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Mark Canha Praises Pete Alonso

Former Met Mark Canha made a recent appearance on the podcast “The Show” with Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman, where he talked about a range of topics from being a Brewer, to Tommy Pham’s comments on Mets’ players’ work ethics, to being teammates with Pete Alonso. Canha joined the show and first spoke about the trade that sent him to the Milwaukee Brewers: “It was...

Phillies Spoil Mets’ Late-Game Heroics With 5-4 Walk-Off Win

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...

Alonso’s Three-Run Blast Not Enough As Mets Fall To Reds 5-3

After winning three in a row against the Diamondbacks, the Mets continued their homestand Friday night with the first game in a three-game series against the Reds. David Peterson got the start for New York, while flamethrower Hunter Greene was on the mound for Cincinnati. The Mets played behind for most of the game, briefly tying it on a clutch home run from Pete Alonso, but they immediately...

Morning Briefing: Mets Lose Seven Straight For First Time Since 2019

Good morning, Mets fans. The Mets lost their seventh game in a row on Friday in embarrassing fashion as they fell to the Pirates 14-7. A poor outing from Tylor Megill and defensive blunders put the game out of reach early despite the Mets’ best effort at a comeback in the ninth inning. The seven-game losing streak is the Mets’ longest since they lost seven straight from June 23 to...

Lindor Finishes Mets’ 10-9 Comeback Win Over Former Team

Coming off the team’s first series win in a month, the Mets hosted the Guardians on Friday for the first game of a three-game series. In the first game between the two teams since the blockbuster trade that brought Francisco Lindor and Carlos Carrasco to New York and sent Andrés Giménez and Amed Rosario to Cleveland, Carrasco got the start for the Mets against his former team while Cal...

Joey Lucchesi Shines as Mets Silence Giants 7-0

The Mets played their second game of a four-game series against the San Francisco Giants late Friday night. Joey Lucchesi, who hadn’t pitched in a major league game since the 2021 season, got the start for the Mets in place of the injured Carlos Carrasco. Meanwhile, starting for the Giants was Anthony DeSclafani, who had been pitching excellently through his first three starts of the...

Motivated Pete Alonso Rakes Against Rays

Pete Alonso arrived back from the World Baseball Classic on Thursday and he came back with one thing on his mind: The Mets making it to the postseason. Alonso represented a Team USA team that lost to Japan in the final of the tournament. So many players came back saying the WBC had the atmosphere of playoff baseball, and Alonso was no different. “It’s an addicting feeling,” he said in an...

Scherzer Dominates, Alonso Homers in 11-2 Victory Over Rays

The Mets traveled to Tropicana Field to take on the Rays Friday afternoon. Max Scherzer got the start for New York in what will be his final appearance before Opening Day. Luis Patiño was the starter for Tampa Bay. The Mets struck early as a leadoff Luis Guillorme walk and a Francisco Lindor double made it a 1-0 ballgame. Pete Alonso then ambushed Patiño with a base hit on the first pitch he...

Pete Alonso And The Curious Case Of The Intentional Walk

It wouldn’t be much of a novelty to state that Pete Alonso is the Mets’ biggest power threat—not heading into 2023, not in 2022, and not in any season since he joined the major league club in 2019. That being the case, it is more puzzling to understand why the other major league teams took three years to catch up to that fact—or, at least, in one area they did. From 2019 through...

Pete Alonso Begins Spring Training With A Bang

Pete Alonso looks primed and ready as the 2023 Mets’ spring training season officially gets under way. Alonso was 3-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored. One of those hits was a lead-off, solo home run in the bottom of the second inning off of Marlins’ starting pitcher, Braxton Garrett. It was a long home run, deep over the center field wall of Clover Park, clocked at 105.3 MPH off the...

Full Hitting Profile Breakdown: Pete Alonso

All Mets fans know that Pete Alonso is one of the biggest sluggers in baseball. As the questions at Jeff McNeil’s introductory press conference suggested, signing Alonso to a contract extension must now be a top priority for Steve Cohen and Billy Eppler. If McNeil is a homegrown Met star, Alonso is a homegrown Met superstar. Alonso has had his ups and downs just like any other hitter....

Pete Alonso Ranked No. 5 on MLB Network’s Top First Basemen

Pete Alonso was ranked fifth on MLB Network’s 2023 list of top first basemen in the game. The four players ranked above Alonso were: Paul Goldschmidt Freddie Freeman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. José Abreu The Polar Bear is coming off a stellar 2022 season that saw him smash 40 home runs, knock in 131 runs, and accumulate 4.0 fWAR (fourth among first baseman) over 161 games. He ranked first among...

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