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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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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