Tim Healey of Newsday reports that Mets’ outfielder Tim Tebow has been shut down for the rest of the 2019 season due to injury. The former NFL quarterback-turned storied professional baseball player sustained what team officials describe as a “deep cut” on his left pinky last month, and it is not expected to heal in time for the season’s conclusion. Tebow, 31 going on 32,...
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Noah Syndergaard’s career with the New York Mets began in Chicago on May 13, 2015, when he allowed three runs on six hits and four walks in five and a third innings against the Cubs. His game score in that start sat at just 46, with shaky control headlining a long-awaited debut. Fast-forward four years and eight innings to the righty’s last start ahead of the 2019 trade deadline:...
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If there’s one thing Major League Baseball has taught me in the last year and a half, it’s that nothing wins games quite like a formidable, homegrown offensive core. The Astros, Braves, Dodgers, Yankees, and perhaps even the Twins are all guaranteed a playoff spot barely halfway through a season, and it’s almost entirely attributed to what their lineups look like. The Braves...
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The New York Mets (45-53) defeated the San Francisco Giants (49-50) by a final of 11-4 this afternoon in the third game of a four-game series at Oracle Park. Offense The Mets struck first off Jeff Samardzija in the second inning, when first baseman Dominic Smith walloped a first-pitch fastball over the brick wall in right-center field. The solo bomb made for Smith’s 10th of the year...
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The New York Mets (43-51) beat the Minnesota Twins (58-35) by a final of 3-2 on Tuesday night to kick off the first half of a two-game series, stretching their current winning streak to three games – their highest mark dating back to a four-game sweep of the Nationals in late May. (Box Score) Offense The Mets came out swinging early and often against Michael Pineda, as Jeff McNeil and...
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