Last night Mets infielder Jose Reyes was rushed into emergency pitching service due to an historic blowout at the hands of the Washington Nationals. He didn’t fare well, giving up two homers. One to Matt Adams, one to Mark Reynolds. Today in what can only be described as an act of scheduling cruelty, the Mets had to face the Nats once again. As I type this the Mets are certainly losing — 5-2 — and that can’t be too terribly surprising. But Reyes has evened his personal ledger to some extent, hitting two homers of his own: a solo shot in the fifth and a second solo shot in the eighth. Shohei Ohtani‘s career is just getting started, so it’s not out of the question that he’ll give up two homers one night and hit two the next day himself, but for now I think it’s safe to say that Reyes is in some pretty singular territory. Your browser does not support iframes. Follow @craigcalcaterra<doc-sep>WASHINGTON (AP) — In the highest-scoring game in franchise history, Daniel Murphy hit two early home runs and the Washington Nationals kept pouring it on against emergency reliever Jose Reyes and the New York Mets in a 25-4 rout Tuesday night. Trea Turner, who apologized before the game to his teammates for homophobic and racially insensitive tweets he sent several years ago, had four of Washington’s 26 hits. Pitcher Tanner Roark hit a three-run double during a seven-run first inning. The Nationals set the team scoring mark dating to their days as the Montreal Expos in 1969. It was the Mets’ most-lopsided loss in their 57-season history, worse than a 26-7 pounding by Philadelphia in 1985. Reyes made the first pitching appearance of his career, and the 35-year-old infielder got tagged for home runs by Matt Adams and Mark Reynolds in a six-run eighth. Throwing a fastball in the mid-80s mph and a curve in the upper 40s, Reyes gave up five hits and walked two. Reyes also plunked Ryan Zimmerman with a soft toss. After getting hit in the leg, Zimmerman playfully faked a charge toward the mound, drawing a laugh from Reyes, who wore one of ace Jacob deGrom’s gloves on the mound. The game got so out of hand, Mets television announcers Keith Hernandez, Ron Darling and Gary Cohen took turns reading verbatim from the team’s media guide in the late innings — the SNY network played the theme from “Masterpiece Theatre” in the background. Murphy drove in six runs, Anthony Rendon had four RBIs and Zimmerman also homered. Ahead 7-0, the Nationals then scored exactly three runs in the second, third, fourth and fifth innings. Hours after general manager Mike Rizzo capped a relatively uneventful trade deadline day by expressing his confidence in the Nationals as currently constituted, Washington broke loose in evening its record at 53-53. Bryce Harper, who had been mentioned in trade speculation, hit a pair of RBI doubles and scored three times. Leading 25-1 in the ninth, the Nationals still hit a little speed bump at the end. Reliever Shawn Kelley gave up a home run to Austin Jackson, wound up and flung his glove to the ground. Jeff McNeil hit his first career home run. As he headed from the plate back the Mets dugout, he already had the souvenir. The ball came back on the field, and was flipped to him before he reached the bench. Roark (5-12) went seven innings. Steven Matz (5-9) got only two outs and allowed seven runs in the shortest start of his career. Murphy had an RBI single in the first, a two-run homer in the second and a three-run drive in the third. The ex-Met is hitting .391 (59 for 151) with 11 homers and 43 RBIs against New York. TRAINER’S ROOM Mets: 1B Wilmer Flores left the game in the first inning with dehydration and dizziness. . INF Todd Frazier (left rib cage muscle strain) is scheduled to play nine innings in a rehab assignment in Brooklyn on Wednesday. . Manager Mickey Callaway said OF Jay Bruce (sore right hip) will start hitting on Wednesday. Nationals: Manager Dave Martinez said RHP Stephen Strasburg (cervical nerve impingement) played catch yesterday and could progress through his throwing program rapidly. . RHP Sean Doolittle (left foot stress reaction) had an MRI on Monday which was virtually unchanged from last week. Doolittle was hoping for improvement, but said the trainers were pleased there was no change. UP NEXT Mets RHP Noah Syndergaard (6-1, 2.89) returns from the disabled list to oppose LHP Tommy Milone (0-0, 5.40) in the series finale. (© Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)<doc-sep>He allowed a run in the first inning on a Bryce Harper RBI single and then a two-run shot from Anthony Rendon in the bottom of the third. After Rendon’s homer to left, Syndergaard settled in and retired the next 12 Nats he faced before ex-Met Daniel Murphy singled in the seventh.