Good morning, Mets fans! Beginning with Saturday’s game against the Reds, the Mets are about to enter a three-game stretch where Jonah Tong, Brandon Sproat and Nolan McLean will start for New York. Sproat’s outing will be his major league debut, while Tong and McLean have put a jolt into a Mets team that badly needed it — McLean has had a historic four-start stretch to begin his...
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Brandon Sproat twirled a gem in his lone start of the week for the Syracuse Mets, pitching seven scoreless innings with nine strikeouts. He allowed just three hits and two walks. It was arguably Sproat’s best start of the year, directly following one of his more disappointing starts of the year. Still in Triple-A with the Mets’ other top pitching prospects in the majors, Sproat now...
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All year, Mets fans have held their collective breath when Juan Soto has come to the plate in a big moment. It had been a season-long struggle with runners in scoring position for Soto, and while he has been much better in those situations lately, he still had not delivered one of those huge, memorable moments as a Met. Until Monday. Soto’s huge game was the catalyst in what turned out to...
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Good morning, Mets fans! The Mets (73-62) defeated the Marlins (63-72) 19-9 on Friday night. With 19 runs scored, it is the most ever scored by the Mets in a home game, per Sarah Langs. The Mets knocked Eury Pérez out of the game after just two-thirds of an inning and scored 12 runs over the first two innings. Juan Soto, Brandon Nimmo, Pete Alonso, Mark Vientos and Luis Torrens (Vientos and...
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With the Dominican Summer League coming to an end this past week, top international prospect Elian Peña is officially done with his first professional season. His season started in the worst way imaginable, going 0-for-26, but he rebounded in a huge way. His final numbers were outstanding, as he finished with a slash of .292/.421/.528/.949 with nine home runs, 33 RBIs, and 21 stolen bases. The...
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