On a beautiful spring evening in New York, the Mets hosted the Nationals and the Nationals brought their hitting shoes early. After David Peterson got the first out of the game, he gave up a single, a walk to Juan Soto, hit Nelson Cruz and gave up a two run single to the opposite field [...]
How many times does a guy make a great defensive play and then come up third in the next inning? All kidding aside, Eduardo Escobar made a great play in the top of the 10th inning and then came up in the bottom of the inning and delivered a rocket to right field, driving home [...]
The Mets cruised to an 8-2 victory over their division rival the Phils before a crowd of 37,445 at Citi Field. The first-place Mets improved their record to 31-17. The home-town nine drew first blood in the second when Starling Marte motored into third base on a single to right by Mark Canha, and then [...]
The game shouldn’t have been this close. But Edwin Diaz came on with filthy stuff, struck out Bryce Harper and Nick Castellanos after a one-out bloop hit to close the game and give the Mets an 8-6 win over the Phillies Friday night at Citi Field. The Mets are now 7-3 against the Phillies this [...]
Thomas Szapucki’s first MLB start was an utter disaster, as he gave up 4 HR and 9 ER in 1.1 IP, as the Mets lost the rubber game of the series, 9-3, against the Giants Wednesday afternoon in San Francisco. Szapucki was consistently in the mid-90s with his fastball but he couldn’t throw his breaking [...]
The Mets and Giants played the middle game of the three game set with Chris Bassitt facing Logan Webb, and the Giants took the lead first. Two batters into the Giants first turn at bat, it was second and third with Darin Ruf coming up. Ruf got a run in on a grounder, but the [...]
A later starting west coast game in always dreary San Francisco marked David Peterson’s return to the rotation. The Giants and Mets traded zeros in the first inning, and the second inning was the same for the Mets, but not the Giants. Brandon Crawford hit a home run to dead center and Peterson looked like [...]
Taijuan Walker pitched seven scoreless innings leading the Mets to just their second shutout win in the history of Coors Field, as they downed the Rockies, 2-0 on Sunday afternoon. The win upped the Mets’ record to 14-1 after a loss and gave them another series win. Walker had all of his pitches working and [...]
No one should be subjected to a doubleheader at Coors Field. The Mets didn’t play particularly well in either game and should be considered lucky to get away with a split. They took the first game, 5-1, and got trounced in the second, 11-3 Starling Marte returned from the bereavement list and homered on the [...]
Pete Alonso crushed a two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th inning, lifting the Mets to a 7-6 win over the Cardinals Thursday afternoon. The Mets won the four-game series, 3-1, and took the season series by a 5-2 margin. The Mets twice lost two-run leads in this game. They scored two runs in [...]
The Mets’ offense came out in a big way with 11 runs but the story of the game was Max Scherzer coming out of the game in a middle of an AB. After throwing a pitch, Scherzer immediately said he was done, going so far to make the throat-slash gesture. Later in the contest it [...]
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. For at least the fifth time this year, Buck Showalter opted to send back a middle reliever when he didn’t have to, just to get the platoon advantage against a non-elite hitter. Joely Rodriguez got the last out of the eighth inning and Adam Ottavino was [...]