3 UP 1. Resiliency There’s a lot of negative things you can say about this Mets team, and with how they’ve been playing of late, we’ve all said them repeatedly. Through all of it, we’ve failed to notice how resilient this team is. Even with all the bullpen meltdowns, this team fights late into games. They respond to bad losses by putting up first inning runs. This series...
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Here’s one last Mock Draft to peruse as written by Andrew Lawrence from our friends at the Sporting News. Unlike other major professional sports, the MLB draft is unique in the sense that there is a rarely a consensus on who the top prospects are and where they will be drafted, with much more depending on projection, as many of the players taken in early in the draft are seniors in high...
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The New York Mets badly needed a win on Wednesday night to get a split in the four-game series against the Atlanta Braves and shortstop Amed Rosario was a big reason why they pulled out a 4-1 victory. Rosario made the defense play of the game – perhaps most important of the season to date – in the bottom of the eighth inning with Mets up two runs and runners on first and third with...
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Coming off a miserable 67-pitch outing on Saturday that saw five runs come across on a homer, six hits, and two walks, Jason Vargas answered the bell in a series finale the New York Mets seemed destined but ultimately could not afford to lose. Working five scoreless innings on 65 pitches (44 strikes), the lefty notched his second win of the year while lowering his earned run average to 8.53...
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Reno (23-31) 8, Las Vegas (22-32) 5 Box Score Kevin Kaczmarski CF: 4-5, 2B, .529/.545/.706 Dominic Smith RF: 1-5, 2B, .276/.371/.397 Ty Kelly SS: 2-5, 2B, K, .268/.338/.475 Zach Borenstein LF: 3-5, 2B, 2 RBI, .238/.338/.418 The 51s had a lot of chances, but blew most of them going just 4-21 with runners in scoring position. Down 5-1 in the sixth, they manufactured a few runs on RBI groundouts...
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