The Mets forged another late-inning comeback, scoring all of their runs in the seventh inning en route to a 3-1 win over the Pirates Tuesday night at Citi Field. The win pushes the Mets over .500 for the first time this season, as they’re now 9-8 on the year, thanks to winning nine of their [...]
Brian Yesterday at 7:55 pm Tuesday night versus the Pirates Weird play, 2 outs runners on the corners runner on first takes off, batter hits ball to SS Lindor tries to get force at 2B but runner beats the throw But runner comes off the bag. McNeil doesn't tag the runner but throws to first [...]
In all professional sports leagues, the conventional wisdom is to play .500 versus the good teams and then clean up against the bad teams. But does it work? Here are the MLB teams that essentially played .500 versus teams who were .500 and above last year and how they fared overall: Teamvs. .500+PCTOverallPlayoffs Rays48-44.52299-63Yes Phillies47-43.52290-72Yes [...]