If last night's game was for Clint Eastwood, tonight's would please James Taylor: walkin' man. The Cubs beat the Mets on a literal walkoff, as Chris Coghlan took ball four from Jeurys Familia with the bases loaded to untie a 1-1 game. This one can once again be hung on the Mets' dearth of offense, [...]
Clint Eastwood would have loved this game; it was the good, the bad and the ugly. The good: Noah Syndergaard made his major league debut and was mostly impressive. For five-plus innings, he arrived as advertised, if a bit wild. He mowed down the Cubs in the first two innings, but ran into trouble with [...]
This was a one-run game that the Mets were never in. Jacob deGrom took the mound at Wrigley Field, resplendent with new video boards and refurbished bleachers. He may as well have been back at Yankee Stadium, though. After hitting Dexter Fowler on the knee with the fourth pitch of the game, Kris Bryant christened [...]
As a Mets fan, you never know where you’re going to find yourself. Oh, sure, you have a general idea of what will happen: history tells us that more often than not, they’re going to be bad. But even being bad carries with it some surprises. As far back as 1963, the brilliant baseball essayist [...]
Dilson Herrera hammers as Jacob deGrom finds his deGroove. The Mets swept this abbreviated series with a decisive victory over Baltimore. For a game at least, the hitting looked almost formidable. Herrera gave us a glimpse of what has the scouts so excited for his future, turning in three-for-three performance, including his first home run [...]
Bartolo Colon put the "sink" in Cinco de Mayo. And the Orioles were sunk. Colon pitched masterfully, leaving the game with two outs in the eighth, having struck out nine men and walked none. The offense came alive -- for them, anyway -- with a three-run uprising in the fourth to give the Mets just [...]
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Sandy Alderson is going to have to take a hard look at his "defense doesn't matter" attitude. The Mets need middle infielders who can, well, middle infield if they're to have any hope of going far into the playoffs. The gut reaction tonight is revulsion. Jacob deGrom started out blazing, going through the entire Washington [...]
“Calm down; it’s only April.” “I didn’t know 162 games had passed already. Congratulations, NY Mets, on your World Series championship. Oh, wait…” “There’s a long way to go, and Washington will recover.” This is what the Mets fan has heard over the past two-and-a-half weeks. Over that span, the Mets have started 2015 like [...]
Not tonight, Josephine... The Miami Marlins scratched out a run in the bottom of the eighth to beat the Mets 4-3, in a game which looked an awful lot like the previous night's contest. Once again, offense was reserved for the later innings and a parade of hitters returned to their respective benches muttering. It [...]
Daniel Murphy's 3-run homer in the top of the 9th gave the Mets a most improbable and much needed win in the series opener in Miami. The Mets arrived in Florida at 4:30 AM and the offense showed it. Through 8 innings, the New Yorkers could only muster 2 hits, a 2 out single by [...]
In case you haven’t noticed -- if you’ve, say, been out of the country for the past two weeks, or buried in paperwork, or at the opera – the Mets have been playing spectacular baseball. As of this writing, they’re riding a club-record tying 11-game winning streak and have just completed their first ever 10-0 [...]