Good morning, Mets fans!
Tonight, Jason Vargas (2-5, 7.39 ERA) will hope that the Mets offense will stay on fire. The Mets scored 12 runs and 14 hits in yesterday’s contest. Vargas will be matched by German Marquez (4-7, 5.13 ERA). The game can be viewed on SNY and 710WOR at 8:40 p.m.
Jacob deGrom characteristically put on a clinic, going eight innings and allowing just one run. He didn’t have his best stuff, but battled through eight frames. Meanwhile the Mets offense picked up where it left off in Arizona.
Brandon Nimmo led off the game with an inside-the-park home run, marking the third-ever leadoff inside-the-park homer in Mets history. Michael Conforto tallied three more hits and two doubles and has hopefully turned the corner after a rough start to the season. The Mets pounded Rockies relievers Jeff Hoffman and Brook Pounders to top off a 12-2 victory.
Latest Mets News
Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reports the Mets are willing to listen on all of their players, but want to hold on to their young core pieces. He also said that the Mets would be more likely to trade Noah Syndergaard than Jacob deGrom. Anthony DiComo of MLB.com later noted that if a situation manifests where the aces are on the trading block, it’ll happen in a couple of weeks.
Per MetsMerizedOnline’s own Jacob Resnick, the Mets 18th rounder Chase Chambers agreed to a deal with the team. Based on this play from a few weeks ago, he’ll fit right in!
Elias Sports Bureau had some statistics regarding the Mets poor offensive performance.
Mickey Callaway said Yoenis Cespedes will begin to ramp up his exercise. He also remarked Noah Syndergaard is also on the comeback trail.
Jay Bruce was scratched from yesterday’s lineup with a sore hip.
The National League’s All-Star ballot results came out yesterday. Asdrubal Cabrera was the only Met represented and he placed fifth in the second-base voting.
Latest MLB News
Marcell Ozuna and Evan Gattis received the National League and American League’s player of the week award, respectively.
The Mets officially announced their signing of their second-round pick, Simeon Woods-Richardson.
Jon Morosi of MLBNetwork believes that the Mariners and Yankees have interest in Blue Jays starter J.A. Happ.
The Rangers activated their long-time infielder Elvis Andrus off the DL
The Indians signed lefty reliever and the owner of the hardest name to spell in the MLB, Marc Rzepczynski.
Robert Osuna isn’t likely to return in 2018 as his admistrictive leave was extended to June 25.
The Astros extended now-President of Baseball Operations Jeff Luhnow through 2023.
Melky Cabrera elected free agency.
Bartolo Colon won his 244th game last night and became the winningest Dominican-born pitcher ever.
Latest NL East News
The Phillies sent down their once closer-of-the-future Hector Neris to Triple-A.
The Good Phight is enamored with backstop Jorge Alfaro.
Juan Soto technically hit his first-career homer (it’s confusing) in a 4-2 loss against the Yankees.
The Nats and Royals made a rare pre-July trade as closer Kelvin Herrera was sent to Washington in exchange for three minor-leaguers.
Latest on MMO
Logan Barer examined Brandon Nimmo’s dingers this season
Barer also advocated for Robert Gsellman to become the closer.
Tim Ryder talked about Jose Reyes‘ contributions to Sunday’s thrilling win.
Mike Silva published his “Talkin’ Mets” podcast.
Dilip Sridhar eximaned Jarred Kelenic, the Mets 2018 first round draft pick.
On This Date in Mets history
in 1988, David Cone lost a no-no in the eighth inning against the Orioles.
The following year, Dwight Gooden recorded his 100th career win.
Birthdays- Collin McHugh (31), Claudio Vargas, (40), Bruce Chen (41), Doug Mientkiewicz,(44) Bob Aspromonte (80), Larry Miller (81) and some random guy I’ve never heard of named Jacob deGrom (30).
Let’s go Mets!
