The Reds used four two-out hits in the bottom of the first inning to jump Kodai Senga with a four spot and they cruised from there to a 5-0 win Thursday afternoon in Cincinnati. By losing the rubber game here, the Mets dropped their fifth straight series since splitting a four-game set with the Giants [...]
Coming into the season, Kodai Senga was the big unknown in the rotation, as nobody was sure how his stuff would translate coming over to the U.S. With six starts under his belt, we’re still not really sure what to expect from Senga. His record is a nifty 4-1 but all six starts were against [...]
Justin Verlander came up with a much-needed deep outing and the offense did just enough to come up with the win, as the Mets edged the Reds, 2-1, Wednesday night in Cincinnati. The Mets did nothing in the first inning, with each of their first three batters going down on strikes. And Verlander got hit [...]
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For the second straight game, the offense acquitted itself but the pitching kept the Mets from cracking the win column, as the club dropped a 7-6 decision to the Reds in Cincinnati Tuesday night. Max Scherzer was scheduled to start for the Mets but a neck injury kept him from making the start. This gave [...]
For many decades, it was usual for MLB teams to bat their best all-around hitter in the third spot of the batting order. Players like Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial and Ted Williams, among many others, usually hit third in the batting order. More recently some teams have gone to placing their best hitter [...]
The Mets began the year with their Top eight players in the farm system all being position players and while we’ve seen positive signs from most of these names it feels like the future of Mets starting pitching might not be as bright and rosy as we’d like it to be. Part of this is [...]
There’s a story from the Mets’ early days, when a fan called a newspaper to see how the team did. When told they scored 19 runs, his response was, “Did they win?” The Mets put up six runs on Sunday but didn’t come close to winning, as they fell to the Rockies, 13-6. With the [...]
