Good morning, Mets fans! The bats were cold in the desert. Eduardo Rodriguez pitched a career-high 8 1/3 innings and held the Mets hitless until Carson Benge singled with one out in the sixth as Arizona beat the Mets 5-1 Sunday to take two out of three. New York (15-25) scored five runs on 12 hits in the series and finished their road trip at 5-4. “We needed to be better,” Carlos...
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Clay Holmes likely would not have been the guy many would have thought would be leading the National League in ERA on May 10. Of Mets pitchers, the first guess would have been Freddy Peralta (3.12 ERA) and then maybe Nolan McLean (2.78), but after his eighth consecutive start of allowing two earned runs or fewer Holmes’ ERA leads the NL at 1.86. He’s been so good that giving up two...
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Marcus Semien singled on the first pitch he saw in the second inning. He doubled on Michael Lorenzen’s second offering to him in the fourth. He singled on the first pitch in the sixth. In the ninth, with the Mets up 8-4, he drove a 3-1 pitch 395 feet to left (exit velocity 100.8 mph) for a two-run homer. It all added up to the first four-hit game for a Met this year. He scored three runs,...
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The Mets have put themselves in quite the hole, but they could be in the early stages of digging their way out. Juan Soto set the tone with a leadoff homer, Marcus Semien homered and had four hits, and Freddy Peralta threw five scoreless innings in a 10-5 victory over the Rockies Wednesday at Coors Field. New York (14-22) has won three in a row. Soto’s fourth homer of the season on the...
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The first big move the Mets made in an eventful offseason was dealing Brandon Nimmo to the Rangers for Marcus Semien. He was back in New York Tuesday to play the Yankees and talked with reporters. On the Trade “I believe it was probably just a baseball decision,” he told Michelle Margaux on SNY. “Like I said last year and even in these interviews in the spring, I didn’t...
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