Gut Reaction: Phillies 5 Mets 2 (10/2/16)

This was a "Day After" game, the next game after the Mets' post-season clincher. It showed. The Mets closed out their regular season with a sloppy, listless performance in Philadelphia and it doesn't matter a damn. Gabriel Ynoa started for the Mets and turned in a perfectly serviceable four-and-two-thirds innings of work, walking one, striking [...]

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Mets’ late-season surge fueled by RISP performance

Here on the final day of the regular season, the Mets are 14th in the National League with a .676 OPS with RISP. The average NL team has a triple slash line of .256/.341/.415 while the Mets check in with a .225/.305/.372 line. It’s pretty amazing that they’ve made the playoffs with those numbers. But [...]

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