Logan Verrett will start for the Mets on Monday, in place of Matt Harvey in an effort to limit his innings before the playoffs. You may remember that Verrett tossed eight innings of one-run baseball in his last spot start, on August 23 in Colorado, so no need to panic. The Mets expect to pitch Harvey again against the Yankees at Citi Field. After that depending on whether or not the game has any...
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This was never supposed to happen. The 2015 Washington Nationals are one year removed from a 96-win season and an NL East crown by 17.0 games. The Mets, meanwhile, could not muster 80 wins and tied for second place. The Nationals were the new kings of the NL East — and the Mets? Irrelevant for years, save for jokes that allowed a dead horse to be reincarnated and beaten to death again. The...
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According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, the New York Mets and Yoenis Cespedes have agreed to amend the clause in his contract that gave the Mets only five days to sign him after the World Series. “Thus, rather than be under a short-term constraint to decide whether to sign Cespedes as a free agent, the Mets can let the process play out and be like any of the other 29 clubs that can...
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Washington sure could have used their ex-bullpen specialist last night. In a thrilling Mets come-from-behind 8-7 win over the Nationals, it was their former pitcher Tyler Clippard who came into pitch a huge scoreless 8th inning to help preserve a crucial Mets win. Clippard may have been a little extra amped up before coming into this game to face his old team, but there was extra fuel to the...
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Even though Kirk Nieuwenhuis is having a disappointing season overall when you examine his overall numbers, he delivered the biggest hit of the year in last night’s dramatic victory over the Washington Nationals. In a tie game in the 8th inning facing Nationals’ All-Star closer Jonathan Papelbon, Nieuwenhuis crushed a solo home run to right field to give New York an 8-7 lead....
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Coming into Tuesday nights game, a majority of Mets fans had a feeling that Matt Harvey was going to come out firing against the Washington Nationals in what was going to be the most important game of the year. How could he not have a Harvey like outing? It seemed fitting after all the media attention he’s received the last several days over the questions surrounding his innings limit and...
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