Author: Anthony E. Parelli

The Mets may not be buried yet, but if the Dodgers broke ground on their gravesite over the weekend, the Giants – shovels in hand – are about knee deep in the proverbial hole. The Giants flexed the muscles that have made them the best team in the league to this point, defeating the Mets 7-5 Monday night in the Bay. It was the Mets’ fourth straight loss, dropping them 3.5 games out of first...

  Tylor Megill has been a godsend for the injury-riddled Mets this season. So, when he gave up four runs before recording an out, it was up to the Met bats to pick him up. In short, they didn’t, losing 6-3 to the Marlins in Miami Monday night in game one of a four-game set. The Mets went 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base. They’ve dropped four of their last...

For three innings, it looked like Taijuan Walker may have regained the form that earned him his first All-Star nod earlier this month. But he was touched up for five runs over the next two innings and the Mets were unable to come back, dropping the rubber game of this five-game series, 6-3, to the Braves on Thursday afternoon at Citi Field. The loss moved Walker’s ERA to 3.71 on the year,...

Thanks to their terrible injury luck, the Mets have needed – and received – contributions from a bevy of unfamiliar faces. Rookie pitcher Tylor Megill and (to a lesser extent) journeyman reserve Brandon Drury have planted themselves firmly on that list. Megill, who celebrated his 26th birthday Wednesday, was stellar again through 5 1/3 innings, holding the Braves to a lone run in the Mets’...

Still short on starting pitchers, the Mets needed a heroic effort out of their bullpen if they wanted to salvage the second game of Monday’s double header. That’s exactly what they got, as six pitchers combined for seven shutout innings to make Jeff McNeil’s RBI double stand up in the Mets’ 1-0 win over the Braves Monday night at Citi Field. The win gave the Mets their ninth split in 11...