I know…I know… It’s been a week, now, and the last thing we need is yet another post-mortem on the Mets’ 2016 season. The wound from their loss in the Wild Card “Series” is still fresh and there are other goings-on in the wide, wide world of baseball. The Toronto Blue Jays stole the Mets’ [...]
This was a "Day After" game, the next game after the Mets' post-season clincher. It showed. The Mets closed out their regular season with a sloppy, listless performance in Philadelphia and it doesn't matter a damn. Gabriel Ynoa started for the Mets and turned in a perfectly serviceable four-and-two-thirds innings of work, walking one, striking [...]
Noah Syndergaard tried his damnedest to give the Cincinnati Reds this game. Apparently, they didn't want it. The Mets ran their latest winning streak to five games and their current run to 14 of 18 with a sweep in the Queen City. Syndergaard pitched five hair-raising innings, surrendering six hits, four walks and no runs, [...]
On the heels of the Mets’ exciting win last night – their third straight over the hated Marlins of Miami; another game’s worth of daylight put between the two teams, who had both been competing for the second Wild Card berth in the National League – word came down that slugging second baseman Neil Walker [...]
In a game of total attrition, Yoenis Cespedes would have no more of it. With two outs in the bottom of the tenth, he sent a ball deep into the left field seats and the Mets home with a crucial win. Rafael Montero made his first start in a year-and-a-half and most unsteadily made the [...]
The Mets were relentless and Bartolo Colon was nearly flawless. That's as good a combination as you could ask for. It started right away as Colon retired the Phillies in order in the first inning on five pitches. Meanwhile, Phillies' starter Adam Morgan's fourth and fifth pitches were deposited over the left field wall. Jose [...]
In a game the Mets absolutely had to have to keep their fading playoff hopes alive, they got big performances from a couple of unlikely heroes. Seth Lugo and Alejandro De Aza kept the Mets above water tonight. Lugo made his second strong start in a row before leaving after the fifth inning with a [...]
A huge, strange win for the Mets in a game in which a new superhero emerged. Robert Gsellman -- pronounced "Gazelle Man" -- leapt out of the pages and into Mets lore. The Mets broke out early when Jose Reyes kept turning back the clock. He led off the game with a five-pitch walk and [...]
The 2016 season is hurtling toward its inevitable conclusion. For three and a half months, the Mets have looked old, lethargic and inept. A 45-52 record – as of this writing – since May 1 will do that to you, never minding the fact that their projected starting lineup has not been on the field [...]
Traditionally, the Mets used to always play well in Arizona. Must be something about the dry heat or the ballpark with the swimming pool. A trip to Chase Field used to be a tonic if things weren't going well. The Mets picked a hell of a time to buck that tradition. The less said about [...]
Having lost their last four straight to the miserable Arizona Diamondbacks, with morale at a season's low and missing their hottest hitter, the Met needed a big performance from Noah Syndergaard in the worst way. They got it on both sides of the plate. Neil Walker missed this game with lower-back tightness and the already [...]
...I really thought I just hit rock bottom. But today, it's like there's rock bottom, then 50 feet of crap, then me. -- Friends On this doggiest of dog days, the Mets wilted in the humidity and completed being swept by the Arizona Diamondbacks -- yes, you read that right: swept by the Diamondbacks -- [...]