It was MLB’s best home team vs. its worst road team. The team with the best earned run average (2.87) against the club with the worst (5.55). The mismatch on paper, however, played out a lot closer on the field. The Mets (35-22) held on to beat the Colorado Rockies 4-2 on Friday night at Citi Field for their fifth win in six games. The Rockies dropped to a league-worst 9-48 and an...
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Ronny Mauricio is 14-for-25 in seven games at Triple-A Syracuse. He hit his third homer Thursday to boost his slash line to a comical .560/.586/.960/1.546. The question doesn’t seem to be if he will be called up to the major leagues, but when? And, where will he play? “He’s a player who has options,” president of baseball operations David Stearns said at a news conference...
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Carlos Mendoza went to a lot of trouble to put Jared Young in the lineup at designated hitter Tuesday. It paid off. With Young penciled in at DH, Mendoza put Jeff McNeil in center, Brett Baty at second and Mark Vientos at third. A better defense would have McNeil at second, Baty at third, Vientos at DH and Tyrone Taylor in the outfield. Mendoza was asked about his decision to start Young, who...
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The debut of Juan Soto. The return of Kodai Senga. A month of Pete Alonso going nuclear. It was an eventful first third of the season for the Mets that concluded Monday with their fifth walk-off win, on a Francisco Lindor sacrifice fly to beat the White Sox, 2-1. It was fitting that it was a win at home, where the Mets are 20-6, that the pitching was superb and that the Mets went 1-for-7 with...
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High-A Brooklyn Cyclones infielder Jesus Baez went 6-for-8 with a two-run homer and a three-run homer, a double, and seven RBIs combined in a doubleheader sweep Friday of Jersey Shore. Baseball America ranked the 20-year-old from the Dominican Republic 92nd on its prospect list before the season. In Binghamton, Jonah Tong gave up two runs in four innings and struck out six Flying Squirrels. The...
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