With the Major League Baseball regular season drawing to a close Sunday, Mets first baseman Pete Alonso won the home run title with 53 long balls. It is the first time a Met has the led the majors in home runs for a season, and it is the first time in MLB history that a rookie led all of baseball with home runs. Alonso, 24, shattered the rookie record for home runs on Saturday with his 53rd long...
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Sunday, September 29, 2019 • 3:10 p.m. Citi Field • Flushing, NY RHP Mike Soroka (13-4, 2.60) vs. RHP Noah Syndergaard (10-8, 4.30) SNY • WCBS 880 AM • ESPN 1050 AM The 2019 season is finally over. A season marred with trades that didn’t pan out, a bullpen that under performed and an offense that went missing for a better part of the month. A season that saw a team go from 11 games under .500 to...
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According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, Cubs manager Joe Maddon will not return for 2020. Earlier today, Bob Nightengale of USA Today on Twitter, said Maddon has three potential landing spots this winter: with the Mets, Phillies or Padres. Nightengale adds that Maddon wants to manage for three to five more years. Maddon, 65, had a brutal year with the Cubs, who earlier this month had a 75 percent...
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One year ago today, I sat wondering to myself if there would ever be a Mets player to impact me like David Wright did. It was Wright’s last game, and as I sat there with my mom in right field, we shared smiles, laughs, welled up eyes and many tears in what was an emotional rollercoaster of a day. The scoreboard showed Wright many times. As he took batting practice, talked to teammates in...
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It’s not the way David Wright wanted to end things, but if this is how it had to be done, it couldn’t have gone more perfectly. It was a bright, sunny day in New York City. Not too hot, and not too cold. Just right, and exactly how you would draw up an ideal late September day. There was energy and emotion in Citi Field that has only been present there a handful of times. If it...
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One night after Pete Alonso homered to tie Aaron Judge for the rookie season home run record, Alonso snapped the tie by blasting his 53rd homer of the season in the Mets 3-0 victory over the Braves. Pete Alonso now stands alone as MLB’s single season home run leader among rookies. What an amazing accomplishment by our Polar Bear and what a thrill to watch it! Alonso has also put himself in...
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