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Mets' Seth Lugo: Serves up three homers Monday

Lugo gave up four runs on eight hits, including three home runs, while striking out three in 4.1 innings during Monday's split-squad game against the Nationals.

Analysis:

The bout of gopheritis may have come at the worst possible time for the 27-year-old righty, as Zack Wheeler was busy holding the Marlins scoreless for five innings in the Mets' other game Monday. Lugo is still in the running to fill in for Steven Matz (elbow) as the fifth starter to begin the season, but his best argument for the job at this point may be the fact that Wheeler will be on a strict innings limit in 2017, and the team may want to save his return for later in the season rather than use up some of those innings in April.

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