When your college football team wins by one point despite getting stoned on the one-yard line seven times in the fourth quarter because the other team misses an extra point and a field goal attempt in the final minutes – you know the sports gods will make you pay later. And that they did, as [...]
The Mets used a four-run sixth inning to pull away from the Nationals en route to earning a 7-3 win Friday night in the first game of the series at Citi Field. After facing a slew of tough pitchers recently, it seemed like the Mets would feast off of Josiah Gray. And they did, eventually. [...]
With his recent hot streak, Mark Canha has given the Mets three outfielders with 100 games played and an OPS+ of 120 or greater. That seems like really good production. But how does it rate in team history? The Mets have always been known more for their pitching than their hitting. Does the 2022 outfield [...]
A couple of times today, the Dodgers looked like the Phillies defensively. That, combined with some good Mets baserunning, resulted in a 5-3 win Thursday afternoon at Citi Field. The win gave the Mets the season series versus the Dodgers, 4-3. It’s the first time the Mets have taken the regular season series since 2015, [...]
We’ve all been focusing on how the offense has been struggling here recently that we’ve lost sight of how well the pitching has been performing. In the month of August alone, the Mets held their opponents to three runs or fewer 16 times, which allowed the club to go 19-11 in the month, despite the [...]
Jacob deGrom was terrific and he combined with Adam Ottavino and Edwin Diaz to hold the visitors to just one run, as the Mets downed the Dodgers, 2-1, Wednesday night at Citi Field. The two best teams in the NL have played six games and they are tied 3-3. As wonderful as deGrom was, he [...]
After a streak where he retired 20 of 21 LHB, Joely Rodriguez has returned to earth. With a bunch of lefties due up in the seventh inning, Buck Showalter brought him into the game. Rodriguez gave up a run and the Mets ended up on the wrong end of a 4-3 game against the Dodgers [...]
Since beating the Dodgers in the NLDS in 2015, the Mets have had virtually no success at all against the club that Steve Cohen said he wanted to emulate. From 2016-2021, the Mets were 8-26 against the Dodgers and they did not win the season series once. The two teams split the four-game series in [...]
It seems that MLB will have the same September call-up rules as they did a year ago, which increased rosters to 28 with a maximum of 14 pitchers. On top of that, teams will have a five-man taxi squad they can take with them in road games. It’s not quite like in years past, where [...]
Max Scherzer and German Marquez engaged in an old-fashioned pitcher’s duel Sunday afternoon. The Rockies were able to push across a run while the Mets weren’t and the result was a rare shutout loss for the Mets, by a 1-0 score. The Mets took the series, 3-1 and for the year were 5-2 against the [...]
In January of 2021, it was said here that, “One of the lousy things about the shortened 2020 MLB season was that it robbed us of a full season of prime Jacob deGrom.” Little did we know then that we wouldn’t get full years from deGrom in 2021 or 2022, either. In a fair universe, [...]
David Peterson combined with three relievers on a shutout, the 17th time this season the Mets blanked their opponent, as the Mets capped a memorable day with a 3-0 win over the Rockies. It was an eventful day, being the Mets’ first Old Timers Day in decades, one complete with the surprise announcement that the [...]