Atlanta Braves get a taste of their own medicine in loss to Mets on Tuesday night

2. Julio Teheran struggles to find command

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more consistent pitcher across the past month than Julio Teheran (next to Mike Soroka, of course).

Across Teheran’s previous 8 starts, he earned a 0.81 ERA in 44.2 innings pitched. He had allowed only 4 earned runs during that stretch as well.

Not only that but much like deGrom has success against the Braves, Julio Teheran has great numbers against the Mets in his career. Of his 25 starts made against New York, Teheran has 20 quality starts with a 10-7 record.

We all know that every starting pitcher will have a bad start eventually and unfortunately for Teheran that was the case on Tuesday evening.

Julio would finish with a line of 4 IP, 8 H, 6 ER, 3 BB, and 3 K.

That’s definitely not the kind of consistency that Atlanta Braves fans have seen from Teheran lately.

The 6 runs allowed by Teheran were the most he has allowed since May 5th. Julio had allowed just 4 earned runs in his last 44.2 innings pitched.

Not only that but the home run he allowed to Pete Alonso was the first home run he had allowed since April 30th.

So this was a very disappointing way to end a great stretch of pitching by the Atlanta Braves right-hander. However, I have to believe that he will bounce back the next time around and continue to provide the team with quality outings.

Julio also didn’t benefit from some inconsistency from home plate umpire Manny Gonzalez. There were a few pitches that should have been called strikes on the corner of the plate but weren’t. This caused Teheran to stay a little too far over the plate with his pitches.

Brian McCann had a steady conversation with Gonzalez because of the inconsistency. I can’t blame him because a few of those should have been called strikes.

Now, I’m not going to blame everything on the umpires inconsistency. At the end of the day, Teheran has to make good pitches to work out of tough situations.

He struggled to find command of his pitches most of the night and had a lot of balls just hang right over the heart of the plate for the Mets hitters to take advantage of.

He wasn’t really able to gain command of his pitches on Tuesday evening and that’s what ultimately allowed the Mets to take Game 2 from the Atlanta Braves.

Maybe Julio’s next start will see him regain some of the recent success he’s found.