Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic <\/p>\n
The growing segment of Mets fans who wanted a change in the starting rotation are going to have to wait.<\/p>\n
Jose Quintana isn\u2019t going anywhere after this outing.<\/p>\n
The veteran left-hander, who had failed to record an out in the fifth inning in each of his previous two starts, picked a good time to deliver one of his best performances of the season, particularly with young pitchers Jose Butto and Christian Scott performing well in Triple-A.<\/p>\n
Quintana allowed just a Jackson solo homer across six sterling innings, leading the Mets to their fourth straight win, 5-1, over the Padres at Citi Field on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u201cI needed this kind of outing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
A free agent to be, the 35-year-old Quintana allowed just two hits, walked two and struck out six in his best start in quite some time. <\/p>\n
The southpaw pitched to a 7.20 ERA in May and was shaky in his two June starts, giving up six earned runs to the Phillies and Diamondbacks over 7 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings. He entered with a 5.29 ERA and 1.43 WHIP.<\/p>\n
He was significantly better against the Padres. <\/p>\n
Quintana made a concerted effort to work inside to keep them off the plate to set up his off-speed stuff, and it worked. <\/p>\n
The six strikeouts were a season-high, and the two hits were a season-low. He recorded eight swings and misses, up from two in his previous outing. <\/p>\n
The return of catcher Francisco Alvarez, who returned on this homestand after missing six weeks with a torn ligament in his left thumb, made a difference for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmazing. I really missed him a lot,\u201d Quintana said. \u201cGreat energy, he always brings good ideas. He\u2019s really special, I really like [pitching to] him. \u2026 He\u2019s always on top of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
San Diego didn\u2019t have more than one hitter reach base in any of Quintana\u2019s six innings. <\/p>\n
His one big mistake came in the fifth, an inner-half sinker that Merrill launched 411 feet for his seventh homer. <\/p>\n
The Mets had Dedniel Nunez warming up in the sixth when Fernando Tatis Jr. walked with one out. But Quintana got Jurickson Profar to ground into a 5-4-3 double play to complete his day.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I finished with the double play, it made me feel great,.\u201d Quintana said. \u201cMy pitches were really good. As soon as I saw the ground ball, I said, \u2018we got it\u2019 It\u2019s a good win. It\u2019s fun when you do things like that. Baseball feels fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic The growing segment of Mets fans who wanted a change in the starting rotation are going to have to wait. Jose Quintana isn\u2019t going anywhere after this outing. The veteran left-hander, who had failed to record an out in the fifth inning in each<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-125514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125516,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125514\/revisions\/125516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}