Author: Rob Piersall

Mike Trout, Cody Bellinger Headline All-Star Game Starters

On Thursday, the MLB All-Star Game starters were announced. After several weeks of voting, the polls closed Thursday afternoon, and at 7 p.m. (EST), the results were announced. Here are the starters at each position: National League Willson Contreras, C, Chicago Cubs Freddie Freeman, 1B, Atlanta Braves Ketel Marte, 2B, Arizona Diamondbacks Javier Baez, SS, Chicago Cubs Nolan Arenado, 3B,...

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All Hell Breaks Loose In Mets’ Clubhouse After Gut-Punch Loss

Tensions erupted in the Mets’ clubhouse Sunday evening in Chicago, as left-handed pitcher Jason Vargas had to be restrained from coming after a member of the team beat, while manager Mickey Callaway cursed out the reporter for being “an antagonist.” According to other members of the beat including Mike Puma of the New York Post and Deesha Thosar of the Daily News, Callaway told...

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Now Until All-Star Break Could Define Mets’ Season

Will the Mets prove to be contenders, or slip further into oblivion as pretenders? Well, over the next few weeks we will find out. New York is hooked up to life support and is hanging by a thread. With their win on Saturday, the Mets currently sit 6.5 games out of first place and five games out of the second wild card spot. After a rough west coast road trip, the team has been able to bounce...

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What Do Mets Do If Syndergaard Misses Extended Time?

Mets’ starting pitcher Noah Syndergaard left the contest against the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday with what the team is calling a right hamstring strain. Syndergaard, 26, went six plus innings in the team’s 8-7 win, and surrendered five runs (four earned) on six hits while he walked two and struck out five. The Texas native took the mound in the seventh with 98 pitches under his...

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J.D. Davis, FDNY Team Up to Teach Children Fire Safety

Fires claimed the lives of 88 people in New York City in 2018, the highest in a calendar year in more than a decade, according to FDNY commissioner Daniel Nigro earlier this year. To help combat the issue, the FDNY and The Hartford, an investment and insurance company, teamed up with Mets’ infielder J.D. Davis to teach children about fire safety at P.S. 019 Marino Jeantet school in Corona,...

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