-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640910\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB News: Kyle Hendricks, Garrett Crochet injury, Alex Cora firing, Nick Kurtz, Mets lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Happy Friday, everyone. It\u2019s hard to believe it, but we are actually approaching the one-fifth point of the season. It\u2019s no longer easy to just blame issues on a small sample size, and we\u2019re starting to have a good idea of who the real contenders this season might be. The NL seems to be faring much better than the AL overall, but even in the NL we still have teams like the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/ny-mets\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mets;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Mets&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mets<\/a> and <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/philadelphia\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Phillies;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Phillies&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phillies<\/a> showing historically bad season starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">We look at that in today\u2019s news alongside other fun tidbits. <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/10835\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Shohei Ohtani;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Shohei Ohtani&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> showed that he wasn\u2019t perfect, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/64313\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nick Kurtz;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Nick Kurtz&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Kurtz<\/a> is taking a ton of walks, and the Phillies can\u2019t even take in a hockey game without getting savagely booed by frustrated fans.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">All that and more, so let\u2019s just jump right into it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">And tomorrow will be a better day than today, Buster. Make it so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Friday, everyone. 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