Jorge Lopez shut the door in the 10th inning and Jake Diekman got a strikeout with the tying run on third base as the Mets defeated the Phillies, 6-5, Thursday night in Philadelphia. The victory gave the Mets their first win in the finale of back-to-back, home-and-home, two-game series between NL East rivals. After going [...]
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Old baseball wisdom states that you’re going to win one-third of your games no matter what you do and lose one-third in the same fashion. It’s what you do in the other third of the games that determine your season. What if we took that same mindset and applied it to how teams handle their [...]
The Mets got some hits and scored some runs but it was another pitiful outing, as they fell to the Phillies, 10-5, Wednesday night in Philadelphia. They’ve now lost five of their last six games and are now 4-9 in the month of May. The Mets scored two unearned runs early and had a 2-1 [...]
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Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. Please use this space instead of going off topic on the most-recent thread.
If Monday’s loss to the Phillies was the most disappointing one of the year, Tuesday’s 4-0 setback needs a tag, too. It felt like both teams were playing hungover for the majority of the game. Hungover? Apathetic? Impotent? Those all seem like good descriptions of the Mets’ play in this game. You could say the [...]
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From the comfort of my office chair, here are the moves I’d like to see the Mets make today: 1. Send down Brett Baty, DFA Joey Wendle and call up Jose Iglesias and Mark Vientos to the majors. It’s far from certain to me that either Iglesias or Vientos are roster-worthy. But it’s pretty clear [...]
Edwin Diaz couldn’t hold a two-run lead in the ninth inning and the Mets couldn’t score in either the ninth or 10th, which led to a 5-4 loss to the Phillies Monday night. As Gus said in the Game Chatter, this might have been the most disappointing loss of the year. How disappointing was it? [...]
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In Part I, we saw that the Mets had a 2.06 runs per game difference in what they posted at home versus their production in road games, with the latter being the higher mark. Additionally, we saw that they played tougher opponents at home than on the road, as after removing their results versus the [...]