There continues to be a debate over whether 29-year-old Pete Alonso should remain a member of the Mets, especially with his less than stellar start to the 2024 season. While he has ramped up his hitting game this last week, including a bunch of long balls that left him one HR off the MLB lead [...]
Starling Marte and Harrison Bader each hit two-run homers to power the Mets to a 9-1 win over the Pirates and a sweep of the three-game series. The Mets have now won four in a row, six of the last seven and 10 of their last 13. Once again, the Mets fell behind only to [...]
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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 [...]
The Mets fell behind by three runs but put up two crooked run innings late to defeat the Pirates, 6-3, in the opener of a three-game set Monday night at City Field. The victory got the Mets to .500 at 8-8. Starling Marte and Francisco Lindor opened the bottom of the sixth inning with back-to-back [...]
Brian Yesterday at 7:07 pm OK, Houser, pitch like your job is on the line Wish we could compromise and allow everyone to wear 42, while having their own name on the bac good inning There you go, Lindor! Double to LF Looks like a Brewers chest protector that Alvarez is wearing back-to-back walks for [...]
On Sunday afternoon, Jose Butto took the mound and faced two challenging tasks: taking the mound on the day that the Mets retired Dwight Gooden’s No. 16, and facing a hot Kansas City Royals team. The 26-year-old right-hander rose to the occasion and then some – tossing 6.0 shutout innings while striking out a career-high [...]
After failing to score a run in four straight innings with at least two runners on base, the Mets scored twice in the eighth inning and held on for a 2-1 win over the Royals Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. It was the third straight series win for the Mets after starting out the year [...]
Brian Yesterday at 1:40 pm Let's go Butto! Brian Yesterday at 1:53 pm First pitch - 2:25 Brian Yesterday at 2:28 pm A strikeout for Butto to start the game Metsense Yesterday at 2:29 pm Butto and Hartwell replace Jay and Slusher. Brian Yesterday at 2:30 pm 2 K's Hey Metsense. I'm flipping between Mets [...]