Bartolo Colon put the "sink" in Cinco de Mayo. And the Orioles were sunk. Colon pitched masterfully, leaving the game with two outs in the eighth, having struck out nine men and walked none. The offense came alive -- for them, anyway -- with a three-run uprising in the fourth to give the Mets just [...]
The New York Mets have typically based their winning teams off of the sole component of starting pitching. From the glory days of 1969 and 1973, to the dominant years of the mid 1980’s, heck, even the 1999-2000 and 2006 Mets had top-five team ERA’s. This tradition has carried over into 2015 with a 16-10 [...]
One good and one great article on exit speeds.
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 [...]