Sunday, September 12, 2021 • 8:08 P.M. Citi Field • Flushing, NY RHP Clark Schmidt vs. RHP Carlos Carrasco (1-2, 5.88) ESPN • WCBS 880 AM • WQBU 92.7 FM The Mets and Yankees play the rubber game in a nationally televised game Sunday after the Mets couldn’t capitalize Saturday and lost 8-7. The Mets started out rough Saturday thanks to a five-run second inning for the Yankees. After that fairly...
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Prior to Saturday night’s game between the St. Lucie Mets and Lakeland Flying Tigers at Clover Park in Port St. Lucie, the teams participated in a touching pregame ceremony that remembered and paid tribute to September 11, 2001. As you walked up to the gates of Clover Park, you emerged on a fire truck with an American flag in front of a beautiful September 11th memorial statue outside of the...
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I was three when the towers fell; Born into a world where I don’t know or remember a time before 9/11. My twin sister and I celebrated our third birthday just five days prior. My father was supposed to be in the city that day, just blocks from the towers at 60 Centre Street. Hundreds of times he had spent his morning on a bench across from the courthouse steps. Fortunately for my family...
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Saturday’s game between the Mets and Yankees at Citi Field was one of the more thrilling (and heartbreaking) experiences Mets fans went through all season, but the real emotion and gravity of the day–September 11, 2021–came from the pregame ceremonies remembering the lives lost 20 years previous. Before the game, both New York teams straddled the base lines...
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The stat line for Taijuan Walker in Saturday’s heartbreaking 8-7 loss to the Yankees does not tell an accurate picture of the game. In six innings, Walker allowed six hits, fives earned runs and one walk. He struck eight batters, but perhaps the roughest part of his evening was serving up three home runs to Yankee hitters. The game started off without much stress. Although Walker walked...
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AAA – Syracuse Mets (43-67) 3, Buffalo Bisons (68-42) 2 BOX SCORE Orlando Calixte – 2B: 2-4. .236/.303/.318 Tomás Nido – C: 2-3, RBI (1). .429/.429/.429 (7 AB) Travis Blankenhorn – DH: 1-3, HR (8). .243/.393/.523 The Syracuse Mets scored three runs on ten hits and five walks, meaning twelve runners were left stranded on the bases. One of the offensive leaders for the Mets...
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