The Mets got standout performances from two of their offseason free agent signings and beat nemesis Gio Gonzalez and the Washington Nationals, 3-0, Friday night. It was unfathomable in, say, June that Jason Vargas and Jay Bruce would be heroes in the same game. But Vargas pitched six shutout innings while Bruce, in his first [...]
Jacob deGrom was terrific, but to beat Madison Bumgarner who has never lost to the Mets, you need to be flawless. Luck helps too, and deGrom had none of it. deGrom struck out 10 and allowed just one earned run in six innings so he keeps his Major League leading ERA intact, but he takes [...]
The Mets used power pitching and power hitting to earn a 5-3 win over the Giants Wednesday night in Citi Field. Noah Syndergaard earned his team-leading ninth win by going six strong innings. He allowed just one walk and totaled six strikeouts in the game. And the Giants did not have a single stolen base [...]
The Mets fell behind early but staged a late comeback and emerged with a 6-3 win over the Giants Tuesday night at Citi Field. Steven Matz surrendered a two-run homer to toasty Evan Longoria in the first inning and that looked like it was going to be enough, as old nemesis Chris Stratton blanked the [...]
And the 2018 Luis Castillo Two Hands Award goes to... Amed Rosario, come on down! Dominic Smith receives the 2018 Richie Ashburn Yo La Tengo Award, as well. Zack Wheeler now shares Jacob deGrom's pain, as a brilliant start goes by the wayside. Wheeler pitched seven innings, surrendering five hits, walking one and striking out [...]
The Mets took the Little League Classic and the series with Phillies in a subtle 8-2 bludgeoning. Subtle, because, though they pounded out 14 hits, 13 of them were singles. The only extra-base knock was a pinch RBI double by forgotten man Dominic Smith in the eighth inning, when the game was basically a foregone [...]
Jacob deGrom gave the Mets another outstanding start and the offense contributed just enough to give him his third straight win, this one a 3-1 victory over the Phillies Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia. With fellow CY Award candidates Aaron Nola and Max Scherzer pitching very well yesterday, deGrom not only held serve – he upped [...]
The New York Mets allowed the Philadelphia Phillies to run all over them, and the Phillies in turn defeated them 4-2. With Noah Syndergaard on the mound, you usually can expect two things: that he will throw a good outing, and that the opposing team will steal a lot of bases. Well, Syndergaard was not [...]
The Mets couldn’t make it three straight double-digit offensive outbursts, as they dropped the second game of the doubleheader against the Phillies, 9-6. This was the third doubleheader of the year for the Mets and all three have resulted in splits. The game started off as a continuation of the first game, as the first [...]
If you thought the Mets had an offensive explosion last night, you should have seen them Thursday afternoon, as they erupted for two dozen runs as they downed the Phillies, 24-4, in the first game of a doubleheader. Amed Rosario got things started with a leadoff homer. Rosario finished the day with a four-hit game [...]
The Mets offense jumped to life, scoring their most runs in a game since 2015, as they beat the Orioles, 16-5, Wednesday night in Baltimore. In the three previous games against the Orioles, the Mets managed just four runs. The Mets already had five runs on the board when they exploded for nine runs in [...]
The Mets wasted a rare solid outing from Jason Vargas as the bullpen coughed up two long balls and the middle of the order failed to come through with any hits. Vargas held the Orioles to one run through five innings and entered the sixth inning with a 2-1 lead, courtesy of RBI singles by [...]