Carlos Mendoza on Jose Quintana 'dip', Mets ninth inning errors, scoreboard watching | SNY

Carlos after such a good stretch for cantana you started to dip in a little bit these last couple especially what have you seen in this recent little stretch. Yeah today, you know a couple pitches up in the zone hauling a breaking ball to Santander. Then the fastball up to McCann today pitch sequencing. Probably we need to do a better job there, you know throwing a hanging breaking ball there to some time there. He throws a fastball that looks like McCann is right on it and then he goes back to it. And you know, obviously clip them again. We just got to do a better job of keeping them in the park. You know, whether it's he's nibbling a little too much getting behind in counts, but then when he comes in in the zone, he's leaving pitches up. So in that doing damage, so yeah. He said it's got to continue to work. He's got to got to get through it. And because we're going to need them you mentioned keeping the ball in the yard, and I know that We've talked about this throughout the season a little bit but he was so good last year at not allowing the home run any idea why that has just been something that he's been unable to get back to this year. Yeah. I think he's a combination of a lot of things hidden getting behind in counts at times and then he's got to come in the middle of the Zone in knowing he's coming in his own. He's leaving pitches up whether he's a Fastball The two-seam the breaking ball and when you know, you're making mistakes like that especially against a team like this that they can hit them. To make you pay so back-to-back outings for him where he's been a struggle and we just got to continue to work with them. Zach you're committed to him making his next start. Yes, when you look at August. I think the era is 88 and a half here. How much is that kind of hurt when he struggled so much hurt your guys ability to kind of be more consistent. Yeah. Look he's going through it. He's meeting a few outings now where he's been a struggle and Not only would not get any length out of them. But it seems like, you know, we get down and get down. My few, but he's been through it before he's been in this league for a long time. He's going to find a way he'll continue to you know, watch film and work on his whether his mechanics sequencing game planning things like that. But yeah is he's been here before and he's gotten through it and I'm pretty sure he will hear. Tim what went through your mind watching that play in the top of the night. We just got to stop the play. You know, Nemo makes an attempt making a diving play can make the play and then we throw the ball home play at that point. We just got to stop the play, you know, once you start throwing the ball all over the places, he's not a good thing. So we just got to stop it there and and limit the damage. bill we may eat Dean Kramer so good today. Yeah the movement on his pitches. I thought the Sinker was moving big time today, especially the back door to ride is then the cutter that plays pretty much like a slider the split was good. I thought he was on today, you know, we don't do with the way he used the way he mixed all of his pitches and kept us off balance and again, but the movement overall today was he was pretty sharp Joe. Just because I can't Anna is 35 and he didn't pitch a lot last year. Do you have any concerns? He's hitting a wall here and there is no bounce back for him this year. Now look, you know obviously weren't you know where we are on the schedule August he was hurt last year a lot. But physically he feels fine. You know, he continued to check all the boxes as far as you know strength and all the things that we do in the training room. I think he's just he not executing and like I said, there's a lot going on but physically he's fine. So I mean, do you even have an alternative right now if you wanted to try to do something? Well, I mean, we haven't got to that point. So right now he's on our rotation and we're gonna need him so happy you guys have been so good defensively these last couple months, but there were some Miss balls wobbles and you know kind of freak thing with Alvarez tripping was it just one of those games? Where was this? It's a mental mistakes are what do you attribute this and all you happens again? I think the one was in the ninth inning where we threw the ball around but I'll be trying to make play there. He's trying to be aggressive in you know before, you know, nobody's covering home plate and they score a run. But yeah, we've been pretty good. Like you said, especially the past couple of months and you know, we got good defensive players. We made some good plays, you know during this stretch you which is just one of those nights. And then do you take some kind of encouragement from that eighth inning where you guys were able to kind of muster some runs or was it just a case of too little too late? You think? Yeah, it's always good when you know, you're down 72 and then we're sending one whatever that was. But JD with a big Homer and get us back in the game, you know, give us a little bit of live, but at the end of the day, you know, we lost the game and you just got to be ready for tomorrow Manny kind of along those lines. And after that eighth inning and you know that the defensive blunders there, does that kind of suck the life out of that momentum you guys were kind of building there. Look. I mean we got back in the game and and then we give it right away. So, you know, I don't think so. They know the day we got to go out there and you know put together some good at-bats and he can get back, you know, put some Runners on base and trying to create something and we didn't so Yo, Carlos height. I know it's hard to ignore the scoreboard. But are you watching that Brave score more than any other time this year at this point? I'm gonna be honest with you Joel. No, I'm not watching because we got to we got to win our games here, you know, like if not winning. We're not winning games. It doesn't matter, you know, so I was I was not looking at this court today.