With a 2-0 lead in the National League Championship Series, the New York Mets head to Wrigley Field to take on the Chicago Cubs for Game 3 tonight at 8:07 PM. RHP Jacob deGrom (2-0, 1.38) looks for his third postseason win and will oppose RHP Kyle Hendricks (0-0, 5.79) for the Cubs. New York’s bullpen has not allowed a run in its last four postseason games, spanning 11.2 innings. During that...
Read More
An MMO Fan Shot by US Army Combat Veteran Michael Cunningham First, let me preface this by saying I do NOT think the postseason is over or that the Mets even have the NLCS locked up. I don’t want to jinx our team. Now, I have bled blue and orange since 1982 when I was an eight year old watching Mike Scott lose at Shea. I have seen more ups than downs in those years, counting 1986 as one of...
Read More
Jon Morosi of Fox Sports points out that the New York Mets’ postseason rotation comprised of Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Matt Harvey and Steven Matz are historically the second quartet in modern baseball to meet the following criteria: 1. They are each 27 or younger. 2. They made their Major League Baseball debuts with the same team, the Mets. 3. They made their MLB postseason debuts...
Read More
After being traded by the Mets three seasons ago, R.A. Dickey has a chance to start against his former team in the World Series. Dickey would love to see a Blue Jays and Mets series happen, and he thinks it would be great if he can go up against Noah Syndergaard. “I think it would make for a great story, for sure. What a script that would be if I could face Syndergaard in [World Series] Game...
Read More
Mets ace Jacob deGrom returns to the mound tonight at Wrigley Field for Game 3 of the NLCS against the Chicago Cubs after taking the first two games of the series in New York. “I think we have a lot of confidence going into this game,” deGrom said on Monday during his media session. “We matched up well against two great pitchers and we got a chance to take a 3-0 lead tomorrow....
Read More
Daniel Murphy is all the rage in the last 48 hours whether on the baseball blogosphere, sports talk radio and even on the National circuit where everyone on MLB Network and ESPN are all asking whether the Mets are really going to let Daniel Murphy go after the season. Reports by Joel Sherman, Jon Heyman and Kristie Ackert all said “no chance” on Monday. I had posed this question to...
Read More
