On October 16th, 1969 at Shea Stadium, in front of 57,367 delirious fans the New York Mets wrote the final chapter of what is still today one of the most compelling “rags-to-riches” stories in Major League Baseball history. The Lovable Losers, however improbable, however shocking, and however inexplicable, were now the champions of the world. I’m dedicating this week’s...
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Saturday, June 29, 2019 • 4:10 p.m. Citi Field • Flushing, NY RHP Julio Teheran (5-6, 3.94) vs. LHP Steven Matz (5-6, 4.85) SNY • WCBS 880 AM • ESPN 1050 AM The Mets and the month of June just don’t get along. Last night the Mets lost for a sixth consecutive time. It was a little different last night as they never held the lead in the game, but a three-run inning by Gsellman in the eighth inning...
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The New York Mets floundered again on Friday, losing their sixth straight game as the bullpen’s immense struggles continued. One bright spot, however, was that Pete Alonso continued his historic rookie reason with his 28th home run of the year, tying the record set by Mark McGwire in 1987 for home runs by a rookie before July 1. McGwire, a first-round pick out of USC, struggled in a brief...
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Jacob deGrom tossed a quality start on Friday night thought it was not enough for his team to muster a win as their loss streak moved to six games in a 6-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves. Jake may not have had his dominant stuff going but still was able to keep his team in the game. DeGrom, 31, pitched six innings against Atlanta while allowing three runs on six hits, walking two and striking out...
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An MMO Fan Shot by Andy Love of Fair and Unbalanced The Mets are really bad at honoring their history. Given that the franchise is younger than me with only two World Series wins and a handful (or two) of iconic players, it shouldn’t be that hard to celebrate our modest amount of glory. But their stadium, Citi Field, completed in 2009 and patterned after old Ebbetts Field, was more of an...
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After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the ’69 Mets, is a unique retrospective about the greatest Cinderella story in baseball history. One of those miracle men, outfielder Art Shamsky, wrote the book with author Erik Sherman. It eschewed from the purely play-by-play, game-by-game overview of the magical series of events that occurred a half-century ago — in which the Mets went from...
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