Thursday, July 18, 2019 • 9:45 p.m. E.T. Oracle Park • San Francisco, CA RHP Noah Syndergaard (7-4, 4.55) vs. LHP Madison Bumgarner (5-7, 3.86) SNY • WCBS 880 AM • ESPN 1050 AM The Mets have won four games in a row! After taking the series in Miami, the Mets swept a two game set in Minnesota and now find themselves only five games out of the Wild Card. This is shocking because they have the...
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Coming into this season, Dominic Smith’s future with the Mets was in jeopardy, with his .665 OPS and -1.7 bWAR through his first two stints with the club. This season, though, has been a whole new story as Smith has excelled in a part-time role, even with Pete Alonso getting all the fanfare and the bulk of the playing time at first base. Smith has excelled coming off the bench and starting...
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When the Mets wake up this morning, despite being seven games under .500, they find themselves five games out of the Wild Card and four games in the loss column. By perusing the standings alone, you see reason to believe the Mets are actually alive, but with the team being under .500 and underperforming much of the year, there is reasonable skepticism. On the skepticism point, while the Mets are...
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When things are right, this team is fun. Of course, the same can be said for any team, in any league, in any sport. But as we know in this 2019 edition of Mets’ Hysteria, the boys have given us far more jeer than cheer. There have been lumps, bumps, and slumps. There have been balls booted, botched, and blundered. We’ve seen our off-season acquired slugger Robinson Cano (and career...
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For every dark cloud, there is a silver lining. For the 2019 New York Mets, this has been their rookie first baseman – providing a hopeful spin on an exceedingly gloomy season. With the club’s 44-51 record, they sit 13 games back of the first-place Atlanta Braves in the NL East and five games out of a Wild Card berth behind nine other teams. Times have been tough in Queens and while Mets...
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3 UP 1. Amed’s Future Looking Rosey Amed Rosario has so far had a breakout July hitting .455/.500/697. It’s more than a hot July as Rosario has been quite good for a month now with him hitting .378/.404/.561 since June 17. As noted in Tim Ryder’s MMO article, this has partially been the result of his hitting the ball harder and being more selective at the plate. Another...
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