The Mets’ offense has failed to support its starting pitchers on numerous occasions throughout the first third of the 2018 season. While particularly dominant yet criminally unprotected starts have frequently befallen Jacob deGrom in his early bid for his first Cy Young award, the woes have manifested themselves across the entire rotation. Excluding deGrom’s one-inning, 45-pitch...
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In another game that pitted the Mets against an offensive powerhouse in the Chicago Cubs, Zack Wheeler battled, but came up empty once again despite giving his team a chance (and then some) to come out victorious. The righty eclipsed 100 pitches for the third consecutive start — a feat he had not accomplished since his solid 2014 campaign — soldiering through six scoreless innings before running...
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Coming off a miserable 67-pitch outing on Saturday that saw five runs come across on a homer, six hits, and two walks, Jason Vargas answered the bell in a series finale the New York Mets seemed destined but ultimately could not afford to lose. Working five scoreless innings on 65 pitches (44 strikes), the lefty notched his second win of the year while lowering his earned run average to 8.53...
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In addition to the 40-man additions of righties Scott Copeland and Tim Peterson, the Mets will be promoting left-hander Buddy Baumann from Triple-A Las Vegas ahead of tonight’s 7:35 p.m. game against the Braves at Suntrust Park, per Andy Martino. Baumann last appeared in a rainy 12-1 blowout against the Toronto Blue Jays on May 16, allowing three earned runs on a homer while striking out...
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Late Monday night, the New York Mets managed to pull a win from the jaws of defeat to put the brakes on a four-game losing streak and six-of-seven losing slide. Just a day removed from an embarrassing afternoon in which Seth Lugo coughed up one of Jacob deGrom’s grittier starts, Asdrubal Cabrera added two home runs to his name, and despite yet another mind-boggling injury, this one to a...
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