Morning Briefing: Battle of the Cy Young Candidates

Good morning, Mets fans!

On Friday night, the Mets fell three games back of the Chicago Cubs in the NL Wild Card standings with their 9-2 loss to the Dodgers. Noah Syndergaard only threw five innings, struck out four and walked two while giving up four runs to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Reigning 2018 NL Cy Young Award winner, Jacob deGrom (9-8,2.70) will face off against the favorite to win the 2019 NL Cy Young Award in Hyun-Jin Ryu (12-5, 2.45) Saturday night at Citi Field. With the increasing success of deGrom and recent struggles of Ryu, giving up 21 runs in his last four starts, it will be an interesting matchup, to say the least.

The game will air on PIX11 at 7:10 p.m. and will be broadcasted via radio stations WCBS 880 AM and ESPN 1050 AM.

Latest Mets News

Todd Hundley visited the Mets and spoke with Pete Alonso, who is chasing after his single-season home run record in Mets history.

Jeff McNeil was presented with the 2019 Mets Heart and Hustle Award from the MLBPA. He was honored before Friday nights game, according to New York Daily News writer, Deesha Thosar.

Mike Petriello of MLB.com, dove deeper to uncover more interesting facts regarding Noah Syndergaard‘s pitching performance with Wilson Ramos v.s Tomas Nido behind the plate.

Tim Tebow spoke with First Take to give his thoughts on the new bill from the California Senate allowing student-athletes to have endorsements.

Friday marked a year since the Mets announced the return of David Wright for one last game on September 25 before retiring from baseball.

Latest MLB News

Theo Epstein, president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs, is “extremely frustrated” with the underachieving of his team thus far in the season, he spoke with 670 The Score about it.

Jen McCaffery, of the Athletic, wrote an intriguing article where she takes fans behind the scenes with an MLB Authenticator.

Jon Tayler of Sports Illustrated wrote about Lew Ford‘s career which spanned 20 years, and across 12 teams continues as a player-coach for the Long Island Ducks.

Blake Snell is slated to return next week after being sent to the injured list with loose bodies in his elbow. Following surgery back in July, he will make his return Tuesday and pitch about three innings.

The Los Angeles Dodgers reinstated Max Muncy on Friday prior to their game against the Mets. He was sidelined with a fractured wrist and has had a very speedy recovery being on the injured list only two weeks.

Latest NL East News

The Atlanta Braves reinstated Nick Markakis from the 10-day injured list and recalled Touki Toussaint, Bryse Wilson, and Kyle Wright. The team placed Johan Camargo on the 10-day injured list with a right shin fracture.

Latest on MMO

Joe D wrote about the importance of this weekend series with the Dodgers being their final hurdle before their stretch of games against teams below .500.

Matt Musico discussed Pete Alonso‘s remarkable season and just how well balanced he has been at the plate.

Gianna Arantes talked about Marcus Stroman‘s most recent start which was his best start with the Mets.

John Sheridan spoke out about the recent Mets sweep and the most important takeaways from their recent resurgence.

Logan Barer wrote about the recent success of Juan Lagares in their game Thursday afternoon.