The Mets broke open a tie game with a 10-run sixth inning en route to a 13-4 win over the Pirates in the first of a four-game set at Citi Field Friday night. Brandon Nimmo got the big rally going in the sixth inning with a single. Francisco Lindor drew a walk and Dominic Smith [...]
During and after the 2020 season, Michael Conforto was everybody’s darling. Thanks to the long Covid interruption, Conforto’s oblique injury did not cause him to miss any time. And the hamstring injury that came late in the season only kept him from a couple of games. And while he was in the lineup, he was [...]
Much like a batter never hits consistently throughout the season, a team is never the same through all 162 contests. When you play a team makes all of the difference in the world. The Mets are getting ready to face the Pirates in seven straight games surrounding the All-Star break. For most of the year, [...]
Jose Peraza homered in the bottom of the seventh to send the first game into extra innings and Jeff McNeil drilled a two-run single in the eighth to give the Mets a 4-3 win in the opener of the doubleheader and an eventual split of the twinbill against the Brewers Wednesday at Citi Field. Jacob [...]
Conventional wisdom says that a good team will play .500 on the road and win two-thirds of their home games. If a team did that, it would win around 40 road games and around 54 home contests for a strong 94-win season. Currently, the Mets have a .422 road winning percentage and a .694 mark [...]
Pete Alonso ripped a two-run double to break a 1-1 tie, leading the Mets to a 4-2 win over Brandon Woodruff and the Brewers Monday night at Citi Field. Woodruff and Tylor Megill were locked in an unexpected pitcher’s duel. Megill went five innings and only allowed a solo homer but an elevated pitch count [...]
The Mets exploded for six runs in the seventh inning of the first game of the Fourth of July doubleheader to earn the come-from-behind victory and ultimately a split in their doubleheader with the Yankees Sunday in the Bronx. It looked like a marquee pitching matchup in the opener, with Marcus Stroman squaring off against [...]
In Saturday’s game against the Yankees, Pete Alonso was aggressive right from the first pitch. He came to the plate five times and swung at the first pitch each time up. Since he went 0-4 with a strikeout, it was fair to wonder if he was being too aggressive. But the numbers certainly make it [...]
Brandon Nimmo had three hits in his return to the active roster and Taijuan Walker came up with another strong outing – even if he was pulled too early – leading the Mets to an 8-3 win over the Yankees in the Bronx Saturday afternoon. Nimmo led off the game with a single and he [...]
The Braves scored 20 unanswered runs to rout the Mets, 20-2, Wednesday night in Atlanta. In a game like this, typically you say – well, at least no one got hurt. But starter David Peterson left the game early and since it’s 2021, we should probably expect an IL stint. Either way, the blowout allowed [...]
If you’ve been following the Mets for a while, you’ve seen your share of things that seem hard to wrap your head around. Among others there was losing key games in the final series of the season in back-to-back years to a Marlins team they otherwise handled pretty well in 2007 and 2008. There was [...]