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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Friday was good for most Mets and their minor league clubs. Top pitching prospect Brandon Sproat tossed six shutout innings to lead Syracuse to a 3-0 victory over Buffalo Friday in Game 1 of a doubleheader. Zach Thornton fired six shutout innings of one-hit ball for Brooklyn in a 5-0 win over Aberdeen. The feel-good comeback story of Matt Allan hit a bump in the road. He gave up his first runs...
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Francisco Lindor brought some of his playoff magic to April, launching a walk-off home run into the upper deck to give the Mets a 5-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals Friday night that sent Citi Field into a frenzy. It was the first walk-off homer as a Met for Lindor and the 250th home run of his career. He was doused with water by his teammates as he crossed the plate. The Cardinals tied...
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Juan Soto entered Monday hitting .250 (13-for-52) in his first 15 games as a Met. He’d gone 13 games without a home run and five without an RBI. He looked cold sporting a hoodie in the Minnesota outfield. By Soto standards, this could qualify as a slump, though a bit of research by MMO’s Patrick Glynn shows that his 11-game stretch entering Monday with an OPS of .683 wouldn’t...
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