Tuesday, September 3, 2019 • 7:05 p.m. Nationals Park • Washington D.C. RHP Jacob deGrom (8-8, 2.66) vs. Max Scherzer (9-5, 2.46) SNY • WCBS 880 AM • ESPN 1050 AM The Mets have a difficult road to the playoffs but took the right step yesterday with a win in the series opener. Yesterday the Mets offense clicked and the Mets relatively quickly built up a 7-0 lead before some 9th inning shenanigans...
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Edwin Diaz was supposed to be the best reliever in baseball. When Brodie Van Wagenen made the now-infamous trade in December for Díaz and Robinson Canó, giving up prospects in the process, many marketed it as a trade exclusively for Díaz, a young, cost-controlled superstar who took the league by storm in 2018 with a season bordering on the absurd. He wasn’t just the best reliever in...
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As the New York Mets navigated their way to a 17-11 record in August, manager Mickey Callaway’s starting rotation played a key role. Their cumulative 3.2 fWAR and 3.64 ERA for the month both ranked among the 10 best units in baseball. One guy who finally enjoyed a good month — at least when looking at his ERA — was Zack Wheeler. The impending free agent has been an important...
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The Brooklyn Cyclones came into Labor Day weekend in a very rough spot, needing to win two-out-of-three games minimum to make the postseason. And I mean bare minimum, as the assumption would be in that scenario that the Aberdeen IronBirds would lose all three of their games against the Hudson Valley Renegades. Well, it turned out, Brooklyn would win their first two games while the IronBirds and...
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For the first time over the course of his red-hot second half, New York Mets outfielder J.D. Davis came into Monday’s Labor Day matchup with the Washington Nationals mired in a bit of a funk. From July 12 through August 21 (119 plate appearances), the 26-year-old hit .371/.429/.610 with six homers, seven doubles, a .429 wOBA, and 171 wRC+. His .434 batting average on balls in play over...
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“He was real good, I mean real good.” Those the words of Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez in his post-game press conference referring to Noah Syndergaard, the New York Mets pitcher who shut his team down for seven innings in a Mets 7-3 victory. And shut them down he did. After allowing a single to the pesky Trea Turner to leadoff the game, Syndergaard (10-7) retired the...
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