Good morning, Mets fans! To send or not to send? The Mets lost their first game of the season Sunday, 4-3, to the Pirates in 10 innings. A key play came in the bottom of the 10th when Francisco Lindor, the potential tying run, was thrown out at home on a Juan Soto double with nobody out. Carlos Mendoza told reporters after the game that he was OK with third-base coach Tim Leiper’s...
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Jonah Tong started his season with Triple-A Syracuse on Friday the same way he finished it last year: with a scoreless performance. The 22-year-old tossed four innings (one hit, two walks, four strikeouts) to help the Mets to a 3-1 road victory over Worcester on Opening Day at Polar Park. He threw 42 of 73 pitches for strikes. Ronny Mauricio stole a base and scored a run. Syracuse will play...
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Just hours before the first pitch of Opening Day, the Mets and 38-year-old outfielder Tommy Pham agreed to a minor-league deal, a source told Jorge Castillo of ESPN. The deal is pending a physical, per Will Sammon of The Athletic. Pham slashed .245/.330/.370 with 10 homers and 52 RBIs in 449 plate appearances for the Pirates last season. He has played for 10 teams, including 79 games with the...
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In what may be an unprecedented feat, Francisco Alvarez homered on March, got married the next day and was back in the lineup on the day after that (0-for-3 with three strikeouts, understandable). He is a man dedicated to his wife and baseball. He pulled this off from March 10-12. Alvarez went 9-for-25 this spring with that homer and three doubles after an offseason where he said he lost 10...
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If this was a dress rehearsal, let’s hope the first real performance is just as smooth. In exactly one week the Mets will take the field for a game that counts against Paul Skenes and the Pirates and Thursday they trotted out a lineup that Carlos Mendoza told reporters before the game was “pretty close” to what you will see on Opening Day. The batting order: Francisco Lindor,...
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