Steven Matz is one of the best young pitchers in the game, and a key part to the Mets core young pitching rotation. The only lefty on the staff, Matz was given the opportunity by Mets’ manager Terry Collins to pitch in game four of the National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, [...]
1970 TOPPS WORLD CHAMPIONS This here is a totem. I was five-years old back in 1970, and flush with a new enthusiasm for baseball in general, and the Mets in particular. Every Sunday after church my family would drive to the local stationery store, and assuming that I hadn't tested anyone's patience too greatly during [...]
The Mets moved to within one win of the World Series as they went into Wrigley Field and beat the Cubs, 5-2, Tuesday night. Jacob deGrom didn't appear to have his best stuff/control yet he still limited the Cubs to two runs over seven innings, with both coming via solo homers. While his control seemed [...]
The Mets are in the postseason. That sounds weird. In any event, the Mets currently stand two games above the Cubs in the NLCS. It’s never okay to say a series is over before the final out, but confidence is key for the Mets. While the Mets will be sending Jacob deGrom, Steven Matz, and [...]
It is by now a secret to no one around the league that the Mets have a formidable pitching staff. Young and full of high velocity stuff, Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey and Noah Syndergaard have been lighting up the October competition to an even more impressive degree than most thought possible. After all, this is [...]
Normally I would be writing about the minor leagues but, as I got the rare chance to watch the Mets take a 2-0 lead in the NLCS last night, I am going to focus on something else. Chiefly I will write about the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of last night’s win against the [...]
It's Daniel Murphy's world, we're all just living in it. Papa Murph hit yet another big home run, this time to drive in David Wright who had a run-scoring double of his own in the previous at-bat. It was Wright's first hit since Game 1 of the NLDS, but it was Murphy's fourth home run [...]
My father was born in 1919 and grew up in the Bronx. In a neighborhood filled almost exclusively with Yankees’ fans he became a New York Giants fan. In introducing me to baseball in the mid 1950’s and specifically to Giants’ history he often cited the accomplishment of Carl Hubbell who in the 1934 All-Star [...]
We heard so much about the Cubs hitting six home runs in Game 3 of the NLDS and 10 homers overall in their 3-1 win over the Cardinals. If the Mets were to win this series, their young pitchers were going to have to limit the long ball or else the Cubs would run away [...]
The Mets received a stellar pitching performance from Matt Harvey and jumped out to the early lead in the NLCS with a 4-2 victory over the Cubs Saturday night in Citi Field. Harvey allowed two runs over 7.2 innings but just as importantly, he established dominance early, as he struck out five of the first [...]