Freddy Peralta allowed seven hits and five runs with three walks and four strikeouts over four innings in a loss to the Blue Jays on Wednesday.
Peralta’s disastrous season just keeps getting worse. He gave up his first run after just the first three batters of the game. He had two of those hitters down to their final strike, but couldn’t put them away. Then, his entire four-run third inning debacle came with two outs. The biggest blow of that inning came from Sean Keys, who hit his first career home run. Just before that, he had Ernie Clement down to his final strike and could’ve escaped this jam without any runs on the board. Instead, after missing with a curveball, he came back with a fastball in the zone that Clement laced for an RBI double. Between poor command and a lack of confidence in all of his breaking stuff, Peralta is a shell of himself right now. He’ll take a 4.81 ERA with 92 strikeouts and 38 walks across 95 1/3 innings into his next scheduled start that could come Monday against the Braves or Tuesday against the Royals depending on how the Mets structure their rotation with an off-day on Thursday.
