After a dirty take-out slide by Chase Utley, Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada was severely injured and was carted off the field after medical personnel fitted his right leg with a compression air cast. Tejada was sent flying into the air and upended after the brutal late hit by Utley and was in a lot of pain. The game was delayed for 17 minutes and Wilmer Flores came in to replace Tejada. To add...
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I just finished reading an article on another site that said last night proved the Mets “are a good team” and “belong on this stage.” Gee, that’s weird… I thought the fact the Mets spent 3 1/2 months in first place and another 2 1/2 months within ear shot of first place was proof enough that they were a great team and not just a good one. Gee, that’s...
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So what does a young pitching stud like Jacob deGrom do after an incredible postseason debut in which he struck out a record 13 Los Angeles Dodgers while out-dueling the best pitcher on the planet, Clayton Kershaw? No he didn’t go to Disney World (that comes later), he does this: [iframe]<iframe...
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It was second baseman Daniel Murphy who silenced a sold-out crowd at Dodgers Stadium on Friday night, a solo blast in the fourth inning against a stunned Clayton Kershaw to give the Mets a 1-0 lead. But equally important was a seventh inning, bases loaded two-run single by the captain David Wright who is back in the playoffs for the first time in nine years and is relishing every moment....
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An MMO Fan Shot by Eric Heller If “The ‘15 Mets” takes on that special status we give to those magic teams, like “86” or “69”, I think you can point to a very specific, mostly overlooked moment from an excruciating July game that transformed our frustrating, dead-end year into one of the most exciting regular seasons we’ve had since….well, since a long time. I’m not talking about Wilmer’s Tears...
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