After a successful 5-2 home stand against the Brewers and Marlins, the Mets (45-24) head to Houston to play a short series (two games) against the Astros (41-25). It will be a battle of two first-place teams, as the Astros lead the AL West with the second-best record in the American League, while the Mets are in first in the NL East with the best record in the National League. The Mets have been...
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As of June 21, the New York Mets currently sit atop Major League Baseball in both batting average (.261) and on base percentage (.334), which has helped them to maintain a 5.5 game lead in the NL East despite a currently banged-up pitching staff. Throughout the first few months of the 2022 campaign, the Mets hitters have taken a consistent approach at the plate. Part of this new successful...
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The 45-win Mets are likely to be well-represented in the All-Star game next month in Los Angeles. On Tuesday morning, Major League Baseball released the first ballot returns from its fan voting process. While most of the All-Stars–pitchers and reserve players–will ultimately be voted in by a combination of the players and the Commissioner’s Office, the current ballot results...
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3 UP Walker This Way In the history of the Mets, you are going to be hard-pressed to find a two-year deal that has worked out as well as Taijuan Walker’s has. Last year, he was an All-Star. This year, it appears he is going to be better than he was last season, and he’s doing it at a time when Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer are on the IL. His start against the Marlins was the latest...
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David Peterson fought through multiple innings of having to battle in and out of trouble his best outing since late May Monday afternoon. In his prior four outings prior, Peterson struggled to go deep into games and did not throw more than 4 2/3 innings in any of the four starts. His best outing of the season was against San Francisco on May 23, when he made it six innings and gave up two runs....
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Francisco Álvarez and Mark Vientos combined to hit five home runs this week as the entire Mets organization experienced a power surge. Let’s look at how the rest of the minor-league system did in a homer-heavy week. Triple-A Syracuse The Mets took four of six from the Norfolk Tides as they improve to 25-40 on the year. Daniel Palka led Syracuse with 11 hits in the series, with four doubles...
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