What a game for Chris Young at the plate on Tuesday night against his old ball club the Oakland A’s, as he launched two home runs to help lead the Mets 10-1 rout. It could have been assumed that his great game was a result of looking to save his job, but not even Young was made aware of that piece of information until Tuesday. “This is the first time I’ve heard of it. Yesterday I...
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Travis d’Arnaud returned to the Mets lineup after tearing it up in Vegas, when in 15 minor league games, he had nine multi-hit games and hit .436 with 12 runs, eight doubles, six home runs and 16 RBIs. Tuesday’s game didn’t start out the way he may have planned, or even envisioned after tearing through the Triple-A pitchers, as he struck out in his first at bat against...
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The Mets, winners of six of their last ten games, opened a two game series at Citi Field against the first place Oakland A’s, who have also won seven of their last ten games and owned the best record in baseball coming into Thursday’s game. Bartolo Colon went up against his old teammates and Scott Kazmir faced off against the Mets for the first time since September 6, 2013 at Progressive...
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As you may or may not know by now, Cuban outfielder Yasmani Tomas defected from Cuba recently. Tomas, 23, is a 6’1 230-pound outfielder with monster power potential. Before his defection he’d been playing professional baseball in Cuba for Industriales. In 97 games last season for Industriales he hit .275 with 10 homeruns and 59 RBI. This season Tomas hit .290 with six homeruns in 257...
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Even with David Wright’s sudden surge at the plate, he has slipped into second place in the latest All Star voting for the starting third baseman for the National League. Brewers Aramis Ramirez (1,279,902) leaped from fourth place to take over the lead from David Wright (1,260,895) and now leads by 19,007 votes. The remaining players that make up the top five are Giants Pablo...
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