Gut reaction: Diamondbacks 10, Mets 6 – 8/15/2016

Boo! Hiss. No loss is pretty, but the Mets seem to lose ugly these days. This loss was a group effort that can be blamed on bad pitching, costly errors and the usual lack of hitting with runners in scoring position. Bartolo Colon didn't have his best stuff, lasting only four innings and surrendering nine [...]

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Mets Minors: Desmond Lindsay is showing Brooklyn fans something oddly familiar

Before Michael Conforto there hadn’t been a whole lot of players who succeeded, offensively, for the Brooklyn Cyclones. Then, there’s Desmond Lindsay. At the age of 19 (two years younger than Conforto had been) he’s putting a major stamp on the New York-Penn League and is looking like a fast riser within the Met system. [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 5, Padres 1 (8/14/16)

The Mets won back-to-back games for the first time in over a month with a 5-1 win in the rubber match of the three-game set with the Padres Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. The last time the Mets won two straight was July 6-7. Between July 8 and August 12, the Mets were 10-20. Steven [...]

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Jacob deGrom’s no decisions, Erik Goeddel’s WHIP, RISP update

Jacob deGrom pitched a tremendous game last night. Wait, wait – stop me if you’ve heard this one before, he got a no decision. Yep, 7 IP, 1 ER, 1 BB, 9 Ks and not a win to show for it, as after scoring six runs the night before, the Mets needed extra innings to [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 3, Padres 2 [11 INN] (8/13/16)

The Mets defeated the Padres at Citi Field tonight, and all it took was 11 innings. It brought them back to .500 and snapped their four-game losing streak. Jacob deGrom, continuing to prove he's this team's true ace, pitched a great one that he deserved to win but obviously didn't. His only mistake was not [...]

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The Mets, Jason Heyward, and dodging a 2016 bullet

Hey, it's not all bad, right? It might not seem like it, and you may not believe it with the pending news on Zack Wheeler, but things actually could have been even worse for these 2016 Mets. If some folks got their way, we may not even talking about a wild card spot right now. [...]

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Gut Reaction: Padres 8, Mets 6 (8/12/16)

The Mets lost to the Padres tonight at Citi Field by a score of 8-6. It was the Mets' fourth loss in a row, dropping them to 57-58. They hadn't been below .500 since April before this loss. Logan Verrett started this one and followed his bad previous start with an utterly garbage outing against [...]

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