The Mets entered play on Sunday looking for the series sweep against the Nationals. Jose Reyes hit a one out triple right down the first base line in the first. Jay Bruce followed with an RBI single through the shift to make it 1-0 in favor of the Mets. In the bottom half of the [...]
Ideally, you want your best players getting the most PA. As you might imagine, things haven’t exactly been ideal so far for the 2017 Mets. Only one of their top five players in PA is off to a good start in Jay Bruce. This is due to injuries to their good players, slumps by guys [...]
Well, this was most unexpected. After listless, lethargic play, after horrible fielding, horrible luck and horrible injuries on their 1-7 homestand, the Mets have hit the road and taken two straight from their division-leading tormentors, the Washington Nationals. Away from Citi Field, the play has been crisper and the excitement level raised. The Mets took [...]
Injuries happen. Unfortunately, they are a large part of the game and how it is managed. No one on the Mets should understand this more than Lucas Duda, whose career with the Mets has been hindered with many injuries. Since his debut in 2010, Duda has sustained three lower back injuries. The latest injury Duda [...]
Thursday was a rough day for Matt Harvey. He stumbled his way through just 4 1/3 innings after being given short notice that he'd be starting against the Braves in place of Noah Syndergaard. After starting off strong in the first, he got knocked around for five hits and six earned runs while walking a [...]
Whew! We really, really needed that win. Prior to the game, Terry Collins spoke about a sense of urgency, and it sure felt more like a September playoff push game than an April contest. But after lousy play, lousy weather, and lousy injuries dropped this team to last place, Collins wasn't going to stand for [...]
This is 100 percent hindsight. Around this time yesterday, my expectation was that Noah Syndergaard was going to pitch in Thursday afternoon’s game. Instead, he couldn’t go and Matt Harvey went to the mound in his place. Harvey struggled with both velocity and command and had his worst start of 2017 as the Mets went [...]
This is an old tale And not a happy one But full of woe, alas, and pain! The 2017 Mets, the team that reminds us, daily it seems, that things can always get worse. Wednesday we saw Robert Gsellman, our preseason Rookie of the Year candidate, get clobbered in the first inning on his way [...]