When the Mets needed a quality — and extended — relief outing, left-hander Joely Rodriguez delivered.
The trade deadline came and went last Tuesday without the Mets addressing what many pegged as their biggest need: a left-handed reliever.
On another day when the Mets’ bullpen was shorthanded, Rodriguez relieved Jacob deGrom and provided 2 ¹/₃ scoreless innings in a“Joely was as key to the game today as Jake was,” manager Buck Showalter said. “Was that a stretch? I don’t think it’s a stretch.” When the game started, Showalter knew he had five relievers who he wasn’t going to use after the first four games of the series had taxed the bullpen.
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