On a day the Mets got some devastating news about the health of Lucas Duda, the Zen presence of Bartolo Colon once again calmed everyone's fears. Colon pitched seven mainly uneventful innings, allowing five singles and a bare first inning run. For their part, the Mets battered erstwhile Met-killer Gio Gonzalez to the tune of [...]
For the second straight day, Mets' relief pitchers tiptoed past the lions' den without disturbing a single sleeping feline. Early homers and stout bullpen work allowed the Mets to maintain their ultra-slim lead in the NL East. Curtis Granderson sent the first pitch of the game from Scott Kazmir into the right field stands and [...]
On Mother's Day, 2016, the Mets and San Diego Padres played one mother of a ballgame. It was hard fought, and kind of wild. The Mets took the field in all pink road uniforms, which simultaneously raised breast cancer awareness and made them look like nine giant bottles of Pepto-Bismol. Matt Harvey started for the [...]
The 2016 baseball season has just turned its first corner, the calendar flipping from April to May. The top two teams in the NL East should be sorry to see April leave. The Washington Nationals and the New York Mets have, as expected, set the pace in this division and while the other three teams [...]
The Mets cracked three homeruns in the first inning, then put the game on cruise control for a matter-of-fact 4-1 win over the Atlanta Braves. David Wright, Yoenis Cespedes and Lucas Duda all homered, sandwiched around a Michael Conforto single off Atlanta starter Mike Foltynewicz. Those were all the runs starter Bartolo Colon would need. [...]
You’d think a fella would know better. Your intrepid columnist has been down this road before and gotten burned, but some lessons come hard. Back in 1999, he left a famous playoff game early in deference to a pre-scheduled family function: yes, I missed the Todd Pratt moment of the Todd Pratt Game. I heard [...]
We all love a good recovery story, don’t we? A week ago, the Mets were a pitiable giant lumbering about the 2016 season, large but powerless. They lost two-of-three to both the Phillies and Marlins, neither of whom would be considered challengers for the NL East crown. The Mets weren’t hitting, getting mowed down by [...]
This one was just like Sandy Alderson and Terry Collins drew it up: power hitting and power arms. The Mets stroked four home runs -- two of them by David Wright, his first home runs and RBIs of the year -- in support of another masterful start by Noah Syndergaard. The one they call "Thor" [...]
It can safely be said that so far, the 2016 New York Mets’ season isn’t anything we signed up for. First of all, there’s this stumbling, troubling 3-5 start. As with all statistics in any game, that’s the bottom line. Did you win or did you lose? The fact that the Mets – overall consensus [...]
If the Mets are going to crap the bed, does it have to be vs. the Phillies and Marlins? The Mets are now 2-4 and looking listless. Tonight is a game best left forgotten. Steven Matz got the first two batters of the game out in neat and efficient fashion. The third hitter, Christian Yelich, [...]
For the Mets, it’s been an odd start to the 2016 season. First off, no one has ever opened a season with, basically, a continuation of the World Series. If Lucas Duda’s infamous throw had been on the money in game five, they would have headed back to Kansas City on November 2. Instead, it [...]
Well, that kind of stunk. The Mets traveled across the state of Florida to take on the power-laden Toronto Blue Jays in Dunedin: a three-and-a-half-hour bus ride to a place they hadn’t played in 27 years. As Adam Rubin pointed out on Twitter, there was a brawl that day. In a spring training game. Before [...]