LOS ANGELES — It’s baseball, you understand, so something can occur. Paul Blackburn, the forgotten man even amongst lacking Mets starters, made probably the most well-known participant on earth look human.
Thrice, the incomparable Shohei Ohtani batted in opposition to Blackburn, the soft-tossing right-hander who was making his 2025 debut. And all 3 times Blackburn gained the battle.
Twice Blackburn struck out Ohtani, then on Blackburn’s closing pitch on his improbable night time at attractive Dodger Stadium, he received Ohtani to floor out with two runners on. (Ohtani, unsurprisingly, would later homer off Mets reliever Max Kranick — Ohtani’s MLB main twenty third homer — and likewise hit a game-tying, ninth-inning sacrifice fly off Mets nearer Edwin Diaz earlier than the Mets gained 4-3 within the tenth.)
Seemingly to this point down the Mets’ very deep depth chart, Blackburn was solely sometimes cited in press reviews on harm updates. But when this retains up, he’ll pressure his means into a really completely satisfied Mets pitching image.
