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Morning Briefing: Nice Weekend for Ewing Fans

Good morning, Mets fans! Now would be a good time for the Mets to get hot. A.J. Ewing connected for three hits, including his second homer, to raise his slash line to .267/.339/.381 as the last-place Mets took two of three from the first-place Braves with an 8-1 victory Sunday in front of 40,106 at Citi Field. Carson Benge, Bo Bichette, Juan Soto and Brett Baty each had two hits and Freddy...

Sean Manaea Thrives In His First Start Of The Season

Sean Manaea’s posted his first quality start of 2026 on Saturday. While the offense did him no favors in Saturday night’s 3-1 loss to the Atlanta Braves, Manaea was fantastic. Manaea went six innings, allowing two earned runs on four hits and striking out six. Manaea continued a fantastic stretch of pitching, allowing only nine earned runs over his last 25 2/3 innings pitched....

Peralta Hit Hard, But Confident Numbers Will Improve

Freddy Peralta came to the Mets coming off the best season of his career, but over his 13 starts entering Tuesday he had not been close to the pitcher who went 17-6 with a 2.70 ERA and placed fifth in Cy Young voting. But at 4-4 with a 3.63 ERA his numbers had been in line with his performances the two years prior. In 2024, he was 11-9 with a 3.68 ERA and in 2023 he went 12-10 with a 3.86 ERA....

Nolan McLean Fights Through Six Strong Innings

In what seems to be the norm for the 2026 New York Mets, they grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory Saturday night against the Padres. The Mets lost 3-2 thanks to a two run home run by Freddy Fermin off Austin Warren in the bottom of the seventh inning. Fermin entered the game with a .392 OPS and had yet to hit his first home run of the season. Despite the loss, Nolan McLean threw another very...

Christian Scott Stellar In First Career Win

It has happened! Christian Scott has finally earned his first career major league win, snapping a streak of 15 straight winless starts to begin his career, two shy of the major league record held by Liam Hendriks. The Mets took the win over the Marlins by a score of 6-1 on Saturday, winning three in a row and taking the series against Miami. It was a great day overall for the Mets, which...

Mets’ Offense Continues To Fizzle In Miami

Carson Benge went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts. So did A.J. Ewing. The Mets were one out away from getting one-hit on Saturday before Tyrone Taylor doubled and Mark Vientos singled to spoil a shutout. The offense was missing in Miami for a second straight game as the last-place New York Mets (22-30) lost 4-1 in front of 21,071 at loanDepot park. “The past couple games, we’ve faced...

Leaky Defense Does in Mets

The Mets failed to handle the baseball with care on Tuesday. Tyrone Taylor lost sight of it. Marcus Semien bobbled it and threw it wildly. Luis Torrens didn’t catch it (twice). The irresponsibility came at the worst time. With two outs and the bases loaded in the second inning, James Wood drove an 85 mph Nolan McLean sweeper 379 feet to the left-field wall. Nick Morabito, making his MLB...

Mets to Call Up Lefty Zach Thornton

The Mets are calling up left-handed prospect Zach Thornton to make his debut Wednesday against the Nationals, Carlos Mendoza said Monday. Thornton, 24, struck out nine over six scoreless innings in his most recent start at Triple-A Syracuse on Friday. He was MMO’s No. 16 Mets prospect before the season, and is No. 13 on MLB Pipeline’s Mets Prospects List. Mendoza said a decision...

Morning Briefing: Mets Limp Home With MLB’s Worst Record

Good morning, Mets fans! The bats were cold in the desert. Eduardo Rodriguez pitched a career-high 8 1/3 innings and held the Mets hitless until Carson Benge singled with one out in the sixth as Arizona beat the Mets 5-1 Sunday to take two out of three. New York (15-25) scored five runs on 12 hits in the series and finished their road trip at 5-4. “We needed to be better,” Carlos...

Consistent Clay Holmes Leads National League In ERA

Clay Holmes likely would not have been the guy many would have thought would be leading the National League in ERA on May 10. Of Mets pitchers, the first guess would have been Freddy Peralta (3.12 ERA) and then maybe Nolan McLean (2.78), but after his eighth consecutive start of allowing two earned runs or fewer Holmes’ ERA leads the NL at 1.86. He’s been so good that giving up two...

Aggressive Semien Smacks Four Hits

Marcus Semien singled on the first pitch he saw in the second inning. He doubled on Michael Lorenzen’s second offering to him in the fourth. He singled on the first pitch in the sixth. In the ninth, with the Mets up 8-4, he drove a 3-1 pitch 395 feet to left (exit velocity 100.8 mph) for a two-run homer. It all added up to the first four-hit game for a Met this year. He scored three runs,...

3 Up, 3 Down: Mets Take Series In Anaheim

For just the second time this season, and the first since early April, the New York Mets won a series on the road. The Mets took two out of three from the Angels to get the road trip off to a promising start. As a result, New York improved to 12-22 on the year. Of course, it is too early to tell if this is the start of a turnaround. The Mets hardly made it easy in Anaheim, committing a series of...

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