CJ Abrams scored from first on a single by James Wood in the ninth inning as the Washington Nationals walked off the Mets with a 5-4 victory Friday at Nationals Park. Thus, the Mets’ winning streak ended at seven games. Abrams was running on a 3-2 pitch with two outs, and Wood’s single up the middle deflected off of Jeff McNeil’s foot and into shallow center. Tyrone Taylor...
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Drew Gilbert is getting healthy and producing at the right time. The 24-year-old outfield prospect missed three months last year while dealing with a right hamstring strain, and in the 56 games he did play at Triple-A Syracuse, he hit .215/.313/.393 with 10 home runs in 214 at-bats. He struggled in the Arizona Fall League as well, going 15-for-72 (.208) with four homers. Things, however, have...
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It was the perfect ending to a perfect homestand. Starling Marte singled home a head-first sliding Pete Alonso to lift the Mets to a 4-3 victory in 10 innings Wednesday at Citi Field, completing a three-game sweep of the Phillies and a 7-0 homestand. The Mets (18-7) are five games up on second-place Philadelphia, and with the Padres’ loss in Detroit, New York owns the best record in...
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Baseball is often a game of adjustments, and in his last two starts, Griffin Canning has made all the right moves. “You go in with a game plan, but you have to adjust because teams will adjust to you,” manager Carlos Mendoza said Tuesday after Canning upped his record to 3-1 with five innings of one-run ball in a 5-1 victory over the Phillies at Citi Field. When Canning beat the...
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Tylor Megill said it’s a great time to be a Met, and it’s easy to see why. The Mets have won five in a row, they lead the division by three games and are tied for the best record in baseball at 16-7. Still, after matching a career-high with 10 strikeouts in a 5-4 victory over the Phillies on Monday, a reporter asked Megill what makes this year special anyway. “We’ve got a...
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