For the second year in a row, Framber Valdez handcuffed the Mets over eight innings and while the Mets put up some offense late, they fell to the Astros by a 4-2 score Tuesday night in Houston. Valdez was perfect thru 5.1 IP until Mark Canha ripped a clean single to right. But the next [...]
It was a tough week of poor pitching and a lack of timely hitting that has brought us to this turning point in the season. Max Scherzer disintegrated last Tuesday against the crosstown rivals, and what was worse was with TV blackouts, only the YES network, with Yankee broadcasters, played the game on TV. Justin [...]
Max Scherzer posted 8 IP, 1 ER, 1 BB and 8 Ks last night versus the Astros. This is the type of start most fans envisioned from him this year. Perhaps not quite this good but in this ballpark. And not only from Scherzer but Justin Verlander, too. And fans hoped that other pitchers would [...]