CINCINNATI — Todd Frazier is among the Mets’ elder statesmen, but that didn’t stop him from making a rookie mistake Saturday.
The Mets third baseman believed the grounder Aristides Aquino hit to him near the bag in the first inning was foul and delayed in his throw to first base. Aquino was safe for an RBI single that gave the Reds their first run in a 3-2 victory.
“I assumed, and you are not supposed to assume in baseball,” Frazier said. “I made a boneheaded mistake.”
Only exacerbating matters, Frazier had booted Eugenio Suarez’s grounder for an error in the previous at-bat, allowing the Reds to load the bases.