Noah Syndergaard returned to action with a flourish, pitching and hitting the Mets to a 4-2 victory over the Nationals Friday night. Syndergaard scattered seven hits over five innings and allowed just one run. He also delivered an RBI single that gave the Mets a 4-0 lead. The Mets gave Syndergaard an early lead, as [...]
The Mets hit three home runs, two off Max Scherzer, but it wasn’t enough as they fell to the Nationals, 5-4, in the first of a four-game series. One of the big hopes for this season was with Terry Collins no longer in the dugout that we would get away from the matchup masturbation. But [...]
Well, the wins may be few, the team might stink, the management inept and the ownership dysfunctional, but three things the Mats have going for them right now: Jacob deGrom, Brandon Nimmo and walk-off wins. All three were on full display tonight. deGrom was his usual stellar self, and as usual, came away with nothing [...]
Amed Rosario hit two triples! Wilmer Flores and Jose Reyes each got on base twice! PJ Conlon and Tyler Bashlor combined to allow just one run over 4.1 relief innings! The Mets made no errors and even turned a few highlight plays in the field! Dom Smith got a hit! But, um, yeah, we lost [...]
Aaron Nola hurt the New York Mets while he was on the mound and in the batter’s box, as the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Mets 3-1 in the second game of the doubleheader. For Mets starter Corey Oswalt, things literally could not have gone more perfect through his first four innings. He was dealing, at [...]
The New York Mets opened their doubleheader against the Philadelphia Phillies with a walk-off victory as they defeated their division rivals 4-3 in 10 innings. Of course, who else would the walk-off RBI be attributed to besides Wilmer Flores? After appearing to be hit by the pitch before the home run, the count was 3-1 [...]
Nate Eovaldi? Great. The Mets never hit Nate Eovaldi. -- Me, 1 hour before first pitch I didn't know how right I was. Chris Flexen, Chris Beck, Tyler Bashlor and Paul Sewald conspired to allow the Tampa Bay Rays nine runs. Eovaldi conspired with himself to keep the Mets off the bases. As conspiracies go, [...]
"It's the same old song. But with a different meaning since you've been gone." That Four Tops song used to play on the car radio with my parents singing along in the front seat of our brown Buick. My brother and I sat in the back, dejected, on our way back from another Mets loss [...]
Jose Bautista crushed a home run on the first pitch he saw in the ninth inning to lift the Mets to a 5-1 win over the Rays Friday night. It was the first ever walk-off homer for Bautista. The Rays loaded the bases with one out in the ninth but could not push the go-ahead [...]
An Independence Day spent across the Canadian border yielded a victory for the New York Mets, as they defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3. Once again, the Mets offense put up a six spot on the starter for the Blue Jays. This time, it was the struggling ace Marcus Stroman that yielded the runs to [...]
Early fireworks off the bats of the Mets were rained out by the performance of the bullpen, as the Mets fell in disparaging fashion 8-6 to the Toronto Blue Jays. For the first six innings of this game, the Mets had the game in their control. This of course was due to a great start [...]
The Mets salvaged the final game of the series with the Marlins, earning a 5-2 victory Sunday. The win vaulted the Mets out of last place, as they leapfrogged the Marlins in the standings. If you imagined in your mind what a game between two teams battling for last place would look like, well – [...]