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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Francisco Lindor left Wednesday’s game vs. the Twins after appearing to grimace between third and home while scoring on a double in the fourth inning. The Mets said he left the game with “left calf tightness.” Lindor went into the tunnel with a trainer after he scored and did not return to play defense in the fifth. Bo Bichette moved from third to short and Brett Baty entered...
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The top of the ninth inning Tuesday started with Devin Williams on the mound in a tie game. It ended with what was left of the 32,798 who came to Citi Field hoping to witness the end of the Mets’ longest losing streak in 22 years chanting “Austin Warren.” In between, Williams was wild. He walked the first batter he faced on four pitches. He walked his second batter on six. Kody...
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Entering Monday, the Mets are second-worst in baseball runs scored (72), have hit the fourth-fewest home runs (16), walked the fourth-fewest times (64) and have the worst OBP in baseball (.288) and second-worst SLG (.336) and second-worst OPS (.624). The pitching, of course, is a story of its own. This all comes on top of a 7-15 record, an 11-game losing streak, and a tied-for-the-worst record...
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