It feels like the Mets bullpen has been blowing games like clockwork. On Friday night, it happened for New York yet again. Starter Zack Wheeler gave the team six strong, scoreless innings, and went back out for the seventh. He allowed a pair of hits, and manager Mickey Callaway decided to pull the plug and put in righty Paul Sewald to get him out of the jam. If this was April, it would have been...
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Over the past couple nights, Mets third baseman Todd Frazier has been rehabbing with the Triple-A Las Vegas 51s. It’s been nearly a month since Frazier played a game for the Mets, which was on May 7 in Cincinnati where he went 0-for-5. After a hot start to the season, Frazier’s bat was cooling off before he landed on the DL with an injured left hamstring. Frazier trying to battle...
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In another game that pitted the Mets against an offensive powerhouse in the Chicago Cubs, Zack Wheeler battled, but came up empty once again despite giving his team a chance (and then some) to come out victorious. The righty eclipsed 100 pitches for the third consecutive start — a feat he had not accomplished since his solid 2014 campaign — soldiering through six scoreless innings before running...
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Las Vegas (23-33) 2, Reno (24-32) 1 Box Score Todd Frazier 3B: 1-3, .333/.333/.333 Dominic Smith 1B: 1-4, 2B, .269/.362/.390 Phillip Evans SS: 1-4, RBI, 2 K, .248/.318/.519 The 51s were being no-hit until the seventh inning, when Frazier broke it up with a leadoff single in his second rehab game. After being pinch-hit for in the sixth inning in his first rehab game Thursday night, he was...
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Good morning, Mets fans. Today, Jacob deGrom (4-0, 1.52 ERA) will attempt to continue his Cy Young quality campaign against the Cubbies. DeGrom has been on an insane roll lately and has given up two earned runs in his last 40.1 innings. Mike Montgomery (1-1, 4.35 ERA) will oppose him. The game will be on FOX and 710WOR at 7:15 p.m. A common theme of this season reoccurred yesterday. Brandon...
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The New York Mets were defeated by the Chicago Cubs 7-4 on Friday night at Citi Field as the Mets bullpen struggled again like clockwork. For the first time this season, New York has fallen below the .500 mark. Pitching Zack Wheeler issued a 10 pitch lead off walk to Ben Zobrist to open the game and a batter later, Kris Bryant blooped a one out single to right. Wheeler was then able to get...
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