The 11-game road trip the Mets are currently embarked on pulled into Chicago for four games beginning on Thursday. The Windy City’s National League inhabitants, the Cubs, have given the Mets fits recently beating New York in 10 of their last 11 encounters. But it wasn’t the varying winds at Wrigley Field that greeted the Mets, it was the winds of change, as before the first pitch was...
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The year 1989 was memorable for many significant events. It was the year of the first free elections in Poland, it was the year the first liver transplant took place and it was the year the Berlin Wall came down. Of perhaps less historical significance but of equal importance to many Mets fans, it was the first year a minor league baseball announcer named Gary Cohen ascended to the radio...
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The New York Mets just spent two weeks in the cozy confines of the five boroughs. They played 10 games at Citi Field and two at Yankee Stadium. As befits a team treading around the .500 level, the Mets went 6-6 in the 12 games, only managing a 5-5 mark at home where they had been strong all year. They took two out of three from both the San Francisco Giants and the Colorado Rockies before...
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“Results matter. At this point, I think we’ve played pretty well. I don’t believe that we’re looking at anything as a lost season. We have talent. We have heart. And we have a group of people that believe in each other, and will pick each other up.” These the words of New York Mets General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen uttered before Saturday’s game against the St.Louis Cardinals....
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It all started on June 16, 1997 when Dave Mlicki tossed a complete game shutout as the Mets beat the Yankees 6-0. In their most recent game, on August 13, 2018, Jacob deGrom and the Mets beat the Yankees 8-5. In between these two games, the New York Mets (32-33) and the New York Yankees (40-24) have played each other 116 times. Two more games will be added to the intercity rivalry Monday and...
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