Good morning, Mets fans! Six-time All-Star Vida Blue passed away on Sunday at the age of 73. Blue was a second-round pick by the Kansas City A’s in 1967 and debuted with the team as a 19-year-old in 1969. In 1971, Blue won the AL Cy Young and MVP awards as a 21-year-old, turning in a magnificent 1.82 ERA with 301 strikeouts in 312 innings, and throwing 24 complete games. He went on to help...
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The New York Mets (17-18) finished off their three-game set against the Colorado Rockies Sunday afternoon. On a sunny day at Citi Field in Flushing, NY the Mets got woeful pitching and allowed 13 runs in a 13-6 series finale loss. The Mets drop to under .500 for the first time since the beginning of the season. New York’s first inning pitching woes continued. Randal Grichuk launched a...
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Sunday, May 7, 2023 • 1:40 PM Citi Field • Flushing, New York RHP Ryan Feltner (2-2, 4.45) vs. LHP Joey Lucchesi (1-0, 3.86) SNY The good news: the New York Mets scored double the amount of runs yesterday than Friday night. The bad news: that resulted in only two runs and a 5-2 loss against the Colorado Rockies. Now, the Mets have a rubber game Sunday matchup with the Rockies. If the Mets win,...
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The New York Mets have failed to get length out of their starters in nearly every game over the last couple weeks. Saturday’s 5-2 loss against Colorado Rockies was certainly no different. Tylor Megill was on the bump, preparing to make his seventh start of the young season. Before he could even get settled into the game, the Rockies were ahead 1-0. Charlie Blackmon and Kris Bryant walked...
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Triple-A Game 1 – Lehigh Valley IronPigs (15-15) 5, Syracuse Mets (15-16) 1 BOX SCORE 1B DJ Stewart: 1-for-3, R, HR (6), RBI (8) (.979 OPS) RF Danny Mendick: 1-for-3 (.754 OPS) C Michael Perez: 2-for-2, BB (.559 OPS) 3B Mark Vientos: 0-for-3 (1.075 OPS) SS Ronny Mauricio: 0-for-3 (.965 OPS) While the Mets only struck out once as a team, they managed only four hits and one extra-base hit...
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No matter how many baseball games you watch, each holds the chance of witnessing something you’ve never seen before. A player’s first career homer. A pitcher hitting a homer. Both are rare — the latter now extremely rare. Countless pitchers have a home run on their résumé. But there’s one that stands alone. Bartolo Colón was a terrible hitting pitcher even by hitting pitcher...
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