In what was an awesome game, then an awful game, and then an awesome game again in the span of ten minutes, the Mets defeated the Dodgers 6-5 in walk-off fashion in the opening game of the series and of this home stand. The big story heading into the game was the debut of uber [...]
With cleanup hitter and first baseman Lucas Duda expected to be out four-to-six weeks with a stress fracture in his lower back, the Mets find themselves in quite a pickle. When the season began, the Mets front office thought they had infield depth to spare and DFA’d long-time Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada to save on [...]
Curtis Granderson and Bryce Harper are the starting right fielders for the top two teams in the National League East. After that, it becomes a lot harder to compare them. Harper seemingly gets better all of the time and is a youngster who’s in the conversation for best player in the game. Granderson is on [...]
In the gaudy theatrics of professional wrestling, sometimes specific assigned roles shift to maximize a star’s popularity. The clean-cut man’s man, held up as a shining example of the “good guy” while racking up win after win will, at some point, grow out his hair, sport a fu Manchu and start fighting dirty. Just look [...]
The Mets took the away series with the Nationals behind the dazzling pitching of Steven Matz. The young lefty was in control from start to finish, delivering eight shutout innings, that included retiring 16 batters in a row at one point. He struck out seven and allowed just four singles and a walk. Matz cruised [...]
Let’s not mince words here: Eric Campbell is a very poor excuse for a major league baseball player. Now he may be a wonderful person and a great addition to the locker room environment but players at the top level of the game are expected to have major league tools. Superstars have all five while [...]
Sad Harvey may soon replace sad Keanu as the meme of the moment. The struggling righty had another bad night on the mound, surrendering five runs on three homers. In just five innings of work, Matt Harvey gave up eight hits, two walks and struck out just one. Harvey actually looked okay in the first [...]
The Mets have been riding their relievers hard here in the beginning of 2016, as their starters have not been able to consistently go seven or more innings. On Saturday, Addison Reed pitched in his third straight game and Sunday it was Jeurys Familia’s turn to pitch three in a row. But Monday night Bartolo [...]
On a day the Mets got some devastating news about the health of Lucas Duda, the Zen presence of Bartolo Colon once again calmed everyone's fears. Colon pitched seven mainly uneventful innings, allowing five singles and a bare first inning run. For their part, the Mets battered erstwhile Met-killer Gio Gonzalez to the tune of [...]