Backed by an outstanding season debut by Seth Lugo, the New York Mets (28-33) beat the Atlanta Braves (27-35) by a score of 2-1 his afternoon for their third straight win. Pitching Seth Lugo made his first major league start since last September and was fantastic. The righty threw seven frames of one-run ball, giving up just six hits and two walks while striking out six. He only threw 90 pitches...
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In a fascinating piece in the New York Times, James Wagner writes that Mets hitting coach Kevin Long may have found the solution to Lucas Duda’s occasional offensive troubles. Long was recently looking at tape of Mike Trout’s swing when the Angels visited Citi Field for a series a few weeks ago. He began comparing Mike Trout’s swing to Duda’s. He found that Trout often...
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The Mets are in free fall. I feel as though I’ve said this a few times over the past few seasons, but it feels more real than ever. The Mets are back to the mediocre, excruciating brand of baseball that has dominated the franchise’s history. The nightmare scenario for the Mets is here. The pitching has fallen off a cliff and now has the worst ERA in all of baseball. Who would have...
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Major League Baseball and Facebook have come to an agreement to broadcast a blackout-free game every Friday, the Wall Street Journal’s Jared Diamond reports. The agreement will begin this Friday with the Reds-Rockies game. This marks the second such agreement the league has struck with a social media network. The league has been broadcasting weekly Friday games on Twitter since last year....
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New York Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson addressed the media in Milwaukee before the game on Friday to talk about the health of closer Jeurys Familia. Familia had surgery Friday afternoon and is expected to be out for several months and could possibly miss the rest of the 2017 season. Little details on the surgery yet other than that it wasn’t for thoracic outlet syndrome and was for a...
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