Gut Reaction: Phillies 2, Mets 1 (4/30/21)

The first five months of 2016 the Mets couldn’t hit with RISP and it was painful. In 2013, Terry Collins wrote the names John Buck, Ike Davis and Ruben Tejada into the lineup day after day after day when all three were hitting worse than pitchers. It was so bad – they were dubbed here [...]

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Mets’ struggles to score runs shows the importance of offense to team success

As we head to the last day of April, the Reds lead the National League with a 5.33 runs per game average. Meanwhile, the NL has a 4.31 rpg average. And the Mets? As you might have guessed, they are last in the 15-team league with a 3.00 mark. It makes a certain preseason prediction [...]

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