Ewing launched a Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez sinker for a homer leading off the third inning. The blast, which cleared the center field fence, was the first of his career that he did not pull. Ewing has five homers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I have always been comfortable against lefties,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ewing and Carson Benge, the two rookies in the lineup, have been success stories in a dreary season for the Mets. The 21-year-old Ewing boosted his OPS to .756 with his latest performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we have believed he\u2019s going to hit lefties in the long run, and it\u2019s good to see him doing it,\u201d interim manager Andy Green said.<\/p>\n
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New York Mets center fielder A.J. Ewing (9) reacts after hitting a home run against the Atlanta Braves during the second inning at Truist Park. Dale Zanine-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Francisco Lindor is expected to either DH or receive a day off Monday as the team continues to monitor his workload following his return from a calf strain.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully, it\u2019s the DH because we love having his bat in the lineup,\u201d Green said. \u201cBut certainly, we like paying attention to his workload every day. It\u2019s something we talked about [Saturday], and he felt good to go \u2014 it puts a good lineup on the field for us, having him at shortstop. He was on the bases quite a bit [Saturday], so it\u2019s good to see him playing well and recovering.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Green indicated he likely will deploy Kodai Senga behind an opener for Tuesday\u2019s game against the Royals at Citi Field. Senga pitched 2 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings in relief Friday, allowing one earned run. In his other relief appearance since his displacement from the starting rotation, he allowed two earned runs over five innings against the Phillies.<\/p>\n
Juan Soto has reached base in 18 of his past 21 games since June 11 and ranks second in MLB among qualifiers in on-base percentage (.500) during that stretch. He\u2019s third in OPS (1.171) and fifth in batting average (.371). Overall, he leads the NL with a .966 OPS.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 A.J. Ewing is not deterred by left-handed pitching. The rookie homered and singled \u2014 both against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[77480,13831,35579,20,9,11,320,10,319],"class_list":["post-287791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-a-j-ewing","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-kodai-senga","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287791","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=287791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}