On Saturday, after the the young first base Kendry Morales hit a game-ending grand slam in the 10th inning of the Angels’ 5-1 victory against Seattle, Morales had to be carted away from home plate and sent to the hospital. Morales broke his left leg after landing awkwardly at home plate. Followed by his team pummeling him in their celebration. Morales was throwing his arms in the air, trying to get his team to stop. Morales [...]

This couldn’t be more true.  They win a few, they lose a few, then they win a few more.  That’s not exactly the consistency we’re looking for.  Every time you start to think that this team is the team to beat, wham-oh!!  They go on a losing streak.  Similarly, every time you think that they suck beyond belief, bam!!  They go on a tear. The key to a winning season — or at least .500 [...]

Last night, Philadelphia Phillies ace Roy Halladay threw the 20th perfect game in major league history, facing the minimum number of 27 Florida Marlins batters and retiring all of them in order in a 1-0 win. He struck out eleven of them. It was without a doubt, the best performance of his All-Star career. Halladay struck out 11, then got pinch-hitter Ronny Paulino to ground out to end it, and even though there were a couple [...]

Earlier today, after starting Angels 1B Kendry Morales went down with an injury, it was mentioned that the Angels have no solid backup plan at 1B. Can the Mets be players? The Mets currently have Daniel Murphy rehabbing at AAA, and with Brandon Wood struggling as well at 3B for the Angels, could he be a fit? Murphy could platoon between 1B and 3B and possibly be a good trading chip with a team the Mets [...]

The New York Mets Cubans continue their poor performances on the road (6-16) as they lose game two of the series to the Milwaukee Brewers Bears, 8-6. Negro League Remembrance Night, of all nights. Game Notes The Mets sent out the bullpen workhorse Fernando Nieve for his first start of the season. Jerry Manuel, during pre-game, said he would limit Nieve’s pitch count to 80 pitches. He reached more than half that in just the [...]

AAA International League: Buffalo 4/11/0, Toledo 5/7/0 cf Jesus Feliciano 2 for 4, 2 runs, K, .383 ss Justin Turner 3 for 4, K, .272 dh Daniel Murphy 1 for 4, .222 3b Mike Hessman 1 for 3, run, HR (17), 2 RBI (53!), BB, .308 1b Mike Jacobs 1 for 4, 2b, K, .266 lf Andy Green 2 for 4, run, 2b, HR, RBI, .282 rf Russ Adams 0 for 4, .285 c JR [...]

After the bitter taste of last nights walk-off loss against the Brewers wore off, I recalled it wasn’t that long ago that we lost in similar fashion against the Braves in Atlanta. I decided to look further and went to the best place for Mets research, Baseball Reference.  It took a while to go through every boxscore, but after double checking and triple checking here is what I discovered… The Mets have already amassed six walk-off [...]

You could almost hear the Brewers bench let out a collective sigh of relief when they saw Pedro Feliciano take the mound for the ninth inning. No longer would they have to face a dominating Johan Santana who had held them in check for the first eight innings of the game. All they could muster was three hits against Johan, who effectively confounded the Astros all night with his fastball, slider and cunning changeup. Johan was [...]