Most every Mets fan knows that the team won the World Series in 1969 and finished the year with 100 wins during the regular season, the first time in franchise history that the club finished above .500 for the year. A lot of fans know they finished with a great kick, going 40-14 in their [...]
If you ask 10 people about the pandemic in general, and MLB trying to have a 60-game season in the middle of a pandemic in particular, you might get 10 different answers. One thing that seems clear, at least to me, is that people who haven’t been affected directly are the ones most vociferous about [...]
Topps' 1967 baseball card set featured a subset with multiple players on a card with an alliteration theme based on the team's name. There was "Cards Clubbers," "Pitt Power" and "Twin Terrors." For the Mets, it was "Mets Maulers" and it featured Ed Kranepool and Ron Swoboda. While they ended up as two of the [...]
Conventional wisdom is that you’re going to win one-third of your games no matter what and lose one-third no matter what. It’s what you do with that other third that determines how good of a year that you have. This was one of those games that could have gone either way. But Michael Conforto came [...]
The Mets broke open a close game with a four-spot in the eighth inning en route to an 8-3 win over the Marlins Tuesday night in Miami. It’s encouraging to see the offense do so well for the Mets. They produced 10 hits and six walks on the night, including four extra-base hits and three [...]
Robinson Cano and Pete Alonso each clubbed two homers to lead the Mets to an 11-4 win over the Marlins Monday night. The homers were part of a nine-XBH night for the Mets. In all, the Mets banged out 14 hits, including four with runners in scoring position. They also drew eight walks and had [...]
Nothing makes for a good manager quite like good players. The important thing for fans – and yes, the managers themselves – is to keep this thought in the front of their mind at all times. It brings to mind this famous quote by Bill James on Sparky Anderson: "He really believes he made a [...]
Both the Mets and the Phillies’ bullpens leave something to be desired. The setup guys for both teams did their jobs and it was the closers for both squads that let their teams down. The Mets tied the game in the top of the ninth off Hector Neris but the Phillies won the game in [...]
Hear ye! Hear ye! By royal proclamation, August 13, 2020 shall from now on be known as Tomas Nido Day, as the Mets’ backup catcher cracked two homers, including a grand slam, to lead the Mets to an 8-2 win over the Nationals Thursday afternoon. The win gave the Mets a split of their four-game [...]
In the 1960s and 1970s, the National League dominated the American League in the All-Star game. And the reason is pretty simple. The NL was quicker to embrace black players than the AL was. The 1965 starting lineup for the NL had black stars Ernie Banks, Dick Allen, Willie Stargell, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron. [...]
Robert Gsellman got the starting nod and responded by putting the Mets in an immediate 3-0 hole. But that just set the stage for the Mets’ first come-from-behind win, as the bats awakened from hibernation to deliver 11 runs and 13 hits en route to an 11-6 win over the Nationals Wednesday night. If nothing [...]
If you thought things couldn’t possibly get worse for the Mets after Marcus Stroman opted out earlier in the day, well, you’re wrong. The Mets got smoked by the Nationals, 16-4. Usually in a blowout you say something like, “the best thing is no one got hurt.” But in this blowout, where no one seemingly [...]