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Mets outfielder Carson Benge continues to show out during his rookie campaign.
We’ve seen what he can do with the glove, we’ve seen what he can do with the bat, and on Friday night he decided it was time to show off his cannon of an arm.
Benge unleashed two different strikes to gun down Dodgers trying to advance.
The first came when Shohei Ohtani attempted to stretch a double into a triple leading off the top of the fifth, but the youngster made a perfect throw in to Francisco Lindor to start a relay.
Benge cost the Mets by misplaying one of those doinkers down in the Citi Field right-field corner earlier this season, so this time around he knew exactly how to play it.
“I saw it running towards the wall, and I’ve already misplayed one of those,” he said. “So I tried to stay deep on it and then I saw him not slowing down when he was heading to second, so I knew just to throw it in and they’d get him.”
Benge would deliver once again to keep things evened at one apiece just one inning later.
This time the 23-year-old camped under a fly ball to right, getting himself set before firing a 100.0 mph strike towards home to gun down Freddie Freeman trying to score the go-ahead run.
According to MLB.com's Sarah Langs, that’s the Mets’ fastest outfield assist recorded in the Statcast era.
“It fires me up,” Benge said. “One of my favorite things to do is to throw someone out -- all that was going through my head was get it out quick and as hard as you can -- just look for our big catcher back there and he’ll do the rest.”
Benge became the first Mets rookie since Juan Lagares with two assists in the same game, also as per Langs.
“Watching from my perspective, it was one of the coolest things on a baseball field,” Sean Manaea said. “The play for Ohtani at third, the relay was unbelievable, the throw home, that’s just good baseball right there -- to watch a young player keep his cool and do cool stuff like that, it’s really fun.”
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We’ve seen what he can do with the glove, we’ve seen what he can do with the bat, and on Friday night he decided it was time to show off his cannon of an arm.
Benge unleashed two different strikes to gun down Dodgers trying to advance.
The first came when Shohei Ohtani attempted to stretch a double into a triple leading off the top of the fifth, but the youngster made a perfect throw in to Francisco Lindor to start a relay.
Benge cost the Mets by misplaying one of those doinkers down in the Citi Field right-field corner earlier this season, so this time around he knew exactly how to play it.
“I saw it running towards the wall, and I’ve already misplayed one of those,” he said. “So I tried to stay deep on it and then I saw him not slowing down when he was heading to second, so I knew just to throw it in and they’d get him.”
Benge would deliver once again to keep things evened at one apiece just one inning later.
This time the 23-year-old camped under a fly ball to right, getting himself set before firing a 100.0 mph strike towards home to gun down Freddie Freeman trying to score the go-ahead run.
According to MLB.com's Sarah Langs, that’s the Mets’ fastest outfield assist recorded in the Statcast era.
“It fires me up,” Benge said. “One of my favorite things to do is to throw someone out -- all that was going through my head was get it out quick and as hard as you can -- just look for our big catcher back there and he’ll do the rest.”
Benge became the first Mets rookie since Juan Lagares with two assists in the same game, also as per Langs.
“Watching from my perspective, it was one of the coolest things on a baseball field,” Sean Manaea said. “The play for Ohtani at third, the relay was unbelievable, the throw home, that’s just good baseball right there -- to watch a young player keep his cool and do cool stuff like that, it’s really fun.”
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