Good morning, Mets fans! Let’s play two. The Red Sox, off to a 10-17 start, are cleaning house. Boston fired manager Alex Cora Saturday along with hitting coach Peter Fatse, third base coach Kyle Hudson, bench coach Ramon Vazquez, assistant hitting coach Dillon Lawson and major league hitting strategy coach Joe Cronin. The team said Jason Varitek, the game planning and run prevention...
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A.J. Ewing homered for the second straight night Friday in Double-A Binghamton’s 10-2 victory over Erie. (Watch it here.) The 21-year-old has hit safely in 13 of 16 games and is slashing a team-leading .345/.466/.552. He is the Mets’ No. 3 prospect on MLB Pipeline. Elian Peña, the Mets’ No. 8 prospect, kept hitting as well. The shortstop smacked his sixth double (see it here)...
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The New York Mets are calling up 34-year-old right-hander Carl Edwards Jr. from Triple-A Syracuse and optioning Christian Scott back to the minor leagues, Will Sammon of The Athletic reported Friday. Edwards has struck out 13, walked 11 and pitched to a 5.29 ERA and 1.47 WHIP in 17 innings at Triple-A Syracuse this year. He threw three innings apiece last year for the Los Angeles Angels and...
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Luke Weaver was one strike away from ending the Mets’ 12-game losing streak when Brooks Lee reached on an infield hit to the hole at shortstop. That brought up Byron Buxton with the tying run on first. Buxton, who hit a career-high 35 homers last season in earning his first Silver Slugger, had hit a ball 409 feet off Clay Holmes in the sixth inning to tie the game at 2-2. He also homered...
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Finally! The longest Met losing streak in 24 years is over! Mark Vientos singled in the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning and the Mets beat the Minnesota Twins 3-2 Wednesday at Citi Field to end the skid at 12 games. Luke Weaver threw a scoreless ninth, striking out Byron Buxton with a runner on first to end the game. Weaver came on in the eighth and got Luke Keaschall on a foul pop up to the...
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