
Mets’ bats shut down star rookie Shota Imanaga in beatdown over Cubs
NY Post
CHICAGO — The collision between a sizzling starting pitcher and lineup in the same category produced a giant fireball bearing a Mets logo Friday.
Shota Imanaga, a strong early candidate for National League Rookie of the Year, simply got pummeled from the start, with the Mets resuming the beat-down tactics that began on their last homestand.
How bad was it for the Cubs left-hander? Consider that he began the afternoon with a 1.89 ERA and ended it at 2.96. That’s a rough day at the office — or, in this case, the Friendly Confines.
The Mets blasted three homers against Imanaga and rolled to an 11-1 victory at Wrigley Field. It was an eighth victory in nine games for the Mets, who had a seven-game winning streak snapped two days earlier in Texas.

Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.












