The Mets play against the Nationals today, the Marlins tomorrow, the Nationals on Sunday, the Nationals on Monday, the Marlins on Tuesday and the Marlins on Thursday. Essentially, in their last 10ish days of spring training games they are playing half of the NL East over and over and over again. This is routinely the argument made for the Mets moving their Spring Training facility to avoid this....
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Happy Pi Day! The Mets are one game below .500 in games that don’t matter as they head to the Cardinals today. Yesterday, Cano hit a pie in the sky homer that went way out and provided the only runs as the Mets beat the Astros 2-1. While Cano’s strength was notable, the real apple (pie) of my eye went to Noah Syndergaard. He made mince meat (pie) of the Astros lineup allowing 2 hits and 2 walks...
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Yesterday was a game the Mets would like to forget as they lost to the Marlins 8-1 after allowing six runs between the seventh and eighth innings. For the most part, the offense was silent yesterday except two hits by Dominic Smith raising his average to .433 and his OPS to 1.100 and a double by Rajai Davis. The lineup yesterday was a very much a spring away game despite being midway through...
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After two straight days of winning by huge margins, the Mets took a step back to reality yesterday with a 6-3 loss to the Astros. There are still bright spots to celebrate though! Nimmo had a 3 hit game and Mesoraco had a 2 hit game (he’s been struggling to get it going this spring). Vargas pitched 4.0 shutout innings allowing only 3 hits, no walks while striking out 3 dropping his Spring ERA to...
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The Mets improved to .500 yesterday, but that doesn’t matter. What does matter: for a second straight day the Mets looked to be firing on all cylinders with their offense flowing and their pitching stiffing. Yesterday d’Arnaud, Rosario and McNeil all hit homers. Travis needed it as he is deep in a roster fight right now. Rosario was coming back from an injury and showed that he could pick up...
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