Chris Flexen made his first appearance of the season for the Mets last night after not pitching for 12 days, and the results, unsurprisingly, were not pretty. The 23-year old went two innings and allowed seven runs (three earned) and eight hits to go along with one strikeout in two innings of work. However, the seventh inning was the particularly ugly portion of it as the team made two errors...
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Tim Healey of Newsday and Anthony Dicomo of MLB.com report that two Mets, Todd Frazier and Yoenis Cespedes, took steps today on the road to recovery from injury. Frazier ran today and took batting practice for the first time in two weeks after going down with a strained left hamstring. Cespedes (strained right hip flexor) also took batting practice at Miller Park prior to tonight’s contest...
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Former Mets center fielder, Lenny Dykstra, was arrested early this morning in New Jersey after an incident with an Uber driver, as detailed by Laura Italiano of the New York Post. The 55-year old, according to police, was accused by the Uber driver of pulling out an unidentified weapon and threatening to kill the driver, a 47-year old from Roselle, NJ, after the driver refused a request from...
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The Mets pitching staff currently ranks in the middle of the pack (14th) in all of baseball with 4.02 ERA from their pitching staff as a whole. Obviously, that is a far cry from what the Mets had envisioned from their pitching staff, but it is certainly still respectable. Seth Lugo has been a big reason why the Mets ERA has remained that low. The 28-year old is 1-0 this season with a mere 1.91...
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Jose Bautista, after being officially added to the Mets roster only about two hours before the game, started for the team and batted fifth in place of Jay Bruce, with left-hander Caleb Smith on the mound. The 37-year old started off his Mets career with a double to left field in the second inning and later scored on a Tomas Nido RBI groundout. For the night, though, Bautista went 1-for-3 with...
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