The bullpen has had great games this year, but they’re having a bad series against the Rays. In a bout the Mets were relying on their bullpen to piece together nine innings, the team lost 12-5 Saturday afternoon in a game that bloated the bullpen’s ERA. Drew Smith opened the game with an unearned run crossing the plate in two innings, and Joey Lucchesi followed with a scoreless...
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The Mets kept winning this week with a quick two-game sweep of the Orioles, which saw a late-game comeback (and another Patrick Mazeika walk-off) on Tuesday and one of the more comfortable victories of the year on Wednesday. That’s seven wins in a row for a team that dropped to two games under .500 just a week ago after game one of last week’s doubleheader. The team is now 18-13 and...
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Good morning, Mets fans! The Dark Knight… Returns? I don’t know, something like that. Matt Harvey will make a start in Citi Field —or against the Mets at all — today for the first time since being designated for assignment by the Mets in 2018. Harvey’s fall from Mets fans’ graces occurred as he was trying to work his way back into form from thoracic outlet syndrome...
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The Mets swept a three-game series with the Arizona Diamondbacks over the weekend, notching their fifth straight win in the process. They sit at the top of the NL East again with a 16-13 record. This series featured much of what previous series did — wonderful pitching and offense that left runs to be desired. But the Mets scored four runs in three straight games, and they’ve now...
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Jacob deGrom left his Sunday start with “right side tightness,” but he has a “good” prognosis and may have avoided anything serious, according to Jon Morosi. He had an MRI after the game, and Morosi says it “did not discover a serious or long-term injury.” Sunday’s injury, which manager Luis Rojas said deGrom was feeling more in his lower back, was...
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