The American League All-Stars defeated the National League All-Stars 2-1 in the 88th MLB All-Star Game. The last MLB All-Star Game to end 2-1 in extra innings was 50 years ago on this very same day. Pitching: National League Max Scherzer left it all out there in his only inning of work as he struck out both Aaron Judge and George Springer easily on fastballs. Pat Neshek was the first man out of...
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The Mets (39-47) dropped the final game of its first half of the season 6-0 on Sunday afternoon against the St. Louis Cardinals (43-45). Pitching: Steven Matz was roughed up for the first time this season. Matz lasted only 4 1/3 innings, allowing five runs on seven hits while striking out one. The damage against Matz came via the long ball as Tommy Pham and the red hot Paul DeJong each chipped...
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The Mets dropped the second game of this series with the St. Louis Cardinals 4-1 on Saturday afternoon. Pitching Zack Wheeler (3-6, 4.86 ERA) pitched well despite suffering the loss. He allowed two runs on eight hits while walking one and striking out five over 6.0 innings. Fernando Salas struggled in the seventh as he wasn’t able to get out of the inning. He allowed a run on two hits and...
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The Mets (38-43) fell to the Philadelphia Phillies (27-53) by a score of 7-1 at Citi Field on Sunday afternoon. Despite the loss, the Mets took two out of three in this series. Pitching Rafael Montero pitched well, but had one bad inning in his outing which was his undoing. A sloppy four run second inning resulted in Montero’s fifth loss on the season. In total, Montero allowed four runs on...
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The Mets (38-42) won their fourth game in a row as they defeated the Philadelphia Phillies (26-53) 7-6 at Citi Field on Saturday afternoon. Pitching Zack Wheeler struggled in his return from the disabled list. Wheeler threw 88 pitches over 3.2 innings and allowed two unearned runs on two hits while walking two and striking out four. He just didn’t have his command tonight as he was all...
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