<doc-sep>WASHINGTON — Day after day, year after year, decade after decade, the Mets experience arguably more run-ins with wackiness than any other professional sports outfit. This week at Nationals Park, the spinner turned to Jose Reyes. The Mets’ veteran didn’t start either game here, yet by the end of the Mets’ 5-3 loss to their divisional rivals Wednesday afternoon, he had carved a remarkable niche in baseball history. Never before in the game’s modern era had a player given up two home runs in one game and then hit two home runs in the very next game. According to Elias Sports Bureau, Hall of Famer Cap Anson of the Chicago White Sox had turned the trick in 1884, but on Wednesday Reyes became the first to do it since. Sing it with The Post now: That’s so #Mets. “I didn’t even know that,” Reyes said, smiling. “It feels very good, but still, we lost the game after a tough loss [Tuesday] night. It would’ve been better if we came out with a win today, but it didn’t happen.” Yeah, whatever; the Mets stink and are going nowhere. At least Reyes registered an 18-ish-hour stretch he won’t forget. He made his professional pitching debut in Tuesday night’s 25-4 drubbing by the Nationals, the Mets’ worst loss (by run differential) in their 57-year history. While throwing the bottom of the eighth inning, Reyes surrendered six runs, including homers by Nats Matt Adams and Mark Reynolds. Then, on Wednesday, Reyes entered the game as an injury replacement for second baseman Phillip Evans in the second inning. He proceeded to go deep off Washington starter Tommy Milone in the third inning and then again off reliever Ryan Madson in the eighth. Just to round it out, he committed a throwing error in the bottom of the eighth to start a two-run Washington rally that proved to be the difference in the scoring. Reyes now has three homers in what has been a miserable season for him and his club. His topsy-turvy stay in DC provided a respite from that, especially by checking a box on his professional bucket list when he took the mound. Asked whether he received many text messages after his 48-pitch performance on Tuesday, Reyes said: “Oh my God. You don’t even know. Everybody. Every friend that I have who plays in the major leagues right now and some guys from the minor leagues texted me, too.” Injured Mets teammate David Wright hadn’t reached out, said Reyes, who added, “I’m going to get one from him.” His friends asked, via text, “’Man, what did you do?’ I said I tried my best. At least I got out of the inning.” That’s what Steven Matz, who started Tuesday’s debacle, said to Reyes. The southpaw recorded just two outs, allowing seven runs, before departing, and now he’s facing tests for tightness in his left forearm. “You pitched better than me,” Matz told Reyes, according to Reyes. He hit better, too. While it won’t help much in the Mets’ season, it did get Reyes a special, wacky place in the game’s history books.<doc-sep>
WASHINGTON — Jose Reyes pitched about as effectively as he has hit and fielded this year. A historic 25-4 loss to the Nationals for the Mets on Tuesday night — the worst loss by run differential in their 57-year history — wrapped up on an appropriately ghoulish note at Nationals Park when Reyes, the longtime Met, took the mound for the bottom of the eighth inning and got knocked around for six runs, including two homers. The 35-year-old threw an astounding 48 pitches to get through his professional pitching debut, leaving with his career ERA of 54.00. “When you’re on the mound, before you throw a pitch, it’s fun,” Reyes said. “But when you start to see people hit a homer and stuff, then you get more serious.” The Mets used six pitchers to get through the first seven innings, and it was in the sixth inning, manager Mickey Callaway said, when he approached Reyes about pitching. With Noah Syndergaard returning from the disabled list to start Wednesday’s series finale, Callaway explained, he wanted to ensure he had enough relievers available. Hence the turn to Reyes, one of two remaining bench players (along with Devin Mesoraco) who hadn’t entered the game yet. Besides, Reyes said, he had long wanted to pitch in a game. Last year, he patrolled center field in one game, achieving another career-long dream. Using a quick, shot-putting delivery, Reyes alternated between a fastball that topped out at 87 mph and a curveball that bottomed out at 54 mph. That pitch hit Ryan Zimmerman, prompting the Nationals veteran to jokingly take a step toward the mound. Matt Adams and Mark Reynolds clobbered homers off Reyes, and after the Nats batted around, pitching coach Dave Eiland went to the mound to check on Reyes. The Mets warmed up pitcher Paul Sewald as a precaution. Reyes recorded a third out, though, when Washington rookie Juan Soto flied out to Michael Conforto in left field. That finished a trying night in this very trying season for Reyes and his team. “I’m glad that I got out of the inning and Mickey didn’t have to use another position player or pitcher,” said Reyes, who admitted peeking at the ballpark’s radar gun a few times. Following his first mound appearance since he was a pre-teen, Reyes smiled at the question of whether he’d be available for Wednesday. “Not to pitch,” he said.