Gut reaction: Mets 6, Braves 4 – 9/9/2016

That's what you call a team win. The Mets came back from a 4-0 deficit to beat the Braves 6-4 in Atlanta to start the three-game series. The win, the Mets' sixth in a row, keeps them at least ahead for the second wild card, possibly even the first, pending the outcome of the Giants-Diamondbacks [...]

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Lucas Duda and the stretch run reinforcements

Here we are in the home stretch and right in the thick of things. This season has, in no way, gone the way management, players or fans could have expected. We could probably assemble a team from our disabled list (if, magically, they were all healthy) that could beat our current team. Yet somehow, we [...]

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