Monday, July 19, 2021 • 7:10 P.M. Great American Ball Park • Cincinnati, OH RHP Jerad Eickhoff (0-1, 4.97) vs. RHP Vladimir Gutierrez (4-3, 4.29) SNY • WCBS 880 AM • WFAN 92.7 FM The Mets head to Ohio looking for two wins in a row! The Pirates built a 6-0 lead in the first inning on Sunday. The inning was bizarre with a fair dribbler being swiped off the line by Walker, allowing three runs to...
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Many Mets fans lamented the All-Star break because it created a lull in the baseball action. In New York’s most recent series in Pittsburgh, there was plenty of action both on and off the field. Off the field, Francisco Lindor landed on the injured list with a grade two oblique strain, and Jacob deGrom joined Lindor on the injured list with forearm discomfort. These are two huge blows for...
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A week ago, I called the Mets’ loss in their last game before the All-Star break – a game they lead 5-0 after the first inning – the worst loss of the season. And for six whole days, it was. Saturday, in classic Met fashion – and against the same Pirate team – they topped that, losing 9-7 on Jacob Stallings’ walk-off grand slam. The Mets led that game 6-0 in the eighth inning. Until that point...
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Just when the New York Mets make us want to give up, they find a way to pull us back in. OK, that sounds a little dramatic, but let’s be honest, #MetsTwitter hasn’t been a fun place to hang out during the first two games of New York’s series against the Pittsburgh Pirates. And the results on the field were only part of the story. Let’s rewind back to the final game prior...
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The Mets played a stretch of seven games against one of the worst teams in baseball — the Pirates — with the All-Star break spliced between them. They only won three games, including just one of three in the latest series in Pittsburgh. It could’ve been much better had they not blown a couple of big leads, but it also could’ve been much worse had they not come back from a...
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Taijuan Walker was looking to start strong with his first outing of the second half after his appearance in the 2021 MLB All-Star game. However, his outing was far from what he would’ve hoped. He lasted just 1/3 of an inning on Sunday, not making it out of a controversial first-inning debacle between the Mets and Pirates. Walker got Adam Frazier to ground out to open the matinee between...
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