{"id":82055,"date":"2025-07-23T07:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=82055"},"modified":"2025-07-23T07:18:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:18:36","slug":"mets-paul-blackburn-tosses-five-strong-innings-during-triple-a-rehab-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=82055","title":{"rendered":"Mets\u2019 Paul Blackburn tosses five strong innings during Triple-A rehab appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/new-york-mets-relief-pitcher-106133335.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=744\" alt=\"Exclusive | Mets getting calls about potential Paul Blackburn trade\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Blackburn<\/strong> continued his rehab assignment on Tuesday in Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets&#8217; right-hander found himself in immediate trouble as he allowed a leadoff triple to <strong>MJ Melendez<\/strong> in the top of the first &#8212; he scored the first run of the game just a few pitches later on a groundout.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn was extremely effective from there &#8212; setting down the next five hitters before allowing a leadoff single to <strong>Diego Castillo<\/strong> in the third.<\/p>\n<p>After breezing past that, he put together another stretch of five consecutive retired before issuing a leadoff walk in the fifth &#8212; a stolen base pushed that runner into scoring position, but a punchout sandwiched between two fly outs helped Blackburn dance out of danger.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to the mound for the sixth but was pulled after allowing a single.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin Hagenman<\/strong> entered in relief and worked around a double to close Blackburn\u2019s final line with just the one run allowed on three hits and a walk while striking out five across as many innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He was able to stretch out to 72 pitches after throwing just 53 during his first rehab appearance last week.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how the Mets use Blackburn when he is finally able to return from his shoulder injury with both <strong>Kodai Senga<\/strong> and <strong>Sean Manaea<\/strong> back healthy and in the rotation.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old has pitched to a 7.71 ERA and 1.98 WHIP across six outings (four starts) this season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Paul Blackburn was strong tonight in his rehab start for Triple-A Syracuse:<\/p>\n<p>5+ IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K (72 pitches) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1ELdbxqtT9\">pic.twitter.com\/1ELdbxqtT9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNY_Mets\/status\/1947810882823569467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mets right-hander Paul Blackburn continued his rehab assignment on Tuesday in Triple-A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":82057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2599,2050,2093,2137,2600,2191,2186,2129,2204],"class_list":["post-82055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-diego-castillo","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-kodai-senga","tag-mets","tag-mj-melendez","tag-paul-blackburn","tag-rehab-assignment","tag-sean-manaea","tag-sny-mets"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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