The Mets fell behind 5-1, rallied to put the tying run on third base in the eighth inning, but came up just short, as they lost their second straight game to the Braves, this one by a 5-4 score Tuesday night. Things fell apart in the sixth and seventh innings. The Braves strung together some [...]
The Mets have gotten fantastic production from their rookie pitchers this year and the tendency is to lump them in together, especially Robert Gsellman and Seth Lugo. It seems to me that Lugo has received more publicity, so the focus today will be on Gsellman. The man with the funny name and the facial look [...]
The JV sqaud comes through!
The Mets rested many of their veterans after winning the first two games of the series and it paid off, as they emerged with a 3-2 win and a sweep of the Twins Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. The Mets looked primed to blow the game wide open in the first inning, as their first [...]
Back in the first decade of the 21st Century, much was made of the multi-culturalism of the Mets. Sports Illustrated ran a cover story in 2007 titled: “Mix Master: The Unlikely Story of How Omar Minaya Created the Melting-Pot Mets.” Flash forward to 2016 and you don’t hear a peep about that sort of thing. [...]
We're counting our chickens with a hatchet here!
Michael Salfino writes for the Wall Street Journal as well as Yahoo! Sports. A couple of days ago he posted this on social media: Painful night for Familia, #Mets fans but is this team even any good? Salfino’s a good guy, and a Mets fan, too. This wasn’t a putdown. Instead, it was a legitimate [...]
Do you have playoff fever?
The Mets said farewell to the House of Horrors known as Turner Field with a 10-3 victory Sunday afternoon. The Mets finished 67-106 lifetime in the soon to be vacated stadium. The Mets jumped on top early. Asdrubal Cabrera tripled with one out in the first and scored on an infield groundout by Yoenis Cespedes. [...]
A lot of Mets fans have never warmed up to Curtis Granderson. He got off to an incredibly bad start with the team in April of 2014 and seemingly fans have held that against him ever since. Or maybe it’s because he doesn’t hit for a shiny average and a lot of people still cling [...]
The Mets jumped out to the early lead but could not make it stand up, as they fell to the Braves in 10 innings, 4-3, Saturday night in Atlanta. Dansby Swanson led off the 10th with a single, went to second on a wild pitch and advanced to third on a single. It looked like [...]
The Mets are on their best hot streak of the year, having won 15 of their last 19 games. Back in 2011, after the conclusion of that season, I wrote an article about the top 10 hot streaks in team history. That article is getting some views now, so it seems like a good time [...]