Jose Reyes swiped career base No. 500 on Monday night in San Diego, becoming only the 39th player in MLB history to accomplish the feat. It was just another footnote in Reyes’ big league career. The 34-year-old also collected his 2,000th hit earlier this season. After getting off to a dreadful start, the 15-year veteran is hitting .346/.354/.628 with three home runs and 12 RBI over his...
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Jacob deGrom carved through the San Diego Padres lineup in the Mets 5-3 victory on Monday en route to his eighth consecutive win. The 29-year-old allowed just two runs in the outing, a home run to Hunter Renfroe in the eighth inning and an RBI double from Carlos Asuaje in the eighth. Despite a shaky ninth inning where Addison Reed nearly allowed a walk-off three-run home run to Jabari Blash, the...
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Wilmer Flores is no stranger to the walk-off home run. It was nearly two years ago when Flores gave the Mets a dramatic win against the Washington Nationals, just days after shedding tears because he thought he was being traded. On Saturday, his long ball capped off a 6-5 comeback victory that extended the Mets winning streak to four games. “As a hitter, you don’t want to try and do too much,...
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With the Dodgers poised to make a deep playoff run, the team is looking to shore up their bullpen and create a bridge to Kenley Jansen. According to Buster Olney of ESPN on Twitter, the Dodgers are exploring a potential deal for Mets reliever Addison Reed. Reed, 28, has widely been considered the most probable Met to be dealt at this year’s trade deadline and rightfully so. The...
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Trevor asks… Are we to believe that the plan for 2018 is to go with the same five starting pitchers of Syndergaard, deGrom, Matz, Harvey and Wheeler? The same rotation that saw four of them spend significant time on the DL which ended up wiping out our season? Shouldn’t we go out and sign or trade for a reliable workhorse type pitcher who can give us 35 starts? If we had a pitcher...
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