Mets Minors Game Chat: Christian Scott Pitching for Syracuse

With the Mets playing another late game today, we decided to bring you a game chat of all the minor league action from Thursday. The big thing to watch is Christian Scott making his third start of the season for Triple-A Syracuse. Triple-A Scranton (9-7) vs Syracuse (8-8) 6:35 PM Scott gets the start for the Mets. He was terrific his last time out with seven strikeouts in five scoreless innings....

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A Deep Dive into the Mets’ Offensive Struggles

The Mets are currently 26th in runs scored. They are 28th in OPS, 24th in AVG, 27th in OBP, and 24th in home runs. They are 10th in strikeout rate which is the closest to a results based positive there is. Across this seven game losing streak the Mets have slashed .182/.215/.262/.477 scoring only ten runs. So what is the cause of this team wide slump? Let’s take a deeper dive. Zone Contact...

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McLean Masterful in Defeat to Dodgers

He had one future Hall of Famer (Shohei Ohtani) shaking his head and another (Freddie Freeman) swinging at pitches out of the strike zone. Nolan McLean’s last pitch was a 90 mph change-up that struck out Andy Pages, who doesn’t have the resume of Ohtani or Freeman but is leading the league in hitting at .397. “We haven’t seen McLean up close, I don’t recall, but man...

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Mitch Voit Hits Game Winning Homer for Brooklyn

Mets minor league teams combined for 26 runs scored to 22 runs allowed. All of the games were close and the offense really showed off. Outside of St. Lucie, the pitching struggled, though every level except Double-A won its game. It was also the day of the home run with eight home runs total coming from Hayden Senger, MJ Melendez, Josh Rojas, Nick Lorusso, Mitch Voit, Daiverson Gutierrez, and AJ...

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Morning Briefing: Mets Lose Seventh Straight, Drop Another Series

Good morning, Mets fans! Tuesday’s pitching matchup between Nolan McLean and Yoshinobu Yamamoto went as advertised, but it resulted in another Mets loss. The Mets (7-11) fell 2-1 to the Dodgers as the offense continued to slump. Francisco Lindor led off the game with a homer, and New York never found the runs column again. The Mets have now lost seven in a row and the first two of the...

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Mets Spoil McLean’s Gem, Drop Seventh Straight

The Mets’ skid continued Tuesday night as they dropped their seventh straight game against the Dodgers, falling 1-2. While the offense was thin on both sides, the pitching was fantastic as Nolan McLean and Yoshinobu Yamamoto duked it out in a classic pitchers’ duel. After Francisco Lindor’s leadoff home run to start the game, his first home run and RBI of the season, Yamamoto...

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