Earl Weaver, the late Baltimore Orioles legendary manager, is credited with saying momentum is tomorrow’s starting pitcher. Coming off the Francisco Alvarez walk-off home run, the Mets had momentum entering Tuesday night. A poor start from Jose Quintana proved Weaver right again. Quintana was rocked for seven earned runs in five innings—he gave up a pair of home runs, a triple and two...
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Sitting two games back of the final Wild Card spot entering Friday, the Mets’ three-game series at Citi Field with the last-place Miami Marlins looked like the calm before the storm. After this weekend, New York gets three more at home with the Baltimore Orioles before heading west to play seven games against two of the hottest teams in baseball: the San Diego Padres and Arizona...
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Kodai Senga is hopefully a week to ten days away from doing “upright throwing,” president of baseball operations David Stearns told reporters Friday at a news conference, so he can’t yet offer a guess on the ace’s chances of pitching in October should the Mets make the playoffs. “He’s still going through sort of the initial stages of the recovery,”...
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Jose Quintana and the bullpen combined to blow a five-run lead as the Mets fell 7-6 to the Oakland A’s in a rubber game Thursday at Citi Field. New York (62-59) has lost five of their last six. Quintana wormed out of bases-loaded jams in the first and third innings but couldn’t do it in the fourth. With the bases juiced, JJ Bleday blasted his 15th homer of the season, bringing...
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In what would be a drastic change aimed at creating more action, fewer strikeouts, cutting back on injuries, and perhaps returning a bit of prestige to starting pitchers, MLB is considering requiring starters to go at least six innings, according to an ESPN report Thursday. The rule is under discussion and like other major changes, such as the pitch clock, would first be tested in the minor...
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