The Mets really could have used another run Saturday. They crossed the plate once in nine innings. Unless their pitchers were crafting a shutout, that wasn’t going to be enough to win their game against the Blue Jays. Collectively, their pitchers held as much fort as they could, giving up only two runs to a […]
 
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 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Al Leiter, Celebrations, Frustration, Gary Cohen, Howard Johnson, Howie Rose, Jay Horwitz, Mets Hall of Fame, One-Run Defeats, Team History On June 18, 2015, an ex-Met pitching for the Blue Jays beat the Mets — not just any ex-Met, but beloved former Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey, taking his first turn against his old club since scaling the heights of fame in Flushing. It also wasn’t just any start. Dickey’s dad Harry had died […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Chris Bassitt, Justin Verlander, R.A. Dickey, The Circle of Life When Max Scherzer starts, which Max Scherzer will we get? The one who’s hypercompetitive, hyperintense and hyperfocused en route to a stifling mound performance? Or the one who’s all those things to less Met-positive discernible effect? Both, as Scherzer nears 40, exist in our world. We prefer the former. We have, for various reasons that […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Sweeps, Taijuan Walker One-third of a season. Fifty-four games played. Twenty-seven wins. Twenty-seven losses. Each quantity seems well-earned. They’ve been as good as they’ve looked when they’ve won and as bad as they’ve looked when they’ve lost. They’re having two separate seasons in one. The Mets are the epitome of mediocrity. Befitting the finale of a series played a […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, Coors Field, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Alvarez, Memorial Day, Starling Marte, Stephen Nogosek, Tina Turner, Tommy Pham, Tylor Megill Saddled with the understanding that your team is not going to win them all, the best a fan can hope for is an optimal sorting out of the order of inevitable losses. Take the Mets-Cubs series just completed. After competing on a stratospheric high, as the Mets did on their last homestand, they were, because […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 100-Game Winners, Brett Baty, Carlos Carrasco, Cubs, Francisco Alvarez, Gary Sanchez, Leo Durocher, Mickey Lolich, Pete Alonso, Team History The 2023 Mets were expected to do big things. For the first 43 games of this season, they resisted those expectations. Then came last week: Games 44 through 48, each won by one run, each won after at some point trailing; each won as affirmation that the expectations were merited; each furnishing evidence that sometimes […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, Christopher Morel, Drew Smyly, Francisco Alvarez, Late Spring, Magic, Michael Fulmer, Moment of Silence, Pete Alonso, Soft Breezes, Steve Henderson, Turnarounds, Vida Blue In the spirit of the Baseball Writers Association of America members with whom I rubbed or at least grazed elbows Friday night, I humbly submit my ballot for Most Valuable Angle from the 10-9 ten-inning Mets win over the Guardians. 1) MY PRESENCE IN THE CITI FIELD PRESS BOX 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Arnold Hano, Brett Baty, Buck Showalter, Citi Kids, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Guardians, Interleague Play, Mark Vientos, New York Giants, Pete Alonso, Press Box Decorum I followed Thursday afternoon’s game from Citi Field as much as I possibly could, and it followed me almost but not fully everywhere I had to go. Thursday afternoons can be uncooperative that way. I had TV at the beginning and end, radio on and off in the middle, and pitches missed here and there. […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fabulous Thunderbirds, Field Of Dreams, Mood, Pete Alonso, Rays, Tylor Megill On May 9, 1972, it rained in New York, which, then as now, is an unfortunate occurrence when a baseball game is scheduled in the Metropolitan Area. The Mets were to play the Dodgers at Shea Stadium that Tuesday night, meaning that baseball game would have to be made up. The good news was the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Joey Lucchesi, M. Donald Grant, Max Scherzer, Michael Perez, Nationals Shenanigans, Rain, Team History, Willie Mays When the Mets’ 5-0 loss at Cincinnati completed its appointed rounds on SNY Thursday afternoon, the postgame show came on, with Todd Zeile seated as the designated authority on all things disappointing. He was a good choice for the job, seeing as how Zeile was right in the middle of disappointment aplenty as the 2001 […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, Incapable, Lifeless, The Five Stairsteps, Tim McCarver, Todd Zeile |
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