The Mets' four-game winning streak came to an end Friday night, as the Pirates came in to Citi Field and escaped with a 3-2 win in extra innings. The groundswell is building for the Mets to bring back Terry Collins as manager but he showed poor judgment with his relief pitchers in this game. In [...]
Daniel Murphy may be in the final stretch of his career with the Mets but if so, he’s going out with a bang. In his last nine games, he has a .385/.415/.641 line while bouncing all around the infield, even dusting off his first baseman’s mitt with the back injury that has slowed Lucas Duda [...]
As Keith Hernandez indicated, we might not even need to deliver a knockout punch when the season concludes with a three-game series against the Washington Nationals. We’ve got a four-and-a-half game lead in the National League East, momentum on our side and a relatively easy schedule the rest of the way. For the first time [...]
“When we’re all gone and Suhboda [sic] stays and he commences to hit balls over buildings, who says he won’t lead this club to ten or a dozen pennants?” – Casey Stengel, spring training, 1965 The Mets, sudden winners and the current innamorata of New York City, have never lacked for “folk heroes” – players [...]
The Mets finished off their four-game sweep of the Rockies with a 12-3 win Thursday afternoon at Citi Field. It was the 11th sweep of the year for the Mets and second of a four-game set. New York is now 63-52, the first time all season its been 11 games over .500. Nine of the [...]
The New York Mets are on a roll these days and the baseball world is taking notice. They've been the focus of MLB ad campaigns and even stealing the back pages of the New York newspapers from their cross-town rival Yankees. Yes, life is good currently in Queens these days, but it almost wasn't this [...]
The Mets notched their third straight win and their 12 victory in their last 16 games with a 3-0 shutout of the Rockies Wednesday night. Jacob deGrom continued his marvelous streak of pitching, hurling seven shutout innings with 10 strikeouts. The only negative was he ended the team's streak of walkless innings. In fact, he [...]
The New York Mets have been dubbed the biggest story of 2015 by many sports writers, and rightfully so. This season, the Mets have gone from the best team in baseball, to one of the worst teams, and back to one of the best. The Mets’ recent success is mostly due to the additions made [...]
One of the hardest things a manager has to do is run his bullpen and there are very few skippers who do it well year in and year out. There are a number of reasons for this and one of them is the sample size issue. It’s rare for a current reliever to exceed 80 [...]