Here is Tuesday’s lineup against the Atlanta Braves: Ruben Tejada, ss Daniel Murphy, 2b David Wright, 3b Ike Davis, 1b Jason Bay, lf Lucas Duda, rf Josh Thole, c Kirk Nieuwenhuis, cf Johan Santana, lhp The Mets look to win their second straight series and their second series against the Braves in 2012 tonight as they take on the Braves in Atlanta. Last night’s game featured a very strong outing from Dillon Gee as he [...]

Starting Lineup Ruben Tejada – SS Daniel Murphy – 2B David Wright – 3B Ike Davis – 1B Jason Bay – LF Lucas Duda – RF Josh Thole – C Kirk Nieuwenhuis – CF Dillon Gee – RHP The Mets travel down to Atlanta tonight to take on the Braves for the second time this year. In the first meeting this year, the Mets took all three games on their way to their quick start [...]

David Wright took some nice swings in the batting cage today and afterward the Mets announced he would play today and be in today’s lineup, and batting third. Mets Starting Lineup Ruben Tejada SS Daniel Murphy 2B David Wright 3B Ike Davis 1B Jason Bay LF Lucas Duda RF Kirk Nieuwenhuis CF Josh Thole C Jon Niese LHP The Mets took the opener of the series last night by the score of 5-2 as the Mets powered 2 [...]

Starting Lineup: 1. Ruben Tejada, SS 2. Daniel Murphy, 2B 3. Justin Turner, 3B 4. Ike Davis, 1B 5. Jason Bay, LF 6. Lucas Duda, RF 7. Scott Hairston, CF 8. Josh Thole, C 9. R.A. Dickey, P The Mets start their first road series of the season tonight as they go down to Philly. After starting off the season 4-0, the Mets dropped two games in a row to Washington. Tonight’s game features the [...]

UPDATE: Mets just reported that David Wright has been scratched from tonight’s game due to a bruised right pinky. Ronny Cedeno will play third base and bat second. Starting Lineup Ruben Tejada, ss Ronny Cedeno, 3b Daniel Murphy, 2b Jason Bay, lf Lucas Duda, rf Justin Turner, 1b Scott Hairston, cf Mike Nickeas, c Dillon Gee, rhp The Mets look to continue their fast start to the season tonight by clinching their second consecutive series win. Last [...]

The Mets play game two of the season this afternoon as they take on the Atlanta Braves. The Mets pitching locked down the Braves in the Home Opener as Santana pitched 5 scoreless and a near perfect bullpen closed the door behind them. On the other side of the ball, the Mets were able to get runners on the bases, but bringing them in was a major problem as they beat the Braves by 1-0. [...]

Baseball finally returns today as the Mets take on the Braves in Queens to start the 2012 season. Let’s just jump right into what is going on today, rather than focus on the season as a whole, which is usually what today is for. For the Mets the major story line of the day is the return of Johan Santana who will be pitching in the majors for the first time since September 2010. Back [...]

The Mets and Reds close out the season today as the Mets look to end on a high note. Once again, the story for the Mets will be if Reyes can hold to the league lead in batting average. Today Miguel Batista will be facing Edinson Volquez. Batista is 1-0 on the season over 21.2 innings of work with an ERA of 3.47. This season against the Reds he has logged 0.2 innings while allowing [...]

The Mets and Reds play game two of this final series of the season as the Mets look to end their slide. To be honest though, the reason we are all watching at this point is mostly to see if Reyes can take the NL Batting title, as he just barely leads Braun. Capuano will get the start for the Mets tonight as he goes against Arroyo. Capuano is 11-12 with a 4.55 ERA going [...]

The Mets and Reds open up the last series of the 2011 season tonight as the Mets look to end the season on a strong note. Yesterday, the Mets dropped the series finale to the Phillies, after taking the two previous games. Tonight Schwinden gets the start for the Mets as he takes on Bailey of the Reds. Schwinden is 0-2 this season in three major league career starts where he has logged 16.0 innings [...]

The Mets and Phillies start a series today in Queens. The Mets are on a high after one of the more improbable comebacks of the year as the Mets scored 6 runs in the top of the ninth against a team that needed to win. So for first time in a while the Mets got to play spoiler against someone else. Anyway, tonight Dickey will get the start as he goes against Hamels. Dickey is [...]