Good morning, Mets Fans!! Today, Noah Syndergaard(6-4, 4.68 ERA) will look to turn his inconsistent season around as he’ll take on rookie Zac Gallen (0-1, 4.50 ERA). The game can be viewed on WPIX and 880 WCBS at 6:10 p.m. The Mets kicked off the second half of the season by losing to the last-place Marlins. Todd Frazier contributed his 12th home run of the season, but little else went...
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Sports can sometimes seem scripted, as fairy tale narratives unfold before our eyes in ways that we could never have imagined. This was the case for the Los Angeles Angels tonight, in their first home game played since losing starting pitcher Tyler Skaggs two weeks ago. Before the game began, Skaggs’ mother, Debbi, foreshadowed things to come when she took the mound to threw out the...
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The New York Mets (40-51) were defeated by the Miami Marlins (34-55) on Friday night by the score of 8-4 in Miami. Pitching Jason Vargas struggled against the Fish tonight at Marlins Park, he only pitched five innings, allowed six earned runs, and struck out one batter. Robert Gsellman came into relieve for Vargas during the bottom of the sixth inning, he gave up a home run to third-baseman...
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As per the International League transactions page, New York Mets outfielder Matt Kemp and right-hander Arquimedes Caminero have both been released from their contracts with the Triple-A Syracuse Mets. Kemp, 34, signed a minor-league deal with the Mets on May 24. Over 36 plate appearances with Syracuse, the 14-year MLB veteran slashed .235/.278/.324 with a home run, three RBIs, and seven...
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With the team sitting ten games below .500 and 13-and-a-half games back of Atlanta in the National League East, it’s easy to blame the folks in charge for a tough season. In a situation like what the New York Mets are facing — taking into account precisely how they got here — there’s really only one place to point the finger. Handed a solid core of positional cogs in...
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New York Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen spoke to the team’s media corps ahead of the Mets’ second-half opener versus the Marlins in South Florida. The first-year GM has been made unavailable to the press in recent weeks, with the only buzz coming out of the front office being Van Wagenen’s well-publicized chair-throwing incident last week. Heading into the home...
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