With a double in the first inning of Sunday’s contest with the Cincinnati Reds, Pete Alonso became the first rookie in MLB history to have 50 home runs and 30 doubles in a season. Alonso was then driven in by Robinson Cano for the first run of the game. Alonso, 24, has had a storied campaign thus far. He won the Home Run Derby back in July, had an RBI in the All-Star Game, has set the...
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Sunday. September 22, 2019 • 1:10 p.m. Great American Ball Park • Cincinnati, OH RHP Marcus Stroman (9-13, 3.21) vs. RHP Trevor Bauer (11-12, 4.41) PIX11 • WCBS 880 AM • ESPN 1050 AM Yesterday was not a good day for the Mets. They lost to the Reds 3-2, the Nationals and the Brewers both won dropping the Mets to 4.5 games out and their elimination number to 4. Things aren’t over yet but now the...
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Ouch. As if Mets fans weren’t hurt enough from the outcome of Saturday afternoon’s game against the Cincinnati Reds, the hits kept on coming post game as well. And not from the team the Mets were playing against. It came from the Atlanta Braves, who already clinched the NL East and who the Mets are facing in their last series of the regular season. In fact, it came from one specific...
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As Tim Healey of Newsday noted earlier this week (an excellent read), New York Mets shortstop Amed Rosario has finally brought his production levels up to the major league mean, as evidenced by his 100-on-the-nose wRC+ heading into Sunday’s series finale at Cincinnati. A lot has been said about the Mets’ former top-prospect and his at-times slow trudge to this point, but at this...
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After Saturday’s 3-2 loss to the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ballpark, the New York Mets’ deficit to capture an unlikely National League Wild Card spot increased to four games. With Milwaukee’s 10-1 shellacking of the Pirates on Saturday night, that gap widened to 4.5 games. Regardless of that disappointing outcome, the Mets’ inability to take advantage of a number...
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With the Mets hanging on for their lives in a tense Wild Card race that has all but collapsed, Zack Wheeler took the mound looking to build on his streak of four starts in a row allowing only one earned run. Wheeler’s evening began shakily, with Phil Ervin leading off with a single followed by Joey Votto doing what he does best in drawing a walk. After Eugenio Suarez reached on a Todd...
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