At a point in the season where the New York Mets need every victory they can manage to secure, a 6-and-1 seven-game home stand with more than half of their regulars on the shelf is quite the well-timed accomplishment. With Michael Conforto (who returned on Sunday), Jeff McNeil, Robinson Cano, and Brandon Nimmo all out of the lineup, the Mets swept the scuffling Nats and took two of three from...
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3 UP 1. Tigers Catch a Beating For most of the season, the discussion has been about how Wilson Ramos was the latest in a long line of Mets free agent busts. The one time slugger had become a ground ball machine. That is until recently. In this series, Ramos was 6-for-12 with three homers and six RBI. His three homers in the series were more than the amount of homers he hit over his first 45...
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The 2019 MLB regular season is still pretty young. It’s also Memorial Day, though, which is one of those arbitrary checkpoints when it comes to looking at player and team stats. With just about two months of games in the books, the whole “small sample size” argument continues to lose significance. For the New York Mets, their greatest perceived strength heading into this season...
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A week after it appeared the Mets and Mickey Callaway were about to spiral out of control, they are now back to .500. With the help of Carlos Gomez, Rajai Davis, Adeiny Hechavarria and friends the club finished off a 6-1 homestand. Now things get interesting as they head west for a 7-game stretch between against the Dodgers and D-Backs. Can the Mets use this adversity as a jump-start to their...
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Zack Wheeler got the Mets their first rubber match win of the season in a 4-3 final against the Tigers Sunday afternoon. The right-hander gave up a first inning home run and then a few hits in the third to give the Tigers a 3-0 lead early. The team bounced back in the fourth, however, scoring four runs to give Wheeler a lead and allow him to settle in. Wheeler’s overall line for the day...
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Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (26-19) 11, Syracuse (24-24) 6 Box Score Gregor Blanco CF: 2-for-4, 2 R, HR, RBI, K, .246/.322/.403 Rene Rivera C: 2-for-4, R, 2 RBI, K, .272/.349/.402 Travis Taijeron 1B: 1-for-3, R, HR, 3 RBI, BB, K, .214/.331/.556 The Mets offense had a big five run third inning, which featured a two-run single by Rivera and three-run home run by Taijeron. Beyond that, however, the...
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