Gut Reaction: Mets 5, Nationals 0 (4/9/22)

Chris Bassitt pitched six scoreless innings in his Mets debut and Pete Alonso hit his first career grand slam in the majors to power the Mets to a 5-0 win over the Nationals Saturday night in D.C. Bassitt showed excellent breaking stuff, which helped his low 90s fastball look more impressive than you’d think that [...]

Jeff McNeil is playing himself off the trade market

Yeah, it’s only two games. I know. Two games against the Washington Nationals, this year’s NL East putative doormats. So as is the case every April, all enthusiasm is tempered by the fact that the sun hasn’t really risen on this season yet. But man, the Mets look good! Tylor Megill’s surprise quality start in [...]