Pop quiz, hotshot. What the world needs now is A. Not another love song B. Not another Rafael Montero post C. Not another Montero appearance in Queens However true B and C might be, we’re getting those. Injuries to Seth Lugo, Steven Matz and Noah Syndergaard leave the Mets scrounging for a starting pitcher. And [...]
Matt Harvey's career has had more ups and downs than a drunk kangaroo. As a summer time call up in 2012, Harvey started 10 games for the struggling team and gave fans a taste of their future ace with impressive mound presence, pitch repertoire, and some gaudy stats (70 Ks and 42 hits in 59 innings). [...]
Wow, what a week. Some smart guy wrote this, early last Thursday. Last Thursday. Before we found out Noah Syndergaard would miss that afternoon’s start. Before we watched Yoenis Cespedes hit a run-scoring double, but barely make it to second base with a pulled hamstring. Before a daunting weekend series in Washington, where the Mets [...]
Double your pleasure, double your fun. The Mets came into tonight's game twelfth in the National League in doubles, having only hit 34. They hit more than a quarter of that against the Braves. Here was the story to this game: the Mets hit nine doubles and went 12-for-20 with runners in scoring position. That [...]
Ace Met pitcher Noah Syndergaard is on the DL after an abbreviated start against Washington, one that ended in an all too painful debacle for the Mets. The right-handed power pitcher has been diagnosed with a partial tear to his right lat muscle, with no time table as of yet for his return. Mets management [...]
It was clear from the onset of the ball game that Matt Harvey did not have his best stuff tonight. He gave up his seventh home run on the season already, which is an issue that becomes more and more pressing with each start. Harvey surrendered six runs on eight hits over 5.1 innings pitched. [...]
The Mets suffered through a most disastrous weekend. Even though they managed to take two of three games on the road versus the Nationals, they suffered great losses both on and off the field. To add insult to injury, not only did they lose Noah Syndergaard for an indeterminate amount of time, they were pounded [...]
The Mets won their first ever game at Sun Trust Park and it was a team effort. The team finally made Julio Teheran look human, jumping out to an early lead on a Michael Conforto solo home run, before lighting him up in the 4th inning. Ten Mets batters got up in the fourth contributing [...]