“When we’re all gone and Suhboda [sic] stays and he commences to hit balls over buildings, who says he won’t lead this club to ten or a dozen pennants?” – Casey Stengel, spring training, 1965 The Mets, sudden winners and the current innamorata of New York City, have never lacked for “folk heroes” – players [...]
Eight innings, four hits, four strikeouts, no walks. This may look like a fairly pedestrian pitching line for the Zack Grienkes or Adam Wainwrights of the world, but this might have been Matt Harvey's best game of the season. Keeping the Colorado offense off balance all night, Harvey used every weapon in his arsenal without [...]
What a difference a week makes. Exactly seven days ago, the 2015 New York Mets baseball season appeared to be at its lowest ebb. The team had just lost a soul-crushing, gut-punching, spirit-killing -- and whatever other adjectives have been driven into the ground by this beleaguered fan base – loss to the egregious San [...]
The Mets' offense flashed back to its pre-trade doldrums for seven innings, then erupted. And the eruption wasn't caused by any of the new faces. Tied at one in the top of the eighth, Lucas Duda led off with a base hit off the right field wall. Travis d'Arnaud followed with a roller through the [...]
Things had been looking so good of late. Sandy Alderson had finally responded to what had become patently obvious to the more observant quadrants of Mets fandom. Even the densest of us could see that an offensive upgrade was needed, but to the more nuanced eye, even an incremental improvement would make a pretty substantial [...]
Jenrry Mejia's stupidity has cost the Mets his services for the foreseeable future. The Mets will not be reacquainted with Jose Reyes, nor will they be acquiring his new teammate, Carlos Gonzales. David Wright took a few tentative grounders on the Citi Field dirt. But none of that matters tonight. Let the rest of the [...]
Jeurys Familia blew his second save in a week. The Mets didn't hit all that much against Zack Grienke. In fact, they had no extra-base hit at all, technically. And they won, anyway. Juan Uribe blasted a ball off the wall in the bottom of the 10th, scoring Curtis Granderson, who had led off with [...]
Hot town, summer in the City…or Citi, if you will. The temperatures in the New York-Metro area have ratcheted up significantly in the last week and a half. In typical NYC summer fashion, the mercury has reached the 90s, bringing with it shirt-drenching humidity. Par for the course in these parts, for sure, but for [...]
Right now, Met fans are angry, getting angrier by the day. They see a team so close to contention, with marvelous pitching, just one game out of a playoff spot. They see a team that has to struggle for every run, for every chance at scoring a run. They know – as much as they [...]
The great pitcher and linguist Dizzy Dean told us a long time ago that he’d “rather be lucky than good.” It took a long time to figure out exactly what he meant. Then the 2015 Mets happened. Yes, these Mets. At first flush, you’d think they’ve anything but lucky and in more than a couple [...]
The Mets faced a reeling San Francisco Giants team and reeled 'em right in. They also got a measure of revenge against their no-hit nemesis in the process. Chris Heston started for the Giants and any thought of his repeating his dominant performance in New York went out the window when Ruben Tejada -- the [...]
The New York Post, of all things, published an article yesterday, actually painting a hopeful picture for the return of David Wright later this summer. While we all know this is designed to sell newsprint more than anything, it also holds out a branch that could possibly pull the Mets out of the offensive funk [...]