The New York Mets (2-1) were defeated by the Washington Nationals (1-2) by a score of 6-5 Sunday at Nationals Park in Washington. Patrick Corbin limited the Mets to two runs over six innings, and despite a late-inning comeback attempt, Trea Turner would walk off with a solo home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Offense The Mets bats were like a dripping faucet, tallying hits but not too...
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The Mets will not shuffle their rotation ahead of their home opener on Thursday against the Washington Nationals: Noah Syndergaard will get the ball as scheduled. Syndergaard, 26, started his first game of the year on Saturday to mixed results. The right-hander yielded four runs on seven hits in six innings. He struck out seven and did not surrender a walk. The Texas native has been in the...
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The Mets go for an Opening Series sweep this afternoon! Yesterday, the Mets won 11-8 in a long game. New York went up up early 3-0 in the first and later 4-1, but as Syndergaard labored through six innings the Nationals eventually tied it 4-4. Between the eighth and ninth innings, the Mets were able to push it all the way out to 11-4 before collapsing a bit, allowing the final score to be 11-8....
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Here in D.C. watching the Mets score 11 runs en route to their second straight win over the Nationals, I noticed that they did it in a very pre-launch angle way — without a single home run. They did it with purposeful at-bats creating deep pitch counts and using the whole field to spray hits around the park the way the founding fathers of this great game intended offenses to cook when they...
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They didn’t bat No.2/No. 3 in the lineup but even so, Binghamton Rumble Pony fans watching the Mets play on television Saturday in Washington may have experienced a feeling of deja vu. That’s because New York Met neophytes Jeff McNeil and Pete Alonso were tearing up the Washington pitchers at Nationals Park. Just one year ago, the hard hitting duo were flashing their offensive...
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Noah Syndergaard was not like his September 2018 self yesterday. Noah did a good job of pitching inside last season, something Dave Eiland has been preaching since being hired. Noah did a good job of pitching in to left handed hitters yesterday but for righties, it was a different story. The third inning was probably the most difficult inning for Noah. He gave up a homer to Victor Robles and a...
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