New York Mets flamethrower Noah Syndergaard came into Wednesday night’s game in Philadelphia with a 1.99 earned-run average in September (three starts) but had been dealing with an uncharacteristic bout of control issues. Those issues continued to plague Syndergaard last night, with Thor making it through just four innings, tied for his shortest start of the season (April 4, vs. Phillies)....
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Good Morning, folks! The Mets to the Nation’s Capital to take on the Nationals. Jason Vargas gets the ball for New York. The Mets lost 4-0 to the Phillies last night. Noah Syndergaard gave up a couple of homers and the Mets offense did not do much. Latest Mets News The Mets shut down Zack Wheeler. Wheeler saw a 101 inning jump from 2017 to 2018 plus he missed all of 2015 and 2016. Wheeler...
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The New York Mets (70-82) lost 4-0 in this rubber match of their three-game series with the Philadelphia Phillies (78-73) at Citizens Bank Park. Pitching Noah Syndergaard made his third-to-last start and did not have an easy time of it. He gave up a homer in the first to Rhys Hoskins but still struck out three. He pitched a scoreless second inning and third inning but gave up a two-run homer to...
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After hinting at it following Monday night’s 9-4 win against the Philadelphia Phillies, manager Mickey Callaway has confirmed that the Mets are indeed shutting down starter Zack Wheeler for the remainder of the 2018 season. Wheeler had thrown 182.1 innings this year, just three shy of a career high in 2014 and over double his workload in an injury-shortened 2017 campaign. Despite opening...
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The Mets are going to have a large bundle of holes to fill this offseason and one of those might include a change of catchers behind the plate. At the moment, the team is currently deploying Kevin Plawecki and Tomas Nido there, with Devin Mesoraco set to hit free agency in the offseason and Travis d’Arnaud currently representing a non-tender candidate after being out since late-April...
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Zack Wheeler came into this season as an afterthought for many people as he had missed two full seasons (2015 and 2016) after getting Tommy John Surgery and had an injury plagued 2017 season as well. The right-hander was even optioned to Triple-A Las Vegas to start off the season, but eventually got his chance and certainly made the most of it. On the year, Wheeler has a 12-7 record to go along...
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