The wheels are coming off this season. The Mets blew yet another game in ugly fashion as the Braves walked off with a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth. You can't blame the feeble offense for this one as they gave the Mets leads of 4-0 and 6-2 that the bullpen [...]
The Mets never seem to run out of ways to lose ugly. They let this winnable game get away thanks to AJ Ramos walking in the winning run in the 10th inning. Noah Syndergaard looked awful early (more on that later) but settled down to go six innings, allowing three run and striking out eight. [...]
Jerry Blevins is many things - an effective reliever, an affable player well-liked by teammates and fans, a prolific tweeter, a funny sock wearer, and a new dad. He is not, however, a LOOGY. Over the past two seasons as a Met, the lefty appeared in 148 games, totaling 91 innings. That works out to [...]
Three of Jeuys Familia's blown saves cost Jacob deGrom wins. Our ace should be 7-0 and in the early Cy Young discussion. Instead, he has just four wins despite leading the NL in ERA. Familia at least owes deGrom dinner.
Jacob deGrom slayed the snakes with 13 strikeouts and Michael Conforto led the way with four hits for a 3-1 victory. The game was a bit closer than it should have been as the Mets failed to add insurance in the eighth, stranding the bases loaded. Thankfully, Jeurys Familia was able to lock it down, retiring [...]
It feels like the third or fourth year in a row I've written this piece. The Mets have hit a rough patch and fans are despondent. It's a familiar refrain - the crushing disappointment of injuries, underperformance, losses, and clubhouse drama while the crosstown Yankees are tearing it up and some of our division rivals [...]
It's been another rollercoaster ride for Mets fans this week - lopsided wins and losses, rain outs, injuries and Keith's tweets. This weekend feels like a good time to get things turned around. Hopefully, the weather cooperates. Three games at home against the Diamondbacks with deGrom pitching the opener and Syndergaard closing it out. Let's [...]
The Mets rose from the dead tonight to defeat the Phillies in dramatic fashion 3-1 on the road. Down 1-0 in the ninth inning, the Mets seemed destined to get blanked again and waste a good pitching performance by Steven Matz and the bullpen, until Michael Conforto stepped to the plate. With the count 1-2 [...]
Last summer, the Mets faced up to the grim reality that their injury riddled team would not be able to compete for a playoff spot in 2017 and unloaded some veterans on expiring contracts. By season’s end the team resembled the 2015 White Sox. That is, they still had two frontline starting pitchers, a quality [...]
Fourth place?! How the heck did we get here and how do we climb out?
The Cincinnati band box was just what the doctor ordered and the Mets ailing bats came to life in a 7-6 win over the Reds. Everything not hit on the ground seemed to sail over the wall at Great American Ball Park with the Mets out-slugging the Reds four home runs to three. The Mets [...]
The Mets wasted a good pitching performance by Steven Matz to get shut out for the third time in four games. Matz delivered six innings of one run ball and Paul Sewald and Robert Gsellman kept the Mets in the game, allowing one additional run over three relief innings, but the Mets lineup again looked [...]