from a shaky start last week in Cleveland<\/a> was a welcome sign. Thursday, he had his worst start of the season, surrendering five earned runs over five innings.\u00a0<\/p>\nOverall, he\u2019s pitched to a 3.42 ERA in 24 starts this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s still a lot of work to do,\u201d McLean said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of games left this season. I wouldn\u2019t say the body of work is finished. I can learn every time we go out there and each lineup is completely different, too. So, I think it proposes a good challenge every time we go out there on how to navigate lineups multiple times through the order. The goal is to keep learning from that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Atlanta Braves shortstop Jim Jarvis (74) throws for a double play in front of New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor (12) during the first inning at Truist Park in Cumberland, Georgia, on Aug. 11, 2026. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
The Mets had averaged 7.1 runs over the previous seven games, but on this night were stifled by lefty Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez. They were also shut out in their other loss on this road trip, Saturday in Pittsburgh.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A.J. Ewing\u2019s full-extension, diving catch racing toward the foul line in left field deprived Mauricio Dub\u00f3n of a hit to conclude the second inning. McLean raised his right arm to celebrate the play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Albies homered leading off the home fifth, jumping on an 0-2 fastball and clearing the right field fence to give the Braves a 1-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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The Mets wasted an opportunity in the sixth, putting runners on the corners with one out before Carson Benge grounded into an inning-ending double play against P\u00e9rez, who before the night concluded extended his scoreless streak to 18 innings. The lefty allowed four hits and three walks over six innings, departing after 82 pitches.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c[P\u00e9rez\u2019s] change-up was really special,\u201d Green said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t make the appropriate adjustments to it. He only left a couple of them up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Matt Olson of the Atlanta Braves reacts as he rounds first base after hitting a two-run homer in the eighth inning against the New York Mets at Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Jefry Yan walked Matt Olson and Albies in the seventh. Dub\u00f3n\u2019s sacrifice fly extended the Braves lead to 2-0. The lefty Yan was removed with two outs in the inning after walking Lane Thomas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chayce McDermott allowed a two-run homer to Olson in the eighth that sank the Mets into a 4-0 hole. Olson\u2019s homer was his 35th this season, which tied him for the major league lead with Kyle Schwarber, Yordan Alvarez and Junior Caminero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 August\u2019s dog days have nothing on Nolan McLean.\u00a0 At a time of the season when concerns…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":995469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1280,1266,405,403,1305,5226,5225,85371,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-995468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-nolan-mclean","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117080842964893379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995468","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=995468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/995469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}