Good Morning, Mets fans!
The Astros, who were once down 3-0, evened the series to force a game seven against the Rays. They will play tonight at 8:37 PM ET on TBS.
The Dodgers stayed alive, taking down the Braves, who still lead the series 3-2. That game will be aired on FS1 today at 4:38 PM ET.
Latest Mets News
Dominic Smith is a finalist for the 2020 Hank Aaron Award. Click this link to go vote for him!
Latest MLB News
The MLB and MLBPA have announced that there have been no new positive COVID tests in the past 47 straight days, as reported by Joel Sherman for the NY Post.
Alex Coffey of the Athletic wrote an interesting article on the man behind the MLB player fun facts! Jeff Praught has accumulated over 80,000 scoreboard player-fun facts for the San Diego Padres’ scoreboards as the team’s manager of scoreboard operations.
Farhan Zaidi, President of Baseball Operations for the SF Giants, spoke with the media and discussed his offseason plans citing that he wants to put a playoff team on the field in 2021. Pitching is one of their focuses this offseason starting with re-signing Kevin Gausman and Drew Smyly. Zaidi also mentioned that he is going to get some experience on the team with a veteran signing to help the younger arms on the team. Steve Adams from MLB Trade Rumors had the article.
Adams also reported that the Kansas City Royals have a plethora of players who are arbitration eligible this offseason — 11 players to be exact. They also have two free agents they may want to consider resigning in Ian Kennedy and Greg Holland.
Latest NL East News
Freddie Freeman spoke with FOX Sports analysts Kevin Burkhardt, Alex Rodriguez, David Ortiz, and Frank Thomas about playing in his first NLCS.
Latest On MMO
Rich Sparago reminisces about the Mets’ World Series Win on October 16th, 1969.
Rich Mancuso discusses Dominic Smith’s hard work in preparing for the 2020 season, and how it has translated onto the diamond.
Ryan Finkelstein grades Jeurys Familia‘s 2020 season in our MMO 2020 Mets Report Card series.
On This Day in Mets History
Happy Birthday to Rafael Montero (29), Chris Mazza (30), Mark Johnson (52), and Rich Folkers (73)!
1999: Robin Ventura hits a home run in the bottom of the 15th inning with the bases loaded that would be known as the “Grand Slam Single.” The Grand Slam Single came to be when Ventura hit the home run but failed to touch all the bases before being mobbed by his teammates. What would have been a walk-off grand slam turned into an RBI single.
As always, stay happy, healthy, and safe!
