Remember back in spring training, when manager Mickey Callaway said he might spread out the save opportunities among his bullpen staff instead of relying on just Jeurys Familia? So far though, Familia has been getting the bulk of the save opportunities. Though the weekend the entire Mets’ relief corps has 14 saves this year, and [...]
The Mets extended their winning streak to four games with a 2-0 shutout of the Marlins Monday night. It was their fourth victory in as many games against the Marlins here in 2018. Jason Vargas, pitching for the first time in nearly two weeks, turned in his best pitching performance of the year. Was it [...]
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The Mets top pick from the 2017 draft was a big bodied lefty with a low 90s fastball named David Peterson. Met fans saw very little of him in his first season of minor league ball with the Mets only having Peterson throw 3.2 innings for the Brooklyn Cyclones. Now into the 2018 season he’s [...]
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For the second day in a row, the Mets used some late-inning offense -- the ol' "Five O'clock Lightning" -- to secure a win against the Arizona Diamondbacks and complete an unlikely sweep of the NL West leaders. Clay Bucholz started for Arizona. The last time Bucholz started a game, it was for the Phillies [...]
The sentimental among us were hoping to see David Wright and Jose Reyes take the field together one more time. But you can forgive anyone who feels like Wright has already retired and the clamor for Reyes to beat him to actually announcing the end of his career grows louder day by day. Many forget [...]
The Mets rallied from a late two-run deficit for a 5-4 walkoff win Saturday night against the Diamondbacks. It was the first time since the end of the team’s nine-game winning streak that the Mets had won back-to-back games. The day started off with the wonderful news that the club DFAd Jose Lobaton. And the [...]