Dominic Smith hit a heroic late-inning home run. Rhys Hoskins hit an even more heroic, later one to give the Phillies the first game of this series. The Mets took an early lead when Jay Bruce peppered Aaron Nola's first pitch of the second inning over the right centerfield wall. That didn't last long. Jorge [...]
Thanks in part to the pitching of Zack Wheeler and the stunningly atrocious defense of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the New York Mets were able to defeat the Dodgers 7-3 and take the series two games to one. When Wheeler takes the mound for the Mets, one gets the feeling that the team has a [...]
Well, all good things must come to an end. So it was with Jason Vargas's recent "hot streak," which crumbled over his ears in the course of three-and-a-third innings. To be fair, though, this wasn't anybody's best night. The Mets actually had a decent lead at the start. Todd Frazier led off the second with [...]
The great Baltimore manager Earl Weaver once famously said "The secret to baseball is simple: starting pitching and three-run homers." The Mets employed that philosophy to a T on Labor Day, 2018. Jacob deGrom opened this series in Los Angeles historically, but inauspiciously. With one out in the bottom of the first, ol' pal Justin [...]
Noah Syndergaard pitched his best game of the season to lead the Mets to a 4-1 win over the Giants for the series win in San Francisco. Syndergaard notched the first complete game of his career and was in command from the first pitch, striking out 11 and allowing just two hits over nine innings. [...]
A combination of effective pitching and timely hitting helped the New York Mets in their efforts of beating the San Francisco Giants 2-1 in 11 innings. On the mound for the Mets in AT&T Park today was the lefty Steven Matz, and he pitched nearly flawless over the seven innings that he was in the [...]
The Giants decided they had enough of the pitchers’ duel and they exploded for six runs in the eighth inning, leading to a 7-0 win in the series opener in San Francisco Friday night. Zack Wheeler put in another terrific outing, allowing just one run in seven innings. He struck out nine and did not [...]
The Mets completed their Dog Days slog of 21 games in 20 days the way they began it: with a win. Two four-run innings put a hurt on the Chicago Cubs in this one. Jason Vargas took on Alec Mills in an afternoon affair, upon completion of last night's suspended game. Vargas was the beneficiary [...]
Although it took a suspended game, buckets of rain, and a myriad of infield hits, the New York Mets eventually dropped their 11 inning affair to the Chicago Cubs 2-1. This game was the textbook definition of what a pitcher’s duel is. With two elite pitchers, Jacob deGrom and Cole Hamels, on the mound, the [...]
The Mets’ bullpen again gave up a bunch of runs late, leading to a 7-4 loss to the Cubs Monday night in Chicago. After a Kevin Plawecki homer in the top of the seventh inning tied the score, Jerry Blevins came on to start the bottom of the inning and proceeded to allow three straight [...]
If you want to know what's wrong with the Mets, this game will tell you everything you need to know. A sterling starting pitching effort was done in by 2018's greatest hits: invisible offense, shoddy defense and deplorable bullpen work. It was shaping up to be another NY-Washington mano-a-mano affair, an extremely close game, but [...]
Zack Wheeler turned in another outstanding performance to lead the Mets to a 3-0 win over the Nationals. It was the second straight day the Mets won by that score. Wheeler went seven shutout innings to win for the seventh time in his last eight games. He lowered his season ERA to 3.46 with the [...]