The Mets needed lengthy starting pitching in their Saturday afternoon makeup of Friday night’s snowout, since it was to be followed by a regularly scheduled Saturday night game, and they pretty much got it. Carlos Carrasco, in his first Coors Field start (and probably the first game he’s pitched on May 21 that was postponed […]
 
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 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Ottavino, Carlos Carrasco, Coors Field, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Drew Smith, Necessities, Patrick Mazeika, Seth Lugo, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Snow, Starling Marte, Unswept Pete Alonso just swung by to remind us that not every Met ending that oughta be happy winds up that way, nor do even the most promising of post-1986 Mets teams always play baseball like it oughta be. Or maybe Pete Alonso just swung — again. Last we saw him, he couldn’t help himself. It was […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Carrasco, Catchers, Chasen Shreve, Colin Holderman, Coping, Curried Chicken, Didn’t Have It, Francisco Lindor, Goodfellas, Injures, J.B. Smoove, James McCann, Jerry DiPoto, Mariners, More Like It, One-Run Defeats, Patrick Mazeika, Paul Sewald, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Triples, Tylor Megill What a strange game. The Mets and Mariners — those foes from so many past epics — met again under bottom-of-the-aquarium conditions, getting started late because of rain and squinting their way through the final innings because of fog. The meteorological strangeness was matched by plenty of the on-the-field variety, with Chris Bassitt looking frustrated with […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Munoz, Chasen Shreve, Chris Bassitt, Edwin Diaz, George Kirby, Jesse Winker, Mariners, Patrick Mazeika Great, there will actually be a season! Which means we have business to attend to — extending a slightly overdue welcome to 2021’s matriculating Mets, who are now in The Holy Books! (Background: I have three binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books by Greg, that contain a baseball card for every Met on the all-time […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Aaron Loup, Akeem Bostick, Albert Almora Jr., Anthony Banda, Baseball Cards, Billy McKinney, Brad Hand, Brandon Drury, Cameron Maybin, Carlos Carrasco, Chance Sisco, Figgs, Francisco Lindor, Geoff Hartlieb, Heath Hembree, Jacob Barnes, Jake Hager, Jake Reed, James McCann, Javier Baez, Jerad Eickhoff, Joey Lucchesi, Johneshwy Fargas, Jonahs, Jonathan Villar, Jordan Yamamoto, Jose Peraza, Kevin Pillar, Khalil Lee, Mason Williams, Nick Tropeano, Patrick Mazeika, Rich Hill, Robert Stock, Sean Reid-Foley, Stephen Tarpley, Taijuan Walker, The Holy Books, Thomas Szapucki, Tommy Hunter, Tommy Milone, Travis Blankenhorn, Trevor Hildenberger, Trevor May, Trevor Williams, Tylor Megill, Yennsy Diaz For eight innings, the highlight of the Mets’ Wednesday matinee in San Francisco was that I got to watch it as it began. That may sound like a lowlight from the perspective of the Mets’ five previous games/losses, but understand where I was coming from or at least where I was. I had taken my […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bunting, Chance Sisco, Eye Doctor’s Waiting Room Televisions, Jake Reed, Midweek Matinees, Patrick Mazeika, The Office The most delightful aspect of the 2021 Mets to date that hasn’t involved Jacob deGrom pitching and hitting has been the emergence of the self-anointed Bench Mob, the aggregation of heretofore part-timers who’ve produced plentifully when called on, which has also plentifully. Riding to our injury-riddled rescue in the grand tradition of Bambi’s Bandits, Hondo’s […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bench Mob, Chris Carter, Designated Hitter, Hamstrings, Injuries, Interleague Play, Jake Hager, Jeff McNeil, Jeremy Hefner, Jonathan Villar, Jose Peraza, Kevin Pillar, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Patrick Mazeika, Tomas Nido The Mets have played a fair number of snoozy low-scoring games this year, but on Tuesday they played a fun low-scoring one — a genuine pitchers’ duel, followed by a sequence of unlikely events, capped off by a satisfying cameo for one of the stranger secret weapons they’ve had in a long time. The pitchers’ duel […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Dom Smith, Freddy Galvis, John Means, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Marcus Stroman, Orioles, Patrick Mazeika, Unlikely Events, Walkoffs In the movie Thirteen Days, presidential advisor Kenny O’Donnell warns naval Commander William Ecker that when he leads a reconnaissance mission over Cuba to photograph evidence of missile bases on the island, it is imperative that his squad not be shot at. That’s not up to Ecker, of course, but O’Donnell’s message sinks in. President […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Bonilla, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Media, Nonsense, Patrick Mazeika, Raccoons, Rats, Thirteen Days, Tommy Hunter True confession time: Your recapper earns no accolades for being an attentive student of the game Wednesday night, dozing off before the conclusion of Game 1 (“Did they lose?” I asked Emily when roused) and remaining groggy and befuddled for a good chunk of Game 2. Just as well, since I figure we don’t particularly […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ali Sanchez, Cardinals, Doubleheaders, Ghosts, Jonathan Villar, Jordan Yamamoto, Kevin Pillar, Marcus Stroman, Patrick Mazeika, Paul DeJong, Tomas Nido Breaking news: Mets starting pitcher actually gets win! A Mets starter hadn’t done that in 19 games, tying a club record set in the less than sterling 1980 season. Seth Lugo said “no more” Saturday night, allowing just a solo homer to Rhys Hoskins over five innings and fanning eight. Of course, if Lugo’s starting that […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 2020 Mets, Dominic Smith, Edwin Diaz, Erasmo Ramirez, Juan Lagares, Michael Conforto, Patrick Mazeika, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Strange Events, Todd Frazier |
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