Juan Lagares had a career day and the Mets established a Citi Field home run record as they pounded the Diamondbacks, 11-1, to earn a sweep of the four-game series. New York outscored Arizona, 26-4, in the four games and now hold a 1.5 game lead over the D’Backs in the Wild Card standings. Lagares [...]
After driving in all three runs in Tuesday’s win, Todd Frazier belted two home runs Wednesday to lead the Mets to a 9-0 win over the Diamondbacks Wednesday night. The Mets’ victory gave them the series win and they’ll go for the sweep Thursday afternoon. They also jumped ahead of the D’Backs in the race [...]
Zack Wheeler pitched his best game in a month, going seven strong innings to lead the Mets to a 3-2 win over the Diamondbacks in the second game of a four-game series. With the win, the Mets moved within a half game of the D'Backs in the race for the second Wild Card. Wheeler gave [...]
Pete Alonso hit two homers to back seven strong innings from Jacob deGrom, leading the Mets to a 3-1 win over the Diamondbacks in Citi Field Monday night. With the win, the Mets moved to within a game-and-a-half of the D’Backs in the Wild Card race. After yesterday’s demoralizing pitching effort, it was more of [...]
The Mets jumped out to a 3-0 lead but Noah Syndergaard and four relievers allowed 10 runs over a five-inning span, leading to a 10-7 win by the Phillies. Philadelphia took the crucial three-game series, 2-1. Wilson Ramos and Robinson Cano homered in back-to-back ABs in the first inning, staking the Mets to an early [...]
Marcus Stroman again failed to deliver a strong outing, giving up five runs in four innings, as the Mets dropped the middle game of the series to Philadelphia, 5-0, Saturday night at Citi Field. Stroman served up a gopher ball to the game’s first batter and had the bases loaded with one out before getting [...]
Pete Alonso drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the ninth inning to send the Mets to a 5-4 win over the Phillies Friday night in the first of a three-game series in Citi Field. The Mets have won five of their last seven games, with three of those coming against the Phillies. New [...]
The Mets pounded out 13 hits, including three homers, and put the ugliness from Tuesday night behind them with an 8-4 win over the Nationals. They ended their six-game road trip against division rivals ahead of them in the standings at 4-2. Robinson Cano made his first start since being activated from the IL and [...]
In a game they had no business losing, the Mets gave up seven runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to come out on the wrong end of an 11-10 score. It was an unfathomable ending to a game that had multiple twists and turns. This was the supposed to be the pitcher's duel [...]
Noah Syndergaard rebounded nicely from the worst start of his career last time out, throwing seven shutout innings to lead the Mets to a 7-3 win over the Nationals. The Mets now are 11-6 this year versus the Nationals. After allowing a leadoff single, Syndergaard retired 16 batters in a row. The Nationals had just [...]
The Phillies scored three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning, right after the Mets had tied the game in the top of the frame, and thus avoided getting swept, as they escaped with a 5-2 win Sunday night in Philadelphia. The Mets trailed 2-1, as they were thoroughly flustered by Zach Eflin. But [...]
Wilson Ramos and Todd Frazier combined for seven of the Mets’ 13 hits as the offense continues to enjoy its trip to Philadelphia, leading the Mets to a 6-3 win over the Phillies Saturday. With the victory the New York pulled to within half a game of Philadelphia in the standings. Ramos extended his hitting [...]