{"id":122493,"date":"2025-08-06T02:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122493\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T02:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:43:09","slug":"edwin-diazs-historic-mets-stretch-has-been-two-years-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122493\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwin Diaz&#8217;s historic Mets stretch has been two years in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edwin\u00a0D\u00edaz\u00a0has enjoyed some dominant stretches before, but the Mets closer is currently riding an unrivaled heater both personally and across franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz\u2019s scoreless inning Monday night gave him 19 consecutive appearances over more than two months without allowing an earned run. He has only been charged with one over his past 34 relief outings since April 23, and his 0.26 ERA over that span represents both the best 34-game stretch of his career and the lowest ever by any Mets reliever.<\/p>\n<p>Before Tuesday\u2019s game against the Guardians, the three-time All-Star acknowledged this is \u201cthe best I\u2019ve felt\u201d since missing the entire 2023 season with a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/24\/sports\/mets-edwin-diaz-open-to-playing-in-world-baseball-classic-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">knee injury suffered in the World Baseball Classic<\/a> earlier that year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne hundred percent,\u201d\u00a0D\u00edaz\u00a0told The Post outside the dugout during batting practice. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time that I haven\u2019t given up [an earned] run. I always look at my stats and I know how I\u2019m doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edwin\u00a0D\u00edaz\u00a0has enjoyed some dominant stretches before, but the Mets closer is currently riding an unrivaled heater both personally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,31972,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-122493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-edwin-diaz","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-plus","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114979524334861057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}