A day after the Met Gala, the Mets faced Zac Gallen. New York’s hitting didn’t show much style. The Mets (23-14) dropped a 5-1 decision Tuesday to the Diamondbacks, and Gallen (3-4), who pitched seven innings of one-run ball in Phoenix, beat the Mets for the second time in less than a week. He defeated the Mets with six innings of one-run ball last Thursday at Citi Field. The...
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A pair of starters each threw six shutout innings Friday night. Lefty Felipe De La Cruz did it in his Triple-A Syracuse debut in a 6-3 victory over Scranton/Wilkes Barre and righty Nolan McLean pulled it off for Double-A Binghamton in a 4-1 win in the first game of a doubleheader against Erie. Paul Blackburn gave up two runs on four hits and struck out six over three innings in his second...
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Juan Soto hit a pair of solo homers, his first two at Citi Field as a Met, but it wasn’t enough as the Diamondbacks beat the Mets 4-2 Thursday afternoon at Citi Field. It was only the second time the Mets have lost two in a row this year. Down 3-2 in the eighth, the Mets (21-11) had a chance to tie the game with runners at second and third and one out, but back-to-back strikeouts by Mark...
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Francisco Lindor, Pete Alonso and Starling Marte homered, but the most excitement in Tuesday night’s 8-3 victory over Arizona came when David Peterson pitched a 1-2-3 fourth inning. Randal Grichuk led off by hitting a shot to third that deflected off a diving Mark Vientos’ glove to Lindor, who smoothly backhanded the ball and threw to first for the out. Up next was Lourdes Gurriel...
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SNY, the broadcast home of the Mets, is “exploring potential deals including an outright sale,” according to Lauren Thomas of The Wall Street Journal. Mets owner Steve Cohen could emerge as a buyer. The WSJ reported that the network, which is still controlled by the Mets’ former owners, the Wilpon and Katz families, has “hired bankers at Moelis to conduct a process to...
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