After starting June off with back-to-back clunkers – a combined 11 ER in 9.1 IP – Sean Manaea has been outstanding. He’s pitched in 13 games since those rough outings and has a 2.83 ERA while limiting opposing batters to a .584 OPS. And the Mets are 10-3 in those Manaea starts. Among the 74 [...]
Francisco Lindor belted two homers and David Peterson pitched into the eighth inning, leading the Mets to a 7-1 win over the Padres in San Diego Saturday night. The Mets have won two of the first three games and will look to claim the series win Sunday afternoon. Lindor’s first home run was a grand [...]
Five weeks ago, the question was asked here: Will the real David Peterson please stand up? And the six games since that post, Peterson has gone 3-1 with a 2.88 ERA in 34.1 IP. The last four starts have all been good. And while he’s still out-pitching his peripherals, there’s enough there to make one [...]
Mets fans can be forgiven if they think Joe Musgrove is the best pitcher around. Musgrove now has 20 consecutive scoreless innings against the Mets, as he led the Padres to a 7-0 win over the Mets Friday night in San Diego. In a game like this, sometimes you say – at least no one [...]
In the NCAA basketball tournament, the selection committee ranks all of the teams from 1-68. Let’s take that principle and do it for the current players on the 2024 Mets, 1-26. Typically, the backup catcher and middle reliever would occupy the bottom of the roster but that’s not necessarily the case with this team. To [...]
The Mets banged out 17 hits and took the opening game on their key series with the Padres, 8-3, Thursday night in San Diego. They have won five of their last seven games and are now 67-61 for the season. The offense started early, with Francisco Lindor and Mark Vientos hitting back-to-back doubles in the [...]
This edition of the Power Rankings is created by Dalton Allison, Gus Livaditis and me. Last time out, there were only two contributors to this piece, which partially explains why there’s a lot of movement in the order from last time out. The number in parentheses is the team’s ranking in our last segment. On [...]
Jesse Winker picked a great time to hit his first homer as a Met. Inserted into the game as a pinch-hitter for the punchless Harrison Bader in the bottom of the ninth inning, Winker homered to left-center to give the Mets a walk-off win, 4-3, over the Orioles Wednesday afternoon. The victory gave the Mets [...]
The Mets tried to make it a game with a four-run eighth inning but a comedy of errors on one play led to the Orioles tacking on two more runs and they finished with a 9-5 win over the Mets Tuesday night at Citi Field. Francisco Lindor hit his second double of the game to [...]
The Mets blew a 3-0 lead but Francisco Alvarez made sure that they didn’t lose the game, as he delivered his first walk-off hit, a 421-foot homer, giving the club a 4-3 win in the opening game of the three-game series against the Orioles. With the Braves having the night off, the Mets pulled within [...]
In Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS, Carlos Beltran struck out looking on a nasty curve that ended up in the middle of the strike zone. Fans have crucified Beltran ever since. And, seemingly, the Mets as an organization have decided that no key AB will ever again end with a player looking at a [...]
The Mets had two on and nobody out in the bottom of the ninth inning but couldn’t push across the tying run, as they lost to the Marlins, 3-2, Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. The loss kept them from a series sweep and left their record against their NL East foe for the year at [...]