Mets’ Sean Manaea breaks silence on Carlos Mendoza convo in loss to Phillies

The Philadelphia Phillies cannot be stopped , and it was New York Mets starter Sean Manaea who learned of that firsthand on Tuesday. Manaea, in a 9-3 loss to the Phillies, allowed four runs in five innings of work and was quite overmatched in a few at-bats as Philly poured it on to increase their division lead to nine games over New York.

It looked as though the 33-year-old lefty was headed for a nightmare outing; he allowed two runs in each of his first two innings on the night and he seemed rattled as everything the Phillies did seemed to have the crowd at Citizens Bank Park on its feet. But Manaea rebounded well enough to throw three shutout innings after that before manager Carlos Mendoza pulled him.

After the game, Manaea revealed that a pep talk from the Mets manager went