"Your conscience awakes and you see your mistakes
And you wish someone would buy your confessions
The days miss their mark, and the night gets so dark
And some kind of message comes through to you
Some kind of message shoots through..."
The bullpen blew another game, turning a 3-3 tie into a 10-3 loss Wednesday night against the Dodgers. The loss meant another sweep. But that ignominy paled to what else happened in the game. Pete Alonso was hit on the hand with a pitch in the first inning. When the trainer came out to check [...]
The Mets’ Citi Field offense was on display in all of its hideousness Tuesday in a doubleheader loss to the Dodgers. They couldn’t hold a 2-0 lead and lost in extra innings in the opener, 5-2, and they got shut out in the nightcap, 3-0. Over 19 innings of baseball in the two games, the [...]
Omar Narvaez picked a great time to post his first hit at Citi Field this year, as his RBI single in the bottom of the ninth capped a three-run inning and led to a 4-3 walk-off win against the Giants Sunday afternoon. The victory snapped a five-game losing streak for the Mets. Brandon Nimmo led [...]
Baseball-Reference shows that so far here in 2024, the 30 MLB teams have combined to hit 1,620 HR in 1,564 games, which is a little over one per game. It rounds to 1.04 HR/G. The Yankees have hit the most homers in the league with 80 in 54 games, an average of 1.48 per game. [...]
After three straight games hitting three home runs, the Mets only hit two on Saturday. Yet it seemed like it was going to be enough, as they took a 2-1 lead into the ninth inning. But Edwin Diaz, pushed back into the closer’s role after pitching in the seventh inning on Friday, did what he [...]
One of the things about baseball is you just never know what you might see. In my summer collegiate league game tonight, our starting pitcher hit six batters and gave up a homer in the first two innings. Pretty sure I’ve never seen that before. And I get home to find that the Mets hit [...]
The most interesting players to me are the ones where reasonable people can look at and see things in a completely different way. At various part of their careers, ChrisF and I have been on opposite sides of things when discussing Lucas Duda, Juan Lagares, Brandon Nimmo, Alex Torres and Zack Wheeler, among others. And [...]
Up until this point, Citi Field has played as an extreme pitcher’s park, which is making the pitchers look much better than they are in reality. Mets’ pitchers have a 2.89 ERA in their home park, compared to a 5.31 ERA on the road. Knowing this, let’s take a look at how the pitchers have [...]
It’s tough to hit three homers in a game and lose. It’s especially tough to do it in back-to-back games. But that’s the type of luck the Mets have these days, as they lost to the Guardians, 6-3. The loss means the Mets got swept and leaves the team licking its wounds after a 2-6 [...]
Sometimes the gods throw you a bone. On the night that my daughter had her Senior Awards Ceremony, the Mets for some inexplicable reason gave Adrian Houser another start. Houser proceeded to give up 6 ER in 5 IP and I didn’t have to watch. Yay me! Sorry for those of you who saw the [...]
Earlier in the year, the Mets had a thing going where they consistently scored runs in the last few innings. Alas, it’s just a distant memory now. Tonight, the last 10 Mets went down in order and the result was a 3-1 loss to the Guardians in Cleveland. This game marked the return of Tylor [...]