Jeff McNeil and Eduardo Escobar deliver the big hits to reward the ‘grind it out’ offense

With a bad loss on Friday night, Charlie had to write the doom and gloom piece on Saturday. But with Saturday’s big win, it’s my fortune to write about how the sun is shining. It’s like on “The Great British Baking Show,” where I get to be Noel Fielding and announce who wins Star Baker. [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 7, Padres 3 (10/8/22)

The Mets, with their backs to the wall, facing a wild-card elimination game against the Padres, sent ace Jacob deGrom to the mound. We didn’t see the vintage deGrom of his 2018-2019 Cy Young Award winning seasons, but neither did we see the deGrom of the last two weeks, fortunately. The Mets bats woke up, [...]

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