The Mets are struggling, having lost 10 of their last 13 games. Everyone has been quick to point to the starting pitching, which has indeed been awful. Injuries have caused the Mets to use nine different starting pitchers already and that doesn’t include offseason acquisition Jose Quintana, who has yet to throw a pitch for [...]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – a Mets starting pitcher failed to go five innings and the offense continued to be inept. That combination led to a 5-2 loss to the Rockies Saturday afternoon at Citi Field. Tylor Megill got the start and was pitching out of the stretch virtually the entire [...]
In Friday night’s game, Kodai Senga issued back-to-back walks with two outs in the third inning, the second time in the game he walked two in the same frame. But from that point forward, here’s what Senga did: F8 KL 3U 1B CF FC 6U L8 P5 Ks F8 43 1B to 1B 63 After [...]
The struggling Mets’ offense put up just one run but because the pitching was both good and lucky, the Mets were able to snap their three-game losing streak with a 1-0 victory over the Rockies Friday night at Citi Field. Kodai Senga had some trouble with walks but the Rockies did next to nothing against [...]
Early in my Mets’ fandom the club’s biggest power threat was John Milner, nicknamed The Hammer. He was a nice little player but he really wasn’t much of a HR guy. But the Mets then were known much more for pitching than hitting. And then the club acquired Dave Kingman. And if there was one [...]
Another dismal day for the offense had the Mets getting shut out, 2-0, by the Tigers Thursday afternoon in Detroit. The loss meant they got swept by a second division club. It also dropped the club’s record to 16-16 on the season. It seems a lifetime ago when they were 14-7. It may not be [...]
Throughout their franchise history, the New York Mets have had many great position players. In the past, there was Keith Hernandez and Darryl Strawberry during the 1980s, Mike Piazza in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and Carlos Beltran, Jose Reyes and David Wright afterwards. Currently, the Mets have good hitters in Pete Alonso, Jeff [...]
There may be worse ways to lose a doubleheader but none jump immediately to mind. The Tigers came into these games 10-17 and near the bottom, if not dead last, in virtually every offensive category. So, they earn a come-from behind victory in Game 1 and then ambush Max Scherzer in Game 2 to sweep [...]
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