The Phillies hosted the Mets for the second of a four-game series on Friday night. After taking an early 2-0 lead, the Mets allowed four consecutive runs and fell flat. However, the Mets closed a 4-2 deficit in the final innings, sending the game to extras, but it was the Phillies who came out on top 5-4 in 10 innings. The Mets got the scoring started early, putting a run up against former Met...
There are many ways to acknowledge just how remarkable this 11th-hour turnaround a year ago really was. Before the Mets did it at Citizens Bank Park, there were 857 consecutive times that a team trailing by at least six runs entering the ninth had somehow figured out a way to win. Starling Marte’s long double off the wall was the punctuation. But this seven-run rally, like all comebacks of...
David Wright stepped up to the plate in the top of the second inning at Citizens Bank Park preparing to take his first swing in 133 days. Once a mainstay in the Mets lineup, “The Captain” missed over four months. Initially he was diagnosed with a hamstring injury. But it was soon discovered he suffered from spinal stenosis, the ailment which would ultimately cause the premature end...
Jeff McNeil is raking right now. He is arguably one of the hottest hitters in the league right now. And the second baseman was at the very peak of his powers yet again on Saturday. As he was once again was dominant at the plate against the Phillies. All that trade speculation back in the winter regarding the possibility of McNeil being moved feels a long, long time ago now. Having struggled...
The Mets (78-44) wriggled their way out of some jams Saturday night, but they struggled to overcome a lack of offense and an uneven performance in the field. They fell 4-1, dropping the nightcap of their doubleheader with the Phillies (66-54) after taking the first two games of the series at Citizens Bank Park. David Peterson and the bullpen dealt with traffic all night, and they did a solid job...
Sharing the eastern seaboard and the same division understandably creates a rift between fans and players alike, who over the years have exchanged words and sometimes fists. Many notable faces have seen it from both sides: Tug McGraw, Lenny Dykstra, and Zack Wheeler just to same a few. Proximity breeds hatred. And many, if not all, of these memorable games, give added reason for one side to only...
Baseball has no template for the prototypical player, but Bartolo Colón stretched those boundaries. Defying age and space, he came to Queens with 16 seasons, seven teams and a Cy Young Award on his resume. His durability and capacity to adapt allowed him to prolong his career further than most major leaguers. And at Citizens Bank Park, in his first seasons with the Mets, he reached a feat few...
Good Morning, Mets fans! On Tuesday evening, the New York Mets fell 4-1 to the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. The Mets are now 21-26, 2.5 games back of the third-place Phillies, and 6.5 games back of the first-place Atlanta Braves. After the game, Brandon Nimmo admitted that “everyone is a little down right now, as I think is appropriate.” On Wednesday, the Mets will be...
In the aggregate, the results of Steven Matz’s start last night were as frustrating as they were expected: 4.1 innings, six runs (all earned), five hits, and a homer in a dismal 6-2 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. He is now winless with four losses to his name and his ERA sits at 9.00 – the second-worst among 60 qualified starters (a run ahead of Detroit Tigers’ lefty...
Good Morning, Mets fans! Last night, Walker Lockett took the mound in Philadelphia after Jacob deGrom was scratched due to neck stiffness. The Mets came up just short against the Phillies though, by a score of 6-5. Well after the Met game ended last night, Jeff Passan of ESPN reported that a Reds player tested positive for COVID-19. This is likely to cancel Saturday’s game between the Reds...
As much as the Philadelphia Phillies tried to give the New York Mets the game on Friday, in the end it was the Phillies who were celebrating on the field with a 6-5 victory at Citizens Bank Park. The Phils played sloppy baseball throughout, letting two fly balls reach the field untouched and getting a runner thrown out at third, but it was a poor (and late) tag by Wilson Ramos in the bottom of...
The Philadelphia Phillies announced on Thursday that while no players tested positive for COVID-19, two staff members did and that all activity at Citizens Bank Park has been cancelled until further notice. The team said that one member of the coaching staff and one from the home clubhouse tested positive. Earlier this week, the Marlins cancelled all games and team activities after a large...
