Squaring off on Sunday Night Baseball, Bartolo Colon and Justin Verlander were engaged in the best pitcher’s duel of the year so far. Verlander allowed just one run on a solo shot from Robinson Chirinos in the third inning. That would prove to be the only hit Verlander would allow through eight innings. He struck out 11 batters, but 44-year-old Colon was better. Colon took a perfect game...
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Brandon Nimmo has been nothing short of a true professional this season. Whether he’s starting, coming in off the bench, or even being demoted to Triple-A, he just wants what’s best for the team. Seeing him smile and never complain about his role makes it that much sweeter when he does well. On Sunday’s 3-2 walk-off win against the Milwaukee Brewers, Nimmo played a big role,...
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The Mets hot start, a new manager, and a division title chase: these are just a few things SNY analyst and former pitcher Ron Darling recently talked about with Steve Serby of the New York Post. But arguably the most interesting thing Darling told Serby? He thinks the Mets can win the division and thinks they have a similar mindset to the 1986 championship team. “They’ve got the right...
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Mets starter Matt Harvey was touched up for four runs in five innings Saturday night, which put the team in an early hole and led to their ultimate demise. The game could have been over way earlier, however, had right-hander Paul Sewald not posted three dominant scoreless frames out of the bullpen in relief of Harvey that kept New York in the game. “That was huge. That saved us,” Mets manager...
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To see the last time Matt Harvey threw more than five innings in a start, you’d have to go back nearly a calendar year to May 28, 2017 versus the Pittsburgh Pirates. That trend of five innings or less continued on Saturday night at Citi Field, where the artist formerly known as the Dark Knight again struggled to find his Batman attire and surrendered four runs on eight hits. The decisive...
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