There have been many splendid pitching performances in Mets history, and Tom Seaver is appropriately responsible for most of them. For all the gems this mound artist conjured up, his outing on July 9, 1969 is his masterpiece. In front of a jam-packed Shea Stadium, the Mets faced the team they were chasing in the National League East and a lineup that included three Hall of Famers — Ernie Banks,...
He was with his new team for hardly a month before he made his presence felt and it wasn’t with his bat or his glove. Donn Clendenon, the free swinging, free-talking, outspoken new first baseman for the New York Mets was in the field for New York on July 9, 1969. Tom Seaver was on the mound and the opponent was the Chicago Cubs whom the Mets trailed by 4.5 games. In perhaps the greatest...
The New York Mets announced they have optioned reliever Chris Mazza to Triple-A Syracuse and recalled reliever Drew Gagnon, who will join the Mets in Atlanta. Mazza, 29, has appeared in four games for the Mets this season, recording a 5.19 ERA, 3.56 FIP, and 1.731 WHIP across 8.2 innings. Gagnon, 29, flirted with a perfect game last week and is rewarded with another chance at the big league...
Squaring off on Sunday Night Baseball, Bartolo Colon and Justin Verlander were engaged in the best pitcher’s duel of the year so far. Verlander allowed just one run on a solo shot from Robinson Chirinos in the third inning. That would prove to be the only hit Verlander would allow through eight innings. He struck out 11 batters, but 44-year-old Colon was better. Colon took a perfect game...
Major League Baseball has announced umpires Bob Davidson, John Hirschbeck, Jim Joyce, and Tim Welke have retired. Davidson, also known as Balkin’ Bob for his propensity to call balks, began as a National League umpire in 1982. Davidson has long been a controversial umpire, whether it was him being a part of a group that tried to lead an umpire strike, his being the rare umpire suspended by...
Matt Harvey was overpowering versus the Colorado Rockies last night. He fired eight scoreless innings while striking out four batters to gain his 11th win of the season. He dominated the Rockies’ lineup for the entire contest as his fastball and changeup command were on point. Harvey did not walk a single batter all evening. Harvey’s stuff was so good that Terry Collins believed he...
Las Vegas and Steven Matz (7-4, 2.11) take on Salt Lake City at 9:05 ET tonight. Binghamton (36-32) 5, New Hampshire 2 Binghamton was put in an early deficit when Gabriel Ynoa gave up two runs in the bottom of the third that didn’t last long when Michael Conforto started a two-out two-run rally in the top of the 4th with his 8th double for the Mets. Ynoa and the bullpen would shut down the...
On June 20, 1964 Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Jim Bunning threw a perfect game against the New York Mets in the first game of a doubleheader at Shea Stadium. With his wife and children in the stands, here’s what happened … By the eighth inning 32,904 Mets fans were cheering for the Philadelphia Phillies, for pitcher Jim Bunning. On Father’s Day 1964, the Phillies...
Las Vegas (32-29) 11, Reno 6 Steven Matz had his worst outing going just 4 innings giving up four runs on five hits (HR) and three walks while still managing to strike out six. Matz was in deep counts most of the night needing 83 (50 strikes) to make it through his shortest outing since August 18th, 2013. Matz big struggle was the 3rd inning when he gave up all four of his runs throwing 35...
Jacob deGrom improves to 6-4 on the season with a 2.41 ERA after another outstanding start during last night’s game. He pitched 8 scoreless innings while allowing just two hits against the Padres. San Deigo’s lineup looked completely overmatched as deGrom brought his best stuff to the mound. “This was probably the best game I have seen him pitch and I have seen him pitch some really,...
We all know what a perfect game is. 27 up, 27 down. But a “perfect” game can also be when a team excels in all aspects of the game in the same night: pitching, hitting and defense. When a team plays a “perfect” game, they usually win. It’s pretty simple, since if all three aspects are perfect – especially pitching and defense – it means the other team didn’t score many runs. With the way this...
If John Stephenson is remembered at all by fans of the early Mets, it’s as the last out of Jim Bunning’s perfect game. He was so overmatched in striking out, the Mets might as well have plucked a fan out of the stands at random and asked him to get a hit off Bunning. At the time, if I remember correctly, Stephenson was hitting a feeble .149 and it didn’t get much better for...
