He didn’t get a win, but he will still remember the game.
Outfielder DJ Stewart went 4 for 4 with four RBIs, hitting for the cycle in Sunday’s 8-7 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals at Clover Field.
Stewart told SNY that bench coach Eric Chavez planned to take him out of the game after he doubled in his third at-bat. The outfielder talked Chavez into staying in the game, giving him a chance to hit a 351-foot home run to right field to complete the loop.
It was the first cycle in a spring training game since 2020.
“It’s unbelievable,” Stewart told SNY. “He is the first one I do.”
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Stewart joined the Mets for spring training as a non-roster invitee. The Baltimore Orioles selected Stewart in the first round of the 2015 MLB Draft. He has major league experience, but he only played in three games for the Orioles last season. The 29-year-old slashed .256/.390/.488 with the Norfolk Tides, the Orioles’ Triple-A affiliate, in 2022.
Left-hander David Peterson started Sunday’s loss, allowing one hit, no runs and four walks in four innings of work. Peterson struck out four batters.
Right-hander Tylor Megill struggled on the mound, allowing six runs (three earned) and six hits in 3.2 innings of work.
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“Not my best day to say the least,” Megill said. “I couldn’t really place a slider today. So that was a big problem.”
Manager Buck Showalter said after the game that Megill is “fine” and the right-hander got more mound time due to roster limitations.
“Their stuff is fine, we just gave them a bunch of extra outs…sometimes the game is another byproduct of the (World Baseball Classic) because we have a lot of kids playing that normally wouldn’t be playing. It’s not his fault,” Showalter said.
The manager added that “there will be a lot of factors there” when deciding between Megill and Peterson for the fifth starting spot.
“It comforts me to know that they are both capable of doing the job,” Showalter said.
Outfielder Brandon Nimmo told reporters Sunday that he thinks he’ll be ready to start Opening Day after spraining his ankle and knee. Nimmo, who signed an eight-year, $162 million contract in the offseason, said the diagnosis was a “best case scenario” and that he “he’s just taking it day by day.”
Nimmo left Friday’s game after sliding awkwardly. Images later revealed a low-grade sprain to his right knee and ankle. The team initially considered it on a week-by-week basis.
