Author: Elliot Teichman

The Mets and Reds open up the last series of the 2011 season tonight as the Mets look to end the season on a strong note. Yesterday, the Mets dropped the series finale to the Phillies, after taking the two previous games. Tonight Schwinden gets the start for the Mets as he takes on Bailey of the Reds. Schwinden is 0-2 this season in three major league career starts where he has logged 16.0...

The Mets and Phillies start a series today in Queens. The Mets are on a high after one of the more improbable comebacks of the year as the Mets scored 6 runs in the top of the ninth against a team that needed to win. So for first time in a while the Mets got to play spoiler against someone else. Anyway, tonight Dickey will get the start as he goes against Hamels. Dickey is 8-13 on the season...

The Mets try to avoid the four game sweep by the Nationals today as they play the early afternoon game. In today’s game, the Mets will send out Chris Schwinden for his second career start. In his first start of the season, he allowed 8 hits and 8 earned runs in 5.0 innings of work against the Braves. He has never faced anyone in the Nationals organization at the major league level. The...

Today is one of those days where the game doesn’t mean that much. Today is one of those days where we can take a step back from baseball and be thankful that we live in a world where we can have baseball, where can have the leisure time to enjoy a sport and the freedom to live our lives the way we do. The Mets and the Cubs will close out the series tonight as the Mets try to look beyond...

Here is today’s starting lineup for the Mets: 1. Jose Reyes SS 2. Ruben Tejada 2B 3. Lucas Duda RF 4. David Wright 3B 5. Angel Pagan CF 6. Jason Bay LF 7. Nick Evans 1B 8. Mike Nickeas C 9. Chris Capuano LHP The Mets and Cubs play game two this afternoon. Last night, the Mets won thanks to Justin Turner who continues his curious season in terms of batting average (.215 no runners on, .339...