Stat Line: 7 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 10 SO, 4 BB Jacob deGrom threw the sharpest moving pitches of his season last night against the Colorado Rockies. With a quick, compact pitching motion, deGrom used incredible hand speed attacking the Rockies hitters resulting in 10 strikeouts. The most pivotal strikeout came in the bottom of the fifth inning against Charlie Blackmon. After the Mets took the lead...
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Stat Line: 8 IP, 0 R, 4 H, 4 SO, 0 BB Matt Harvey amassed 19 strikeouts to zero walks, allowing only one run in 22.2 innings over his last three starts. Currently, Harvey owns a 15 inning scoreless streak. Harvey allowed only four hits against the Colorado Rockies, three of which were infield singles. The Dark Knight is back. Harvey’s found command in his fastball which was inconsistent...
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On Monday night the Mets will welcome the Colorado Rockies into Citi Field as they begin a four game set that will lead them into this weekend’s showdown against the Wild Card leading Pittsburgh Pirates. The Mets will begin play 1 1/2 games ahead of the Nationals for the NL East lead. Here are the probable starters: Mon: LHP Jon Niese (6-9, 3.51) vs. RHP Jon Gray (0-0, 4.50), 7:10 PM Tue: RHP...
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The Mets are hot. There’s no denying that. But that is precisely why it’s time to play the Devil’s advocate; this whole “score 8 runs per game, make Terry look like a genius, do no wrong” type of play isn’t likely to show up in every one of the 53 games left in the regular season. And even if it did and the Mets won the division by 18 games or so, what fun...
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On January 31, when I first discovered that I had been admitted to Davidson College, I was obviously elated that I was given the opportunity to attend my first choice school. However, it only took an hour or so for the reality to hit me, that I was actually going to uproot myself from New York City, where I’ve lived all my life, Queens born and raised, and move to small town North Carolina...
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