Yeah! Luis Torrens! The backup catcher thrust into near-everyday action is the hero in the bottom of the eighth, rescuing the Mets with a double all the way down the left field line, scoring Brandon Nimmo from second, salvaging an inning that nearly went by the wayside on the basepaths, breaking a tie, and positioning […]
 
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If Monday night’s game had happened in late May or June, I think I would have fallen all over myself calling it taut and crisp, maybe with a side of hard-fought and close-run. And I don’t know, maybe you called it those things while on your couch. Or, God forbid, while peering around you at a […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Cold, Danny Young, Francisco Lindor, Jose Butto, Jose Siri, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Ryne Stanek, Schedules, Tyrone Taylor Friday night’s game ended with the sweetest of words. Am I referring to “Mets win” or to “put it in the books?” To quote the tyke from the Internet meme, “Why not both?” On Thursday the Mets did a lot of things right — hitters refused to expand the strike zone and heretofore suspect relievers pitched […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Apple TV+, Edwin Diaz, Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Rob Drake, Ryne Stanek, Tylor Megill, Uniforms The Mets’ How We Spent Our Winter Vacation essay can be produced in succinct fashion: “We did some signing. We did some trading. We did some retaining.” Given who they signed in December and who they retained in February, that’s a dozen words worthy of a pretty high grade. Free agents and player swaps are what […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, Ed Charles, Jesse Winker, Jose Iglesias, Kevin Mitchell, Not The Same, OMG, Pete Alonso, Ray Knight, Retentions, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, The Years After, Uniforms Oh, it was a fun year. Such a fun year! The fuel light came on and the engine quit a little ways short of the Promised Land, but what a joyride until then! We got 34 new Mets, five of them making their MLB debuts. Some look like pieces of the future, others remind us […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Adrian Houser, Alex Young, Baseball Cards, Ben Gamel, Christian Scott, Cole Sulser, Danny Young, Dedniel Nunez, Eddy Alvarez, Eric Orze, Harrison Bader, Huascar Brazoban, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, Jesse Winker, Joe Hudson, Joey Wendle, Jorge Lopez, Jose Iglesias, Julio Teheran, Luis Severino, Luis Torrens, Luisangel Acuna, Matt Festa, Michael Tonkin, Pablo Reyes, Paul Blackburn, Phil Maton, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, The Holy Books, Ty Adcock, Tyler Jay, Tyrone Taylor, Yohan Ramirez, Zack Short Thursday night I came home from Game Four of the National League Championship Series resigned to the 2024 Mets season being imminently over. Friday morning I awoke thinking only that there’d be a baseball game come late afternoon and that the Mets would be playing in it, and between the regular season and the postseason, […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Postseason, Alive, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Winker, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Ryne Stanek, Starling Marte, The Temptations Eight pitches. They were the first sign that Monday afternoon’s Game 2 might go better than Sunday’s steamrolling. Happily, they weren’t the last. Leading off against Ryan Brasier, the first man in a parade of Dodger relievers, Francisco Lindor worked a 2-1 count, then fouled off four sliders and fastballs. Brasier, possibly a little frustrated to see […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Postseason, Anthony Banda, Both Mike Marshalls, Brent Honeywell, Clayton Kershaw, Daniel Murphy, Dodgers, Edgardo Henriquez, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Freddie Feeman, Jesse Winker, Jorge Lopez, Kike Hernandez, Landon Knack, Mark Vientos, Max Muncy, Mookie Betts, Phil Maton, Ryan Brasier, Ryne Stanek, Ryne Stanelk, Sean Manaea, Shohei Ohtani, Starling Marte, Teoscar Hernandez, Tommy Edman As I was getting out of my uniform, Jerry Koosman, whose locker stood next to mine, was slipping into his street clothes. “Wrap it up tomorrow, Koos,” I said. “I don’t want to go back to Baltimore. That place makes Fresno look like Paris.” “I’ll get ’em,” Jerry said. “I don’t want to go there either.” 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Mendoza, Confidence, Francisco Lindor, Grimace, Hayden Sanger, Hayden Senger, Jesse Winker, Jose Iglesias, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Phil Maton, Replay Review, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, Starling Marte, Stevie Wonder, Stomach Pit, Tom Seaver, Tyrone Taylor It was the ninth inning against the Phillies, 10 days ago, and ESPN’s little win probability thing (a sop to gamblers, but that’s another post) was making me insane. It said the Phillies had an 8% chance of coming back to beat the Mets, which was obviously wrong. Obviously and deliberately and nefariously wrong. I didn’t […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Ashby, Brewers, Brice Turang, ESPN, Freddy Peralta, J.D. Martinez, Jackson Chourio, Jesse Winker, Joel Payamps, Jose Butto, Jose Iglesias, Luis Severino, Mark Vientos, Ryne Stanek, Starling Marte, Tyrone Taylor, Willie Adames Baseball, I’ve long insisted, is humanity’s acme of artistic expression. But that’s not to say every game is a work of art. Whatever that was that the Mets and Blue Jays foisted on us tonight would definitely not qualify. It was a mess, with Tylor Megill mowing down anonymous Blue Jay recruits (and a morose-looking Vladimir […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Danny Young, Ed Kranepool, Eddy Alvarez, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Jose Butto, Leo Jimenez, Pablo Reyes, Ryne Stanek, Tylor Megill |
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