The New York Mets and Toronto Blue Jays complete a home-and-home series at 7:07 p.m. ET on Thursday night at Rogers Centre. Bartolo Colon (9-4, 4.41) and ex-Met R.A. Dickey (2-6, 5.29) will mix it up in a battle of 40-something mound veterans. Colon seeks to join Pittsburgh’s Gerrit Cole as MLB’s only 10-game winners. Bartolo Colon leads the majors with 16 wins since last year’s...
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In a year highlighted by one of the league’s best rotations, a big reason the Mets remain atop the National League East 67 games into the season, some fans remain unsatisfied with one particular member of that rotation. Jon Niese has had the worst start to a season of his career posting an ERA over 7 in his first 10 starts. Met fans everywhere have made it no secret that they have just...
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Here it is Thursday, June 18 and the New York Mets find themselves in first place with a 36-31 record and a 1 1/2 game lead over the Washington Nationals. It feels good. It’s amazing when you think about it. The Mets have played some exciting baseball this season and I couldn’t be happier with how things have transpired thus far. Our starting pitching has been everything we could...
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Las Vegas (38-29) 5, Salt Lake 1 Steven Matz bounced back from his worst start of the year to throw a gem going 7 shutout innings to pick up his 7th win of the season also pushing the 51’s win streak to 7 games. Matz needed just 87 pitches (53 strikes) to finish his 7 sparkling innings giving up just four hits and a walk while striking out five. He still leads the Pacific Coast League in...
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The Mets needed an extra arm in their overworked bullpen. So earlier this week, they bought up pitcher Akeel Morris all the way from Class-A St Lucie mainly because he was already on the 40-man roster. The 22-year old righty made his major league debut on Wednesday against the Blue Jays in Toronto and got hammered, giving up 5 runs in just two-thirds of an inning. Immediately after the game,...
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