Whenever a player on the Mets is struggling to hit, my reaction is to compare him to former Mets catcher Kevin Plawecki and call the offensively-challenged player sub-Plaweckian. Much like with Mario Mendoza and the Mendoza Line, there are a bunch of players who could have filled the role that Plawecki does here. It could [...]
The Mets' big hitters – of course we’re talking about Tomas Nido, Kevin Pillar and Jonathan Villar – led the team to a 7-2 win in the nightcap of the doubleheader, giving the team a split of a twinbill with the Cardinals Wednesday in St. Louis. Apparently dying to prove how innovative he can be, [...]
After being MIA for most of the season, the Mets’ offense staked Joey Lucchesi to a 5-2 lead. But Lucchesi gave it right back and the Mets ended up on the short end of a 6-5 score to the Cardinals Monday night in St. Louis. The Mets scored two runs in the second inning, thanks [...]
In a game where both teams had Win Expectancy rates of 89% or greater in the late innings, the hero of the game was … Jeurys Familia! After Edwin Diaz tried his best to lose the game in the 9th inning, Familia came on with the tying run on second base and got the final [...]
The Mets play on Sunday Night Baseball later tonight and David Peterson will pitch for them. This will be Peterson’s fifth start of the year and the third time he matches up against the Phillies. His first start of the season was in Philadelphia – like tonight’s matchup – and was easily his worst start [...]
Michael Conforto had three RBIs, including a home run to break a 4-4 tie, leading the Mets to a 5-4 win over the Phillies Saturday night in Philadelphia. The win snapped a three-game losing streak for the Mets. The Mets jumped on top early, with a HBP and then four consecutive hits, including back-to-back doubles [...]
The first five months of 2016 the Mets couldn’t hit with RISP and it was painful. In 2013, Terry Collins wrote the names John Buck, Ike Davis and Ruben Tejada into the lineup day after day after day when all three were hitting worse than pitchers. It was so bad – they were dubbed here [...]
As we head to the last day of April, the Reds lead the National League with a 5.33 runs per game average. Meanwhile, the NL has a 4.31 rpg average. And the Mets? As you might have guessed, they are last in the 15-team league with a 3.00 mark. It makes a certain preseason prediction [...]
The Red Sox came in to this brief two-game series with one of the best offenses in the game. So, the Mets hold them to a total of three runs and somehow end up getting swept. Wednesday night the Mets lost, 1-0, and stop me if you’ve heard this before but they wasted another big [...]
Red Sox pitchers fanned 13 without allowing a walk, leading Boston to a 2-1 win over the Mets Tuesday night at Citi Field. David Peterson gave a strong effort, a nice bounceback from his last outing, but it wasn’t enough, as he allowed 2 ER in 6 IP. The Mets got three scoreless innings from [...]
The Mets picked up their second shutout in three games, as they blanked the Nationals, 4-0, Sunday afternoon at Citi Field to take the rubber game of the series. J.D. Davis gave the Mets the early lead with a two-run homer in the first inning. Davis singled and scored a run in the fourth. The [...]
Jacob deGrom’s terrific start to 2021 has sparked a lot of talk about comparisons to Tom Seaver, long considered to be the best player in Mets history. The greybeards don’t want to hear it but this argument is over. Despite the advantages that Seaver enjoyed throughout his career, deGrom has surpassed him on a quality [...]