The Mets win their ninth straight game and run their home record to 8-0 with a 7-1 win over the Braves Tuesday night. Atlanta came into the game fourth in the NL with a 4.50 runs per game average but this was the seventh time this season they were held to three runs or fewer. [...]
Those of you who know your Mets history will recall that Joe Pignatano used to have a garden behind the outfield wall in Shea Stadium. According to legend, a tomato plant came up unexpectedly during the 1969 season and Pignatano – the team’s pitching coach and a recreational gardener - considered it a good omen. [...]
Nieuwenhuis gets all of the attention for opening with a four-hit game but he has plenty of company.
Brett Smiley at Fox Sports has a fun interactive quiz -- Distinguish sabermetrics terms from military acronyms. I expect everyone to get them all right. Take Quiz
It seems like there are a lot of Mets sites out there. But does anyone have any idea how many? It feels like the number should be in triple digits, but that’s just a guess. Let’s limit this to active blogs (pour out a 40 for the late, great 2 Guys Talking Mets) with a [...]
Like it was destined to be
Come enjoy the 8-figure paycheck, the company car, the groupies and all of the fame that comes along with being an internet blogger!
There are a couple of podcasts that I’ll be appearing on this week that would be wonderful if you could check out. Wednesday 12/3 at approximately 9:10 p.m. Eastern I’ll be with Taryn Cooper on “The Mets Lounge: Where the Cool Kids Hang Out!” Also scheduled to appear on the podcast are Greg Prince and [...]
You don't need no bad excuse
Mets pitchers have now gone 63 ABs without producing a hit. In honor of this dubious distinction, we're running a contest to see how long the streak lasts. Predict the following three things: 1. How many hitless ABs will the pitchers wind up with in 2014 2. Who will be the pitcher to get the [...]
Let’s be honest… baseball can be boring. On average, there are about 19 seconds between every pitch, which drives some people insane. When watching a game on TV, fans want to see action! But if there are only three pitches per minute, they begin to lose patience. In 2013 Andrew Daynes created an app named [...]