3 Up Flashes of Cy Porcello Mets veteran right-hander Rick Porcello bounced back from two bad starts to begin his career in Flushing, with seven innings of one-run ball. The big key was no walks (six in first two starts) and 10 ground ball outs. The former Cy Young winner allowed only five hits and struck out four. He also retired the last 10 batters he faced and needed only 81 pitches to get 21...
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Jeff McNeil was a late scratch from the Mets lineup on Monday night in Atlanta. The Mets say that McNeil is experience lower back tightness. J.D. Davis – wasn’t in the original lineup because he came to the park sick to his stomach – replaced McNeil in the lineup, in the designated hitter spot with Dominic Smith moving from DH to left field. Mets shortstop Amed Rosario left the...
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The Friday night game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers has been postponed according to Jon Heyman of MLB Network. The postponement comes following multiple positive COVID-19 tests from the Cardinals. Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports that the Cardinals are self-isolating at their hotel in Milwaukee. The list of teams that currently have games postponed now grows to...
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Even before the regular season started, you could hear it in Mets’ manager Luis Rojas voice that the team couldn’t afford to stay with Edwin Diaz as the closer if he continued his struggles. Well, the struggles continued big time – and could’ve been much worse if not for a bailout from Paul Sewald – on Thursday night when Diaz came into the game with the Mets...
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The New York Mets announced on Thursday that they’ve made a series of roster moves including placing Eduardo Nunez on the injured list, selecting the contract of infielder Brian Dozier, recalling lefty reliever Daniel Zamora, and designating right-handed reliever Hunter Strickland for assignment. Nunez has a knee contusion after stepping awkwardly on first base recently. The veteran...
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