Facing one of baseball's best offenses, José Urquidy threw a career high in pitches in a...
Houston Astros Yordan Alvarez during batting practice before the start of an MLB game at Minute Maid Park on Tuesday, June 21, 2022 in Houston.José Urquidy gave up back-to-back singles to put himself in jeopardy. Greater peril arrived when Yuli Gurriel’s error allowed the Mets to load the bases with one out and brought the go-ahead run to the plate with the Astros up 3-0.
“I was very focused,” he said. “I was trying to put the hitter away and compete 100 percent with the hitter.”, Urquidy vanquished a Mets lineup that is among baseball’s most potent. The Mets entered Tuesday with baseball’s second-best record, the National League’s highest OPS+ and a .286 batting average with runners in scoring position.
Urquidy entered Tuesday’s game with the highest ERA and lowest strikeout-per-nine-innings rate of Houston’s healthy starting pitchers. The back-to-back strikeouts of Escobar and Davis is an automatic contender for his best moment this season.