Last night in a 6-5 win over the Philadelphia Phillies, Terry Collins asked his closer Jeurys Familia to get four outs for his ball club. Familia did exactly that, and the Mets perserved in a much needed victory to remain 5 1/2 games up on the Washington Nationals. Familia came on in the bottom of the 8th inning after set-up man Tyler Clippard had allowed a single to Andres Blanco and a walk to...
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In an effort to align their best pitchers against their division rivals, the Washington Nationals will skip Max Scherzer’s scheduled start tomorrow and instead pitch Saturday as reported by James Wagner of the Washington Post. Doing this will align Scherzer, Jordan Zimmerman and Stephen Strasburg to face the mets twice in the final month of the season. Gio Gonzalez will star tomorrow in...
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During the bottom of the seventh inning in Tuesday night’s game at Citizens Bank Park, benches cleared after Mets relief pitcher Hansel Robles quick-pitched the Phillies pinch-hitter Darin Ruf while his head was turned away and down. He eventually struck out. Jeff Francoeur began hurling f-bombs towards Robles as Larry Bowa charged out of the dugout to give home plate umpire Dan Bellino...
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The Mets (69-56) beat the Phillies (50-76) by a score of 6-5 Tuesday night in Philadelphia. Pitching: Noah Syndergaard started for the Mets, securing his first ever road victory. In his 10th road start, he went 5 innings allowing 4 runs (2 earned) on 4 hits while walking 2 and striking out 9. Other than two mistakes that led to home runs by Freddy Galvis and Ryan Howard, he wasn’t bad. He...
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The first place New York Mets will look to keep their onslaught going on Tuesday night against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. Rookie right-hander Noah Syndergaard (7-6, 3.17) will try to overcome his road woes against Phillies right-hander Jerome Williams (4-9, 6.10) at 7:05 PM. The Mets now have a season-high 5 1/2-game lead over the Washington Nationals for first place in the...
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On the morning of July 24, before the Mets had made any trades, the Mets had the 12th best odds of winning the World Series (1.8%). Now, a little over a month later, our friends at Number Fire calculate that the Mets have the fourth best odds of winning the World Series (10.6%) behind only the Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers and Kansas City Royals. Yes, the Mets have a better chance to...
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