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It just didn’t work out. The middle of the Dodgers’ order, Teoscar Hernandez and Tommy Edman, knocked him out of the box in the first three innings. Manaea, who walked four Dodgers last time out, had neither command nor control, throwing 44% of his pitches for strikes, falling behind nine of the 14 hitters he faced, and getting just seven swings-and-misses on 64 pitches. Manaea got 16 called strikes in Game Two; he got just six last night. He turned back into the pitcher he’d been for most of his career. The Mets aren’t playing on October 20 if not for the work of Sean Manaea, but they’re not playing past October 20 largely because Manaea laid an egg.
