Wow, what a week. Some smart guy wrote this, early last Thursday. Last Thursday. Before we found out Noah Syndergaard would miss that afternoon’s start. Before we watched Yoenis Cespedes hit a run-scoring double, but barely make it to second base with a pulled hamstring. Before a daunting weekend series in Washington, where the Mets [...]
Double your pleasure, double your fun. The Mets came into tonight's game twelfth in the National League in doubles, having only hit 34. They hit more than a quarter of that against the Braves. Here was the story to this game: the Mets hit nine doubles and went 12-for-20 with runners in scoring position. That [...]
Ace Met pitcher Noah Syndergaard is on the DL after an abbreviated start against Washington, one that ended in an all too painful debacle for the Mets. The right-handed power pitcher has been diagnosed with a partial tear to his right lat muscle, with no time table as of yet for his return. Mets management [...]
It was clear from the onset of the ball game that Matt Harvey did not have his best stuff tonight. He gave up his seventh home run on the season already, which is an issue that becomes more and more pressing with each start. Harvey surrendered six runs on eight hits over 5.1 innings pitched. [...]
The Mets suffered through a most disastrous weekend. Even though they managed to take two of three games on the road versus the Nationals, they suffered great losses both on and off the field. To add insult to injury, not only did they lose Noah Syndergaard for an indeterminate amount of time, they were pounded [...]
The Mets won their first ever game at Sun Trust Park and it was a team effort. The team finally made Julio Teheran look human, jumping out to an early lead on a Michael Conforto solo home run, before lighting him up in the 4th inning. Ten Mets batters got up in the fourth contributing [...]
We’ve talked about promotion Smith and Rosario to help the floundering Flushing Mets but both the team is hesitant to throw those players into roles as potential saviors of the franchise. Meanwhile, there are a few players who can help the big league club right away and potentially stop the bleeding until we get off [...]
Plawecki allowed 3 HR and approximately 3,000 feet of balls in the air
The Mets entered play on Sunday looking for the series sweep against the Nationals. Jose Reyes hit a one out triple right down the first base line in the first. Jay Bruce followed with an RBI single through the shift to make it 1-0 in favor of the Mets. In the bottom half of the [...]