Carson Benge swats 18th home run in loss Tuesday

Mauricio has gotten zero starts in four games against lefties since being recalled, but he did start the lone previous game against a righty, going 0-for-2 with a walk and an RBI on Saturday. The Mets are finally facing another righty today, but they picked Nick Marabito to start over Mauricio, with Juan Soto DHing for a second straight day. Mauricio will be out of options next spring, but given how the Mets have handled him this year, he might not even be on the roster at that point.

“I’ll probably be in the training room all day, just trying to get some inflammation down, get the range of motion going and kind of see where we’re at,” Gausman said. “The next two days are pretty important, to be honest, trying to get back to a little bit of normalcy.” Gausman is expected to start in next week’s Wild Card series if healthy.

Weird but ok. Alcantara, who picked up his second save last night, is still going to wind up leading the league in innings pitched in his first year back from Tommy John. He’s 13-11 with a 3.89 ERA and a 152/59 K/BB in 213 innings. The Marlins didn’t say who would start in his place, but Dax Fulton and Bradley Blalock could be available to go multiple innings.

Falvey was previously the Twins’ president of baseball operations, and the Twins reached the postseason four times under his leadership, earning a wild-card spot in 2017 and winning the division in 2019, 2020 and 2023. He will work closely with David Stearns, who he previously worked with in Cleveland in 2011-12. Additionally, Kris Gross, who was in charge of the Mets’ last three drafts (selecting Nolan McLean, Carson Benge, etc.), has been promoted to assistant general manager of scouting.

Interestingly, Langford has been a reverse-splits player this year, hitting just .220/.316/.371 in 152 plate appearances against lefties with a nearly 26 percent strikeout rate. In his career, he is slashing .238/.356/.440 against lefties and .247/.327/.419 against righties. Justin Foscue will lead off and play second on Thursday.

Sisk was sent down to Triple-A at the beginning of the month, but it seems like he’ll finish the season with the big league club. The left-hander has a 3.16 ERA in 42 2/3 innings for the Pirates so far this season.

Curtis threw 3 2/3 innings of relief on Wednesday and was unlikely to be available for any more games this season. With the Triple-A season over, Curtis is simply being demoted to the Florida Complex League as a procedural move. The 24-year-old could compete for a rotation spot in 2027.

This strategy worked well in Cantillo’s last outing, where he recorded five strikeouts over six scoreless innings against the Athletics on Friday. With Boston’s offense in a bit of a slide right now, Cantillo could be a solid option in fantasy leagues on Thursday.

Both players have been battling injuries over the last few weeks, so it makes sense for the Royals to give them a rest with a day game after a night game and the team eliminated from playoff contention. Nick Loftin will start at third base and hit sixth while John Rave will be in right field and bat seventh.

This is the first time this season that Reynolds is not in the starting lineup. Instead, Jake Mangum will start in left field, and Ronny Simon will stay in the lineup and play right field. It’s been a solid bounce-back season for Reynolds, but he’s hitting just .228 with three home runs in 61 games since the All-Star break, so he was probably overdue for a day off.