The Mets snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over the Pirates Saturday night at Citi Field. The Mets broke out the long ball, with Neil Walker clubbing a two-run shot in the first inning and Jay Bruce and Wilmer Flores contributed solo shots in the third and fifth inning, respectively. Robert Gsellman, [...]
What do you do when your team built on pitching is, well, bad at pitching? To be fair, it's more a case of "pitching badly" than "bad at pitching," but this team was explicitly built on the concept of run prevention vice run production. That was the understanding, anyway, with the hope that a possible [...]
To say that tonight's affair against the Pirates was a slug fest would be an understatement. The Mets fell on the short side of a 12-7 tilt Friday night. Pitching on either side of the field was a rarity until the Pirates reached their bullpen. After a dominant start in his last outing, Matt Harvey [...]