David Peterson came into Tuesday night’s game struggling with walks and homers. The good news is that he allowed just one walk and did not serve up a gopher ball. The bad news is that he gave up eight hits and four runs without making it out of the third inning, as the Mets got [...]
Center field has been an unsettled position for the Mets in recent years, dating back to when Carlos Beltran was patrolling the outfield pastures and terrorizing opposing pitchers. This year the Mets have really had to dig deep down on their center field depth chart. This was due to the nearly unprecedented injury wave that [...]
Baseball fans, me included, love hyperbolic statements about the teams and players they love, and even those we “don’t.” On any Spring day, for example say March 15th, every team is loaded with 5-tool players, a rotation of aces several of which could be a potential Cy Young winner, and almost certainly an MVP-caliber player. [...]
Marcus Stroman gave up just an unearned run in 6.2 IP, while also contributing an RBI double, leading the Mets to a 6-2 win over the Padres Sunday afternoon and a split of the 4-game series. The Padres put runners on base in six of the seven innings against Stroman but were able to get [...]
In the last five games, the Mets have used their five best available starting pitchers, something which hasn’t happened very much this year. But because of a lousy start from David Peterson, the bullpen needed to provide 19 innings. And this despite three road losses that only required eight innings from the staff. In an [...]
Jacob deGrom continued to be the best pitcher in baseball and the Mets decided to score some runs for him and the result was a 4-0 win for the Mets Saturday night in San Diego. deGrom had one inning where he had trouble, as the Padres loaded the bases with one out in the fourth [...]
The Mets are now 2-12 against teams with a winning record. The offense just hasn’t been able to score runs against the better teams. Here is the offensive output in those 14 games against teams .500 and above: CHC – 1, 4, 3 BOS – 1, 0 STL – 5, 1, 7, 4 TBR – [...]
For the second straight night, the Mets did just enough to lose, getting shut out by the Padres, 2-0, Friday night in San Diego. The Mets were held without a hit until Francisco Lindor singled leading off the seventh. Lindor wound up on third base thanks to a fielding error and with nobody out, it [...]
