The one thing people always knew about Pete Alonso was how hard he hit the ball. He nearly broke Statcast in the futures game last year and had some bullets in the Arizona Fall League. His batted ball profile is elite in his small but impressive Major League career. Alonso, 24, impressed again on Tuesday night against the Minnesota Twins in which he went 2-for-5 with two home runs and three RBI....
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The Mets lost a rainy affair at Citi Field on Tuesday night by a score of 11-4 to the Twins. (Box Score) Pitching Jacob deGrom made his third start of the season tonight. The first inning looked like a typical deGrom start. He struck out Max Kepler fairly easily and got a few fly ball outs sandwiched by a bunt hit. The second inning was much shakier for deGrom. Mitch Garver led off the inning...
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It wasn’t the prettiest of starts on Thursday in the Mets Home Opener against the Nationals, but Noah Syndergaard still managed to pitch well. His command was far from where it usually is and a bad game from the umpire did not help the cause. Case and point: Syndergaard had a no-hitter through five and more importantly, got a lot of weak contact (Victor Robles excluded). His average exit...
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When one has a night where you strike out 14 batters in seven innings and post a -.66 FIP, you must have done something right. Jacob deGrom got a lot of swings and misses and mixed his pitches to near perfection in Wednesday’s 6-4 win against the Miami Marlins. Here was how many changeups he threw in the first six innings: 8. In the seventh inning, he threw seven changeups and got seven...
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The Mets narrowly beat the Marlins on Tuesday night by a score of 6-5 at Marlins Park. (Box Score) Pitching Jason Vargas pitched for the Mets and had a rough first inning. He gave up a double to Curtis Granderson and a double to Brian Anderson. He managed to work out of further damage. The second inning also featured a couple of base runners, but he got out of that jam too by getting Granderson...
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