According to Jon Heyman of Today’s Knuckleball, Mets left-hander Steven Matz was leaning toward surgery to remove the bone spur in his elbow before a recent meeting with team brass. Heyman credits Matz’s courage for pitching through pain since at least May 12, and for going out there again tonight. “It’s a gallant change-of-heart by Matz, the hometown kid who doesn’t want to...
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The Mets (40-36) were defeated by the Washington Nationals (46-32) by a score of 5-0 tonight at Nationals Park. With the loss, the Mets are now five games behind the Nationals in the standings. Pitching: Matt Harvey toed the rubber for the Mets tonight, and tossed 3.2 innings allowing one run on four hits, while walking three and striking out three. Harvey was removed after the second rain...
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The New York Mets (40-33) defeated the Atlanta Braves (25-49) by a score of 1-0 tonight at Turner Field. With the win and a Nationals loss, the Mets now find themselves just 2.0 games out of first place. Pitching: Jacob deGrom toed the rubber for the Mets tonight, and pitched another gutsy performance, but was able to keep the Braves in check for the entirety of the night. All in all, deGrom...
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Coming off an infuriating, deflating and frustrating weekend series in which the Mets were swept by the cellar dwelling Atlanta Braves and could muster up all but four runs, the citizens of Panic City were coming out of the woodwork’s left and right. The incumbent World Series champs were set to return to Citi Field for the first time since they celebrated their defeat over the Mets and...
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The Mets (37-32) defeated the Kansas City Royals (38-32) by a score of 2-1 tonight at Citi Field. Pitching: Bartolo Colon toed the rubber for the Mets this evening, but unfortunately Big Sexy only made it through one batter as Royals’ lead-off man Whit Merrifield drilled Colon with a comebacker, forcing him to leave the game. The Mets turned to Hansel Robles to pitch in a long relief...
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