Author: Patrick Albanesius

The Mets needed a great performance today for any hope of tying the series up. What they received was a deGrominate one. The reigning Rookie of the Year showed just exactly why he won the award, striking out 11 over eight innings, and allowing just one hit all day. Those 11 Ks were the most [...]

To quote the Bubble Boy from Seinfeld: "How ya doing over there? Not too good!" This game was really about one thing, Jon Niese and his recent inability to limit damage. In his last 11.1 innings he's allowed 14 runs, all but two of them were earned. I guess the bright side is that he's only [...]

In his last 10 games, Curtis Granderson is hitting .303/.395/.576 with three home runs and five runs scored. While his average hasn’t been stellar for most of the season, he’s been getting on base at a very good rate all year. So it’s not like this recent surge is masking an otherwise putrid campaign from [...]

Oh what a difference a day makes! It was still a bit more of the Mets signature style though: all or nothing. And we certainly got all of it today. A huge 10-run fourth inning sealed the game early on, highlighted by a Wilmer Flores grand slam, the first for the team this year. And [...]

We apparently all deserve this. We were lulled into a sense of confidence and promise that this year would be different. But here we are, with a "starting shortstop" who is unable to throw the baseball 120 feet to a target roughly the size of a barn door. A bench player, who despite having a [...]

Jeurys Familia was thrust into the closer's role this season after showing some improvements the year before. Bobby Parnell, last year's presumed closer went down in his first game, received Tommy John surgery for his trouble and is still on his way back to pitching in the majors. The man who took over the ninth [...]

Every position player in the lineup had a hit today, while Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Wilmer Flores and Lucas Duda all had multiple. Five of the Mets 14 total hits were for extra-bases, and the Mets got just enough pitching from their relievers to keep the pesky Phillies' offense from mounting a comeback. Alex Torres [...]

Offense is still hard to come by for these Mets, but it proved just enough to top the lowly Phillies in the second game of the series. Juan Lagares broke out of his 0-15 slump in a big way with his go-ahead two-run home run in the seventh inning. The only other Mets run came [...]

In games the Mets have won so far in 2015, they have walked 60 times and struck out an even 100. In those games the team line has been .260/.340/.395 with 13 home runs. In games lost by the Mets, the team has walked just 18 times, and struck out 80. That team batting line [...]