For the second straight day, the Mets couldn’t hold a late lead. After scoring the game’s first run in the top of the eighth inning, David Peterson allowed the tying run to score in the bottom of the eighth and Edwin Diaz surrendered the game winner in the ninth, as the Mets lost a heartbreaker [...]
The Mets have used 27 different relievers this year, down three from the 30 they used a season ago. It would be nice if they could cut that number even more in the years ahead. But, a huge number of relievers is simply par for the course these days. Some of it is due to [...]
This one hurt. The Mets jumped out to a 4-0 lead, went down 5-4, had a potential game-tying home run denied on a leaping catch and ended up on the wrong end of a 6-4 score against the Phillies. It was the first game all year when Francisco Lindor didn’t play and only the second [...]