Phillies news and rumors 5/30: Mets DFA pitcher after on-field, off-field meltdown

After tossing his glove high into the air and into the Citi Field stands following his ejection from Wednesday’s game, right-hander Jorge López stood by his actions; that, along with his other comments, appeared to cost him his spot on the Mets roster on Wednesday night.

Arguing a check swing, the reliever was ejected in the eighth inning of a 10-3 loss to the Dodgers. López untucked his jersey and threw his glove three rows deep into the seats behind the first-base dugout as he walked off the field. New York will designate the pitcher for assignment, according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post.

“No,” López told reporters after the game, “I don’t regret it.”

López continued with an explicit comment that was a bit tough to fully hear, either referring to the Mets as “the worst team, probably, in the whole f–king MLB” or calling himself the “worst teammate” in Major League Baseball. And while it’s tough to tell which he said at first, he pulled no punches when a follow-up was asked about if he believes he’s on baseball’s worst club.

“Yeah, probably,” López said. “It looked like.”

With the entire on- and off-field meltdown likely serving as López’s final moment for New York, his glove throw and postgame interview are a low point of a Mets season that already looks like a disaster. The team is 22-33, sitting 16 games behind the Phillies in fourth place in the National League East. The team has flat-out struggled and disappointed.

Closer Edwin Díaz hit the injured list before Wednesday’s game after a nightmare return to the mound to start the year, then slugger Pete Alonso took a pitch to the hand and left the contest early. And to add quite a bit of insult to those injuries, López capped it all off with his explosion and double-down, the symbol of the season so far in Queens.

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