The Mets jumped out to a 3-0 lead but were unable to hold it, as they fell to the Pirates, 8-4, in the opener of their three-game series in Pittsburgh Friday night. The loss snapped a seven-game winning streak for the Mets, their longest of the season. Steven Matz was sharp early but it all [...]
Zack Wheeler tossed seven shutout innings, lifting the Mets to a sweep of the White Sox as they posted a 4-0 victory. It’s the seventh-straight win for the Mets, raises their record since the All-Star break to 13-5 and brings them within two games of .500 for the year. Wheeler was great for five innings [...]
Jeff McNeil and Michael Conforto hit back-to-back homers in the 11th inning to lift the Mets to their fifth-straight win, a 5-2 decision over the White Sox in the opener of their three-game series. The win broke a streak of seven straight extra-inning losses for the Mets. Noah Syndergaard, the subject of numerous trade rumors, [...]
SNY and other media outlets are reporting that the Mets have traded for Blue Jays All-Star pitcher Marcus Stroman. Going to Toronto are two top 10 prospects in LHP Anthony Kay and RHP Simeon Woods Richardson. Stroman, a 5'7 RHP, is just 6-11 this season despite a 2.96 ERA and a 3.52 FIP. He's done [...]
The Mets put up a six-spot in the first inning but had to sweat out the ninth before emerging with an 8-7 win on Sunday and a sweep of the Pirates. The Mets are riding a four-game winning streak and are now 10-5 since the All-Star break, their best 15-game stretch of the 2019 season. [...]
The Mets have played well coming out of the All-Star break, going 9-5, which is a 104-win pace over 162 games. Of course, they haven’t played very much like that the rest of the 2019 season. In fact, it ties for the best 14-game stretch of the year. The only other time they went 9-5 [...]
Jacob deGrom continued his daylight mastery, with seven shutout innings Thursday afternoon, pitching the Mets to a 4-0 victory over the Padres and a win in the rubber game of the series. The Mets are now 7-5 since the All-Star break. The Mets scored four runs in the first inning, aided by a couple of [...]
For the third time in four games, the Mets and Giants played extra innings and for the third time, the Giants came out on top, this time by a 3-2 score Sunday in San Francisco. Mike Yazstrzemski delivered a walk-off homer to left field in the bottom of the 12th to send the Mets to [...]
Coming into 2019, we were expecting great things from Michael Conforto, based on his draft stats and what he had shown in varying lengths in previous seasons. In 2018, Conforto was coming back off a shoulder injury and was unimpressive early in the year. But after the All-Star break he put up an .895 OPS. [...]
Well, the Mets ripped defeat from the jaws of victory and I’m partially to blame, as I started to write this piece during the top of the 16th inning when the Mets took the lead. But both teams went through their entire bullpens and Chris Mazza simply had nothing left when he took the mound [...]
Slumping Dominic Smith came off the bench to deliver a go-ahead 3-run homer in the seventh inning, the start of a 12-run outburst over the final three innings, which led to a 14-4 win over the Twins and a sweep of the two-game series. It was the fourth straight win for the Mets, tying their [...]
In the five games before the All-Star break the Mets used the following starters: Wheeler, Vargas, deGrom, Syndergaard and Wheeler. After a four-day break, the Mets came out and used Vargas, Syndergaard and deGrom for the three-game set in Miami. You can kind of see why they laid the rotation out that way – Vargas [...]