{"id":181863,"date":"2026-03-07T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181863\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:19:08","slug":"mets-luis-robert-jr-homers-as-he-preps-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181863\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; Luis Robert Jr. homers as he preps for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observations from Mets spring training Friday:<\/p>\n<p>Catching up<\/p>\n<p>Francisco \u00c1lvarez had a pair of hits \u2014 including a double \u2014 and also threw out a runner trying to swipe second.<\/p>\n<p>Bounce back<\/p>\n<p>Craig Kimbrel struggled with his command in his first outing of the spring and then walked the first batter he faced Friday, but recovered and looked sharp in retiring the next three batters, two by strikeout.<\/p>\n<p>Caught my eye<\/p>\n<p>Luis Robert Jr. homered in a minor league game on a back field in Port St. Lucie. <\/p>\n<p>Carlos Mendoza said Robert \u201ccontinues to crush pitching\u201d and will play center in minor league games every other day through Wednesday\u2019s off day as he slowly preps for the regular season after being plagued by lower-body injuries with the White Sox.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.46704871;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38703681\" width=\"866\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Luis-Robert-Jr.-.jpg\" alt=\"Luis Robert Jr., taking batting practice earlier in spring training, belted a homer in a minor league game on the back field in Port St. Lucie on March 6, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-38703681\"  \/>Luis Robert Jr., taking batting practice earlier in spring training, belted a homer in a minor league game on the back field in Port St. Lucie on March 6, 2026. Corey Sipkin for New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s schedule<\/p>\n<p>Kodai Senga takes the mound when the Mets visit Jupiter, Fla., for a second straight day at Roger Dean Stadium, this time to face the Cardinals at 1:05 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Observations from Mets spring training Friday: Catching up Francisco \u00c1lvarez had a pair of hits \u2014 including a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[77015,71254,63654,3817,12193,171,173,172,110],"class_list":["post-181863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-craig-kimbrel","tag-francisco-alvarez","tag-luis-robert-jr","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}