Kyle Schwarber clubbed three home runs to lead the Nationals to a 5-2 win over the Mets Sunday afternoon in Washington. Taijuan Walker didn’t have his best stuff and the first three hitters for the Nats all hit rockets. Schwarber led off with a homer, the next batter hit one two steps deep on the [...]
Jacob deGrom has left early in both of his last two starts, leading the armchair doctors to speculate that it’s all because of the effort/velocity which he throws his pitches. Never mind that deGrom himself has said that swinging the bat is what has caused him the most trouble. Never mind that that neither one [...]
Francisco Lindor homered twice and drove in all five runs, leading the Mets to a 5-1 win in the opener of the doubleheader with the Nationals and ultimately a split of the twinbill Saturday night in Washington. Lindor gave the Mets the early lead when he hit a two-run homer in the top of the [...]
You’ve got to score to win and for the second straight night the Mets were shut out, losing this time, 1-0 to the Nationals Friday night in Washington in the opener of a four-game series. Luis Rojas made his second mid-inning pitching change of the game, bringing on Seth Lugo in the eighth inning. Lugo [...]
Before the season started, this figured to be the Mets’ most challenging time with the schedule. After seven games with the Padres and Cubs, they were going to have a host of games against division rivals. The hope was that by now the rotation would be complete and that the club would be at full [...]
In his last three games, Dominic Smith is 4-9 with a double and two homers. It seems like every time that Smith or Pete Alonso or Francisco Lindor strings together a handful of games with good results that we’re expecting them to put up a month-long stretch like this and it just hasn’t happened yet. [...]
Dominic Smith and Kevin Pillar each hit solo homers and drove in two runs, as the Mets survived an early exit from Jacob deGrom to post a 6-3 win over the Cubs Wednesday night in Citi Field. It was the Mets’ fourth-straight win and pushed their record to 35-25. In last year’s 60-game season, the [...]
In revamping their pitching staff this past offseason, the first thing the Mets did was to extend the Qualifying Offer to Marcus Stroman. Now, MLB deadline dates made that a necessity. Still, the Mets willingly paid the freight for a pitcher who sat out the year before. And it ended up being the highest AAV [...]
David Peterson mocks those who were clamoring for him to be removed from the rotation, as he throws six shutout innings against a Cubs team that came in with a five-game winning streak, leading the Mets to a 5-2 win Monday night at Citi Field. In his previous two starts, Peterson allowed 11 H and [...]
Maybe the Mets were just destined to lose today. Still, one can’t but help to think that the pitching moves made by Luis Rojas played a big part in this defeat, a 7-3 setback to the Padres, who avoided getting swept with the victory. Joey Lucchesi, who they keep on a tighter leash than Jacob [...]
Coming into this year, Jonathan Villar had a lifetime OPS+ of 95 in 3,209 lifetime PA in the majors. That’s a little misleading, as he struggled in his first two half seasons in the majors and was terrible last year. From 2015-2019, he had a 101 OPS+ in 2,472 PA. After yesterday’s homer and HBP, [...]
Marcus Stroman turned in another strong start and Francisco Lindor did it at the plate and in the field, leading the Mets to a 4-1 win over the Padres Saturday afternoon at Citi Field. The win put the Mets eight games over .500, a season high for the club. In the bottom of the first [...]