Gut Reaction: Padres 3, Mets 1 (7/8/23)

The Mets struck out 17 times and the rare ABs where they made contact didn’t fare a lot better, as they fell to the Padres, 3-1, Saturday night in San Diego. The loss snapped a six-game winning streak. The big story was Blake Snell, who absolutely dominated the Mets the first five innings. They put [...]

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Francisco Lindor’s Mets tenure, Justin Verlander’s last seven games, the HR battle between the club’s pitchers and hitters

It’s been a weird season for Francisco Lindor. It’s been well documented how he’s had more extra-base hits than singles virtually all year. And those lack of singles has been a main contributor to his poor AVG. But his AVG has taken a nice uptick in the past two games, as he’s banged out eight [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 7, Padres 5 (10 INN) 7/7/23

The Mets rallied from an early 3-1 deficit to force extra innings, plated four runs in the top of the 10th and then hung on for a 7-5 win over the Padres Friday night in San Diego. It was their sixth-straight win, which is the longest winning streak of the year for the club. Once [...]

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The home run exploits of the 2023 Mets

This is the 62nd season of Mets baseball. If you were a fan for the first 40 years, you saw two World Series wins. You also saw a lot of rotten baseball and some pretty inept teams when it came to hitting home runs. Many people were worried about the HR capabilities of the 2023 [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 9, Diamondbacks 0 (7/6/23)

Carlos Carrasco threw eight shutout innings and Francisco Lindor had a 5-hit game to lead the Mets to a 9-0 win over the Diamondbacks and a sweep of the three-game series in Arizona. The Mets have now won five straight games, tying their longest winning streak of the season. It’s the third time this year [...]

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Mets’ starting pitching finally coming into form

When the 2023 Major League Baseball season began, the New York Mets were expected by many to be World Series contenders. The biggest reason was because of their starting pitching. The starting rotation was expected to be the Mets' biggest strength. It was led by two 3-time Cy Young Award winners in Max Scherzer and [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 2, Diamondbacks 1 (7/5/23)

The Mets rallied for two runs in the ninth inning after two were out to earn a 2-1 win over the Diamondbacks Wednesday night in Arizona. It was the Mets’ fourth-straight win. With Andrew Chafin and his 2.83 ERA on the mound looking to lock down the save, Francisco Alvarez had a 2-2 count and [...]

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