Today’s matchup features Zack Wheeler versus Marcus Stroman, two pitchers who are linked in team history. Former Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen acquired Stroman at the trade deadline in 2019, to improve the club’s chances that season and to essentially act as a replacement for Wheeler, who was a free agent in the 2019-20 offseason. [...]
For the third straight game, the Mets rallied in the final inning of regulation. This time they won the game outright, edging the Phillies, 4-3, Saturday afternoon at Citi Field with no extra innings needed. Travis Blankenhorn started off the ninth inning with a hard shot that the Phillies first baseman was unable to handle, [...]
Whenever a team is going good for an extended stretch, invariably someone will say something along the lines of, “and they’re getting big hits from a different guy almost every night.” And it’s always said with some kind of awe, like the only ones allowed to get big hits are your two best players. This [...]
Tylor Megill made a successful MLB debut, Corey Oswalt made a successful MLB return and Edwin Diaz closed things out with a 5-out save, as the Mets downed the Braves, 7-3, Wednesday night to earn a split of the four-game series. The Mets gave Megill a big cushion early, exploding for five runs in the [...]
It appears the 2021 Mets are a cautionary tale. And the lesson this group is trying to teach us is this: Things can always get worse. Marcus Stroman became the latest Met to come down with an injury, leaving after just 21 pitches with a sore hip in a game the Mets would go on [...]
The Mets came within a foot of sweeping the Braves, dropping the nightcap 1-0 after winning the opener, 4-2, Monday at Citi Field. The Mets loaded the bases with one out in the seventh inning and Kevin Pillar hit a laser beam that Austin Riley was able to dive and catch, nearly turning a double [...]
Kyle Schwarber clubbed three home runs to lead the Nationals to a 5-2 win over the Mets Sunday afternoon in Washington. Taijuan Walker didn’t have his best stuff and the first three hitters for the Nats all hit rockets. Schwarber led off with a homer, the next batter hit one two steps deep on the [...]
Jacob deGrom has left early in both of his last two starts, leading the armchair doctors to speculate that it’s all because of the effort/velocity which he throws his pitches. Never mind that deGrom himself has said that swinging the bat is what has caused him the most trouble. Never mind that that neither one [...]
Francisco Lindor homered twice and drove in all five runs, leading the Mets to a 5-1 win in the opener of the doubleheader with the Nationals and ultimately a split of the twinbill Saturday night in Washington. Lindor gave the Mets the early lead when he hit a two-run homer in the top of the [...]
You’ve got to score to win and for the second straight night the Mets were shut out, losing this time, 1-0 to the Nationals Friday night in Washington in the opener of a four-game series. Luis Rojas made his second mid-inning pitching change of the game, bringing on Seth Lugo in the eighth inning. Lugo [...]
Before the season started, this figured to be the Mets’ most challenging time with the schedule. After seven games with the Padres and Cubs, they were going to have a host of games against division rivals. The hope was that by now the rotation would be complete and that the club would be at full [...]
In his last three games, Dominic Smith is 4-9 with a double and two homers. It seems like every time that Smith or Pete Alonso or Francisco Lindor strings together a handful of games with good results that we’re expecting them to put up a month-long stretch like this and it just hasn’t happened yet. [...]