Gut Reaction: Nationals 5, Mets 4 (7/12/18)

The Mets hit three home runs, two off Max Scherzer, but it wasn’t enough as they fell to the Nationals, 5-4, in the first of a four-game series. One of the big hopes for this season was with Terry Collins no longer in the dugout that we would get away from the matchup masturbation. But [...]

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As the Mets’ season goes dark, Brandon Nimmo and Jacob deGrom are bright lights.

37-53. Looking up at the first place Philadelphia Phillies – and who saw that one coming?  Thirteen-and-a-half games out of first place, a half-game out of last.  This is the state of the Mets, the state of the fans’ misery.  The joke going around is that Citi Field was built on a Native American burial [...]

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