In the end, Heliot Ramos was just like the rest of us -- staring in disbelief at Nolan McLean's insane stuff.
The Mets right-hander was unhittable for much of Friday’s start against the Giants at Oracle Park, taking a perfect game into the sixth inning, but his final strikeout of the game was especially filthy.
It’s not every day you see someone paint the inside corner with a breaking ball that moved nearly two feet. But that’s just what McLean did, throwing a front-door sweeper with 23 inches of horizontal break to catch Ramos looking for strike three.
Asked after the game what makes McLean so tough to hit, Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez didn’t need his interpreter to sum up his batterymate.
“Por que,” Alvarez told SNY's Steve Gelb, pausing a second to find the right word, “he’s nasty.”