Pete Alonso hit two home runs and Kodai Senga pitched six strong innings to lead the Mets to an 11-2 win over the Cubs Monday night at Citi Field. The win snapped a six-game losing streak for the Mets and it was their first victory since the trade deadline. Alonso got the Mets on the [...]
Jose Quintana was very good. But it didn’t matter because he was done in by shaky fielding, an unspectacular pen and a non-existent offense. The end result was a 2-0 setback to the Orioles Sunday afternoon in Baltimore. The Mets have now lost six in a row since the trade deadline, showing almost no heart [...]
The good news is there was a Jeff McNeil sighting. McNeil had two hits including just his fourth home run of the season and drove in all three runs for the Mets. Also, the Mets tallied seven hits after five and four the last two games, respectively. One of the hits was Brandon Nimmo’s one-out [...]
The Mets didn’t get David Peterson stretched out in the bullpen to prepare for his return to the starting rotation. So, he left after three scoreless innings. The option relievers continued to be less than good and the end result was a 10-3 loss to the Orioles Friday night in Baltimore. John Curtiss was the [...]
If you like uninspired baseball, you’ve loved the past two games. The Mets were shut out for eight innings before losing by a 9-2 margin to the Royals. Kansas City, a team 40-games under .500, sweeps the three-game series. The Mets stacked their lineup with lefty hitters (note: Daniel Vogelbach did not play), with seven [...]
Steve Cohen came out to Kansas City to speak to his team. It didn’t help. The Mets got shut out by the lowly Royals, 4-0, Wednesday night. They’ll have to win Thursday afternoon to avoid the sweep. We probably should have known it wasn’t going to be the Mets’ night when they got the first [...]
The Mets lost on a walk-off balk. Let that roll around in your head for a minute. Is there a more soul-crushing way to lose a game? Which makes it the perfect way to end the day when they traded Justin Verlander. The Mets had leads of 1-0, 4-3 and 6-4 but lost to the [...]
In perhaps his last game as a Met, Justin Verlander recorded his 250th lifetime win, pitching the Mets to a 5-2 win over the Nationals Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. The Mets took three of four in this series of the two bottom teams in the NL East. It wasn’t an easy day for Verlander, [...]
Shortly before scheduled game time, news came out that the Mets and Rangers were finalizing a trade for Max Scherzer. The game with the last-place Nationals seemed to be a distant second in importance. And an 80-minute rain delay didn’t help any. And to top it all off, Carlos Carrasco once again didn’t make it [...]
Pete Alonso drove in all of the Mets’ runs with two homers to back seven strong innings from Max Scherzer to lead the way in a 5-1 win over the Nationals Friday night at Citi Field. The win upped the Mets’ record in July to 13-8. It was also just their 11th win in 35 [...]
The Mets rallied for two runs in the eighth inning, one before and one after a 90-minute weather delay, to rally to defeat the Nationals, 2-1, Thursday night at Citi Field. Kodai Senga started and pitched very but was on the short side of things, having allowed a solo run in his six innings of [...]
Once again, the Mets’ offense wasn’t up for the challenge. Combined with some shaky defense, the end result was a 3-1 loss to the Yankees Wednesday night in the Bronx. The Mets split the season series, 2-2. Jose Quintana seemed to be in constant danger but he gave the Mets six innings and a chance [...]