Colorado fans did not need the weed they can legally buy to get a buzz this weekend because the Rockies gave them a natural high in the form of a three game sweep over the New York Mets. On an afternoon when the Mets could have picked up some precious ground, Ryan Raburn delivered a painful pinch-hit two run homer to ruin Jacob deGrom’s glorious day. In that fateful 7th inning, deGrom’s 12-pitch...
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After a strong outing against the Padres, the middle innings came back to haunt Matt Harvey again, making for a miserable 5-2 loss for the Mets at Colorado’s cavernous Coors Field. The Mets bats that were muted by Clayton Kershaw on Thursday, barely made a peep off of Rockies rookie right-hander, Jon Gray, who unlike Harvey, found good fortune on Friday the 13th. In his 14th career start, Gray...
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USA Today Sports/Photo by Anthony Gruppuso With the scent of Sunday’s winning streak coming to an end still fresh in the Citi Field air, Mets elder statesman Bartolo Colon reached into his bag of tricks to pull off a milestone on Monday. Pitching 8 innings of shutout ball, Colon captured his 220th career victory surpassing fellow countryman Pedro Martinez to garner sole possession of second...
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USA Today Sports/Noah K. Murray A day after the merry Mets blasted the Giants for a baker’s dozen, they held on for a 6-5 win, their eighth in a row, boasting the longest streak in the major leagues this season. On Saturday, young Michael Conforto continued where he left off going 3-for-4 with a double, a home run, and three ribbies, raising the roof on his batting average to .365. He matched a...
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USA Today Sports/ Photo by Anthony Gruppuso Mets manager Terry Collins made some crafty moves in the home half of the seventh by presumably using Lucas Duda as a decoy with his team down three zip. Reds pitcher Brandon Finnegan overstayed his welcome after stymieing New York for six scoreless innings. Juan Lagares reached first on a one out walk, then Kevin Plawecki’s sharp single to right...
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