{"id":163719,"date":"2026-03-15T03:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163719\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T03:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:31:10","slug":"mark-vientos-spring-struggles-continue-for-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163719\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Vientos&#8217; spring struggles continue for Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observations from Mets spring training on Saturday:<\/p>\n<p>Pache of cake<\/p>\n<p>Cristian Pache, known for his glove in center, made a fine running catch in left-center to rob Jake Meyers of a hit.<\/p>\n<p>Marked man<\/p>\n<p>Mark Vientos went hitless and is 1-for-21 in Grapefruit League games. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38783337\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/flies-fifth-inning-washington-nationals-122454492.jpg\" alt=\"New York Mets infielder Mark Vientos (27) in a blue uniform and helmet with orange &quot;NY&quot; logo and black eye black.\" class=\"wp-image-38783337\"  \/>Mark Vientos is pictured during the Mets\u2019 Feb. 28 spring training game. Corey Sipkin for the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>He also struggled in the WBC, but manager Carlos Mendoza cited hard-hit balls as a reason for encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>Caught my eye<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s first-round pick, Mitch Voit, got his first Grapefruit League hit. <\/p>\n<p>Filling in for the injured Jackson Cluff, the 38th overall selection started at second and singled.<\/p>\n<p>The Naples, Fla., native made a name for himself at the University of Michigan last season when he imitated snorting a line of cocaine along the third base line after a triple. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe looks like a hitter,\u201d Mendoza said.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s schedule<\/p>\n<p>Zach Thornton will start for the Mets against Toronto at Clover Park at 1:10 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Observations from Mets spring training on Saturday: Pache of cake Cristian Pache, known for his glove in center,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35580,20,9,11,320,10,319,55941],"class_list":["post-163719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-mark-vientos","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports","tag-spring-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}