Big Sexy, Bartolo Colon, had his roughest outing of the season Thursday night. The Mets dropped the series finale by a score of 5-0. Bartolo left the first inning trailing by a score of 4-0, and his team never had a chance with Clayton Kershaw on the mound for the Dodgers. A three-run homer by Yasmani Grandal would be the big dagger in the first, as Colon took his first loss since April 9th of...
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3 Up 1. Magnificent Matz Steven Matz was sharp yet again in the series opener on Monday night, pitching six strong innings and allowing just six hits and two runs. Matz is now 5-1 on the year, and since he surrendered seven runs in 1 2/3 innings in his first outing of the year, Matz is 5-0 with a 1.09 ERA. Only Jon Lester and Jake Arrieta are ahead of Steven in that category. Matz also did some...
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The New York Mets offense was held at bay by one of the best pitchers in baseball, Clayton Kershaw on Thursday night. Kershaw tossed a three-hit shutout while racking up 13 strikeouts in the Dodgers 5-0 defeat of the Mets. Last night marked his fifth consecutive start of 10 strikeouts while allowing one walk or less, which is a MLB and Dodgers record. Kershaw has put himself up their with Sandy...
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Here’s a quick update to this article. On Thursday, agent Scott Boras told Matt Ehalt of NorthJersey.com that the Mets have not reached out to him about a possible extension deal for Matt Harvey, who can become a free agent after the 2018 season. “I always leave it up to the teams to approach us about those things like Washington did with Strasburg,” Boras said. “We just...
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Noah Syndergaard went back to little league accounting for all of the New York Mets four runs batted in and narrowly throwing a complete game. Unfortunately, the Mets had viable opportunities to score more runs but continue searching for timely base hits. Situational Hitting Situational hitting is the adjustment or strategy in a batters approach in an at-bat with men on base to either advance...
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