Back on track with a winning week
After J.D. Martinez walked in the second inning in Game 3, in the Game Chatter I joked that it wasn’t too early to pinch run for him. Matinez struck out twice after that, looking just as bad as he has since the start of September. Or even earlier than that. Martinez needs to be on [...]
For the second time in three games, the Dodgers pitched a shutout in the NLCS, this time an 8-0 blanking of the Mets Wednesday night at Citi Field. L.A. jumps out to a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. Walker Buehler, a one-time ace who had been beset by injuries, was terrific in four innings, [...]
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After the Game One thrashing by the Dodgers, the Mets needed to look inward to figure out why it happened. With our own eyes we saw that Kodai Senga had nothing, as evidenced by his lack of control and all the walks that came back to haunt the team. The lack of good pitching by [...]
After getting blown out in Game 1 of the NLCS, the Mets roared back with a not-as-close-as-it-sounds, 7-3 win over the Dodgers in L.A. The Series now moves to New York for the next three games. Francisco Lindor got things off to a great start with a leadoff homer to stake Sean Manaea to an [...]
The Minor League Seasons are in the past the Major League playoffs are in our present and the minor league blogger is left with covering the Arizona Fall League. The Arizona Fall League serves two major functions for baseball prospects. First, it serves as a launching ground for players who may be ready to make [...]
The Mets found out that it’s not so easy having multiple days off before the start of a playoff series, as after three full days off they were blanked by the Dodgers, 9-0, Sunday night in L.A. It’s the first time in these playoffs that the Mets have trailed in a series. Kodai Senga got [...]
With having to face better pitching in the playoffs, the theory is that a team needs to be able to hit home runs in order to advance, as it’s tougher to string a bunch of hits together. This wasn’t the case for the Mets in the series against Milwaukee, as they advanced despite being out-homered, [...]
Mets Manager Carlos Mendoza has released the names of his starting pitchers for the first three games of the NLCS against the Dodgers. Kodai Senga is scheduled to start game one, followed by Sean Manaea in game two with Luis Severino tapped for game three back in Citi Field. This rotation looks solid… but it [...]
By now, the charter has touched down at LAX. At around 10:30 EDT on Friday, October 11, 2024, Fernando Tatis, Jr. of the San Diego Padres hit a first-pitch grounder to third baseman Enrique Hernandez of the Los Angeles Dodgers for the final out of Los Angeles’s 2-0 victory in Game 5 of what is [...]
With time off between the NLDS and the NLCS, it seemed a perfect time to check in with the former Mayor – Chris Flanders - and get his take on Mets playoff baseball. Brian: As one passionate Mets fan to another - your comments in the Game Chatters have me a little concerned for you. [...]