If you like uninspired baseball, you’ve loved the past two games. The Mets were shut out for eight innings before losing by a 9-2 margin to the Royals. Kansas City, a team 40-games under .500, sweeps the three-game series. The Mets stacked their lineup with lefty hitters (note: Daniel Vogelbach did not play), with seven [...]
Steve Cohen came out to Kansas City to speak to his team. It didn’t help. The Mets got shut out by the lowly Royals, 4-0, Wednesday night. They’ll have to win Thursday afternoon to avoid the sweep. We probably should have known it wasn’t going to be the Mets’ night when they got the first [...]
The Mets lost on a walk-off balk. Let that roll around in your head for a minute. Is there a more soul-crushing way to lose a game? Which makes it the perfect way to end the day when they traded Justin Verlander. The Mets had leads of 1-0, 4-3 and 6-4 but lost to the [...]
In perhaps his last game as a Met, Justin Verlander recorded his 250th lifetime win, pitching the Mets to a 5-2 win over the Nationals Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. The Mets took three of four in this series of the two bottom teams in the NL East. It wasn’t an easy day for Verlander, [...]
Shortly before scheduled game time, news came out that the Mets and Rangers were finalizing a trade for Max Scherzer. The game with the last-place Nationals seemed to be a distant second in importance. And an 80-minute rain delay didn’t help any. And to top it all off, Carlos Carrasco once again didn’t make it [...]
Pete Alonso drove in all of the Mets’ runs with two homers to back seven strong innings from Max Scherzer to lead the way in a 5-1 win over the Nationals Friday night at Citi Field. The win upped the Mets’ record in July to 13-8. It was also just their 11th win in 35 [...]
The Mets rallied for two runs in the eighth inning, one before and one after a 90-minute weather delay, to rally to defeat the Nationals, 2-1, Thursday night at Citi Field. Kodai Senga started and pitched very but was on the short side of things, having allowed a solo run in his six innings of [...]
Once again, the Mets’ offense wasn’t up for the challenge. Combined with some shaky defense, the end result was a 3-1 loss to the Yankees Wednesday night in the Bronx. The Mets split the season series, 2-2. Jose Quintana seemed to be in constant danger but he gave the Mets six innings and a chance [...]
Justin Verlander hurled six scoreless innings while Pete Alonso hit two homers and drove in five runs, leading to a 9-3 Mets win over the Yankees in the Bronx Tuesday night. Alonso gave the Mets a rare first inning run, as he followed up a Brandon Nimmo double with an RBI single to give the [...]
It was another lifeless offensive performance for the Mets, who were limited to one run by seven Boston pitchers in what was a bullpen game. The final was a 6-1 loss Sunday night in Fenway. A four-run third inning knocked Carlos Carrasco out of the game and essentially put this one in the loss column [...]
The Mets won the completion of the suspended game but fell short in the nightcap, splitting the first two games of the series with the Red Sox in Boston Saturday. The Mets held a 4-3 lead when play was suspended Friday, with Brandon Nimmo and Daniel Vogelbach hitting two-run homers in the third and fourth [...]
Jose Quintana made his 2023 debut and pitched five solid innings. But Drew Smith relieved him and once again brought his gas can with him to the mound. The end result was a 6-2 White Sox win, as Chicago averted the sweep Thursday afternoon at Citi Field. Quintana gave up a run in the first [...]