{"id":112458,"date":"2025-08-26T23:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112458\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T23:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:46:07","slug":"mets-call-up-canadian-pitcher-jonah-tong-to-make-first-start-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112458\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets call up Canadian pitcher Jonah Tong, to make first start Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada’s Jonah Tong is going to the show.<\/p>\n

The New York Mets<\/a> promoted the starting pitcher from triple-A on Tuesday, manager Carlos Mendoza said.<\/p>\n

Tong will make his first start on Friday against the Miami Marlins, where he could face fellow Canadian Liam Hicks.<\/p>\n

With the Mets in a stretch of 16 games without a day off, they want to insert a sixth starter next time through the rotation to give the regular members an extra day of rest.<\/p>\n

Tong, 22, is the fourth-ranked prospect in the Mets system, per MLB.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After spending most of this season at double-A, the Markham, Ont., native was recently bumped up a level, where he pitched 11.2 scoreless innings with 17 strikeouts over two starts.<\/p>\n

At double-A, Tong posted a 1.59 ERA over 20 starts while fanning 162 opponents.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s all about him dominating the minor leagues,” Mendoza said when asked about the timing of the call-up. “You could make a case, ‘Alright, it double-A, you want to give him a better look at the triple-A level,’ but, man, a couple of outings and it’s hard to keep him there. So here he is now.”<\/p>\n

Tong was originally selected by the Mets in the seventh round of the 2022 draft out of Bill Crothers Secondary School.<\/p>\n

The decision comes soon after the Mets brought up touted pitcher Nolan McLean from Syracuse to make his debut Aug. 16 against Seattle.<\/p>\n

With the team starved for length and dependability from any starter besides David Peterson, the 24-year-old McLean has delivered, going 2-0 with a 1.46 ERA and 15 strikeouts in 12 1\/3 innings over two big league starts.<\/p>\n

He’s set to make his third Wednesday night against Philadelphia, which held a six-game lead in the NL East over the Mets heading into the middle game of their series Tuesday night at Citi Field.<\/p>\n

New York was 2 1\/2 games ahead of Cincinnati for the final National League wild card.<\/p>\n

— With files from the Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada’s Jonah Tong is going to the show. The New York Mets promoted the starting pitcher from triple-A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-112458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}