The Mets swept the Phillies on Thursday as they defeated Taijuan Walker in the third game of the three-game set. On Friday, the Mets faced another member of their 2022 team as Chris Bassitt and the Blue Jays traveled to Citi Field to start a three-game series. For the Mets, Justin Verlander took the mound hoping to rebound from a poor performance in Colorado. The game, originally scheduled for a...
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...
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 Mets and Cardinals faced off in the penultimate game of spring training on Saturday night at Clover Park. It was right-handed pitcher Andre Pallante on the mound for the visiting team against right-handed pitcher Tylor Megill for the Mets. Both the offense and pitching got off to slow starts on Saturday as the Mets and Cardinals ended up in a tie at the end of the night. The biggest offense...
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...
In what could be a pitching matchup we see at Citi Field or Truist Park in the future, both the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves threw one of their top pitching propects against each at CoolToday Park in North Port, Florida. In the end, the two teams played to a 2-2 tie in a game that took two hours and seven minutes to complete. Mike Vasil, the #11 prospect in the Mets system according to MLB...
It was a winner takes all night at Loan Depot Park in Miami as Mike Trout, Trea Turner, and the United States took on Shohei Ohtani of team Japan. Arizona Diamondbacks’ right-handed pitcher Merrill Kelly who got the ball for the U.S. against Shoto Imanaga, the left-handed pitcher from Japan. The United States got off to an early lead, but two home runs by Japan were enough to give Japan the...
The New York Mets (9-13) took home a 3-2 loss on Monday evening against the Washington Nationals (11-9). Overall, the game lacked offensive effort, as the team put up just two runs on seven hits and struck out 10 times. Despite Justin Verlander’s shaky start, the bullpen showed promising signs as four relievers combined to allow just one run on one hit with nine strikeouts, and battled...
It’s hard to believe, but we are in the last week-and-a-half of spring training with just two weekends left in the spring season, including this weekend. The Mets traveled from Port St. Lucie down south to West Palm Beach to face the Houston Astros in a night cap at the Ballpark of the Palm Beaches. Saturday’s matchup featured two aces: left-handed pitcher Framber Valdez for the Astros...
The Mets took on the Marlins at Clover Park on Friday night. Carlos Carrasco took the mound for New York while Miami’s number one prospect, Eury Pérez, got the start for the Marlins. Carrasco experienced issues with the PitchCom device in his cap to start the game, receiving a pitch clock violation and ultimately walking the leadoff batter Garrett Hampson after getting ahead in the count...
After the bad news that the New York Mets (7-11) got with Edwin Diaz’s season-ending injury, they needed something good to happen. The Mets did lose 3-0 to the Nationals down in West Palm Beach, but the team did get a good start from right-hander Kodai Senga in his second spring start with the team. Despite the loss, Senga put up a strong outing. He got off to a rough start in the bottom of the...
After an embarrassing loss to Mexico on Sunday, Team USA (2-1) got their offense going early on Monday against Canada. Thanks in part to a nine-run opening inning, USA was able to defeat Canada 12-1 in seven innings to put themselves in a much better position to qualify for the quarterfinals. While Team USA didn’t have the perfect game that Puerto Rico had earlier in the day against Israel, they...
