After an off day on Thursday, the Mets traveled to Target Field in Minneapolis to take on the Twins for a three-game set. The first game of the series took place on Friday night, with Kodai Senga taking the mound against Dallas Keuchel. In a game that was close most of the night, the Twins pulled ahead late to defeat the Mets 5-2. A solid outing from Senga was spoiled by the bullpen in a bizarre...
The Mets hosted the Giants for the first game of a three-game set on Friday night. The game officially marked the beginning of the second half of the season for the Mets, and if this game is a sign of things to come, the team will only continue to disappoint. After a five-iinning start by Carlos Carrasco was followed up by two solid combined innings from Jeff Brigham and Brooks Raley, David...
Hope springs eternal and another season began for the New York Mets on Thursday as they took on the Miami Marlins at loanDepot Park. It was a battle of Cy Young winners as Max Scherzer took on the reigning award winner in Sandy Alcantara. Even with both aces on the mound, the game ultimately came down to a battle of the bullpens and thanks to clutch double by Brandon Nimmo, the Mets were able to...
The final game of Pool D of the World Baseball Classic between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic had a Game 7 feel to it at loanDepot Park in Miami, Florida. But nothing that happened in the game will matter to Mets fans more than what happened directly afterwards. After striking out the side in the bottom of the ninth for Puerto Rico, Mets closer Edwin Díaz appeared to suffer a severe leg...
Major League Baseball is likely to expand in the near future, once the stadium situations in Tampa Bay and Oakland are sorted out and decisions are made on whether or not those franchises will relocate. The expectation is that two teams will be added, bringing the number to 32. Will MLB couple this expansion with a radical realignment of divisions? In an article in The Athletic, Jim Bowden...
Good morning, Mets fans! The Houston Astros, off the bats of Yordan Alvarez and Kyle Tucker, led the Astros to a 4-2 win over the Seattle Mariners and have taken a 2-0 series lead in the American League Division Series. Alvarez’s go-ahead home run in the sixth inning makes him the only player to have multiple go-ahead home runs in the sixth inning or later with his team trailing in the...
For just the second time in franchise history, the National League batting champion will be a New York Met. Jeff McNeil finished 2022 with a .326 average, narrowly topping Freddie Freeman to finish the 2022 season with the best batting average in MLB. McNeil struggled in 2021, hitting just .251 over 140 games after hitting .319 in his first three years in the majors. This season, he returned to...
September ended on a sour note Friday, and October hasn’t been much better. Nevertheless, in the 15-win month, the Mets had a couple of solid performances from Eduardo Escobar and Max Scherzer. Hitter of the Month Whatever misfortunes Eduardo Escobar had through the first five months of the season, the 33-year-old flipped the script of his season in September. Across the month, Escobar had...
The New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves are set to begin an electrifying three-game series on Friday night. Both teams are on pace to win 100 games in the regular season, something that is very rare for two teams to accomplish in the same division. At one point, it looked as if the divisional race was over when the Mets held a 10.5 game on June 1. But the Braves have stormed all the way back to...
3 UP Arigato, Thank You There was a clip floating around Twitter from June where a struggling Eduardo Escobar promised Mets fans that he was going to give them a reason to cheer for him. Escobar wasn’t entirely being fair to himself because he was awesome in April. That said, he was true to his word. In September, Escobar is hitting .330/.379/.638 with three doubles, a homer, and 24 RBI....
Good morning, Mets fans! The Mets enter today’s action with their division down to just one game after the Braves beat the Nationals, 8-0. Righty Bryce Elder threw a complete-game shutout while Marcell Ozuna, Matt Olson, and Orlando Arcia all hit homers. With the Mets having a day off, their magic number to clinch the division remains at eight with eight games left in the regular season....
Good morning, Mets fans. Jacob deGrom was roughed up on Saturday as the Mets fell to the Athletics 10-4 in what was deGrom’s roughest outing since 2019. He struck out just five and gave up five runs across four innings before Buck Showalter handed the game to the bullpen. With the Mets losing, and the Braves taking a victory over the Phillies, the Braves are now just 1.5 games behind the...
