{"id":684599,"date":"2026-03-27T03:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/684599\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:11:15","slug":"luis-robert-delivered-a-debut-that-allows-the-mets-to-dream-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/684599\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Robert delivered a debut that allows the Mets to dream big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets made facing Paul Skenes a fair fight \u2014 nine against one.<\/p>\n<p>No pitcher in the Live Ball Era (since 1920) had a lower ERA in their first 55 starts than the 1.96 of the 2024 NL Rookie of the Year and the 2025 NY Cy Young winner.<\/p>\n<p>Which made what the Mets did in the Pirate righty\u2019s 56th start such an incredible opening statement for 2026. Fittingly, in what <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/26\/sports\/new-look-mets-torture-paul-skenes-in-opening-day-win-over-pirates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">would become an 11-7 Mets triumph<\/a> Thursday, Skenes faced all nine hitters in the first inning \u2014 and was knocked out by the full blunt force of the group.<\/p>\n<p>The two-thirds of an inning was by far the shortest start in Skenes\u2019 so far near-impeccable career. The five runs tied for the most he had allowed \u2014 and that was in six innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets made facing Paul Skenes a fair fight \u2014 nine against one. No pitcher in the Live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":684600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13247,1266,285164,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,2632,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-684599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-luis-robert-jr","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-opening-day","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116298952526636857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684599","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=684599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}