Steven Matz and three relievers combined on a five-hit shutout to give the Mets the rubber game of their series with the Marlins, 3-0. The nine-game road trip ended with the Mets holding a 5-4 mark. Matz won for the first time since May 27 with six shutout innings. He looked sharp, fanned six and [...]
With their win Friday night, the Mets move to 51-44, which is five games behind the Nationals in the NL East and a half game behind in the race for the last Wild Card slot. Yet somehow we’ve heard fans mention that this isn’t shaping up to be the Mets’ year and that they should [...]
The Mets won for the 11th time in 12 games after a scheduled day off with a 5-3 win over the Marlins Friday night in Miami. The Mets moved within a half game of the Marlins and five games of the Nationals, who lost to the Padres. Jose Reyes returned to Miami and had a [...]
In baseball’s traditional setup, non-catcher division, you had your speed guys up the middle and your power guys at the corners. The Mets have essentially punted speed but they certainly expected to get power from Lucas Duda and David Wright at the infield corners. And more or less they did. But now both of those [...]
It was right about…here. Last year, the Mets’ season teetered on the edge of .500 in mid-July. After losing four-of six against the St. Louis Cardinals and division rival Washington Nationals – the very team they were chasing – their record stood at 49-46, three games behind. They then dropped the first two of a [...]
There isn't much to be said about this no-contest contest. The Mets dropped their final 2016 regular season game with the Cubs, 6-2 on a desultory afternoon. Kyle Hendricks started for Chicago and as Bob Murphy used to say, he was wearing the hitters on his watch chain. He scattered seven hits and no runs [...]
Hundreds, if not thousands, of books and articles have been written in the realm of speculative history, also known as “what if” history. The idea is to figure out which way things would have turned out if events did not go as they actually did. Some examples: What if - the British sniper who had [...]