WASHINGTON — Zack Wheeler learned a lesson Sunday in the Mets’ 6-5 loss to the Nationals.
He vowed he will not make the same mistake again.
“I just think I got a little fastball happy,’’ Wheeler said.
In the third inning, after the Mets had taken a 1-0 lead, Victor Robles led off with a double down the left-field line and Adam Eaton followed with a single to center field.
Then on the first pitch to shortstop Trea Turner, a fastball, Turner turned on it and sent a rocket into the left-field seats, an estimated 440-foot blast.