For the second straight night, the Mets did just enough to lose, getting shut out by the Padres, 2-0, Friday night in San Diego. The Mets were held without a hit until Francisco Lindor singled leading off the seventh. Lindor wound up on third base thanks to a fielding error and with nobody out, it [...]
The Mets need David Peterson to be solid, more or less league average, and, well, he isn’t. Coming into the year, the hope was that eight pitchers would make the overwhelming number of starts for the team. The problem is that three of those are on the IL and Peterson has to take a turn [...]
The Mets fell behind 4-0, cut the deficit to one run, put the first two runners on in the ninth inning but couldn’t tie the game, falling to the Padres, 4-3, in the first game of a four-game set Thursday night in San Diego. This promised to be a pitcher’s duel, with two of the [...]
Everyone knows that the Mets have struggled offensively at the start of the 2021 season. The NL has an average runs per game of 4.33 and the Mets have a mark of just 3.73, which ranks 14th in the 15-team league. There are multiple reasons why, ranging from the slow starts for most of the [...]
For the second straight game, the Mets blew a 4-0 lead. But unlike Tuesday night, Wednesday's game had a happy ending, as Pete Alonso drove home the winning run in the ninth inning, as the Mets beat the Diamondbacks, 7-6, to take the rubber game of the three-game series in Arizona. The Mets staked David [...]
Old baseball wisdom is that you’re going to win one-third of your games no matter what and lose one-third no matter what. It’s what you do what that other third that matters. This was one of those games and the Mets let a 4-0 lead slip away, took a 5-4 lead in the top of [...]
When the season started, the hope was that by June 1, Noah Syndergaard was either just activated or would be so shortly, giving the Mets a potentially dynamite starting rotation. The reality has turned into something different, as it doesn’t look like either Syndergaard or Carlos Carrasco will be throwing their first MLB pitch of [...]
Pete Alonso homered and drove in four runs in his first game back from the IL, providing all of the offense Jacob deGrom would need, as the Mets put up a 6-2 win over the Diamondbacks Monday night in Arizona. It was the Mets’ eighth straight victory over the D’Backs. Alonso broke a scoreless tie [...]
As the double-digit number of guys on the IL start to return, the Mets and their fans are going to have to face some hard realities. We all want to see the stars and name players return. But by necessity, that means that some of the "bench mob" will have to be sent packing. Yennsy [...]
In Saturday night’s nationally televised game, one of the announcers made a comment that – speculating – was meant as a put down but is actually something worth discussing in more detail. He said that today’s game has essentially turned every hitter into Dave Kingman. Lifetime, Kingman had a .236 AVG and a .302 OBP [...]
This morning it was pointed out that the Mets hadn’t scored more than eight runs in a game all season. So, the Mets exploded for 13 runs – one more than they scored in the previous six contests – and Taijuan Walker returned from the IL to lead the Mets to a 13-2 win over [...]
By now you’ve heard how good the Mets are when they score at least four runs. There seems to be some confusion by some of you out there what their record is, though. After a 4-2 win in the second game of Thursday’s doubleheader, the Mets are now 18-4 in games where they surpass three [...]