Zack Wheeler struck out eleven Phillies in the course of throwing seven shutout innings Tuesday night at Citi Field, which was extremely nice and fairly necessary. Wheeler’s a pitcher, and it’s his job to pitch very well. Replicating his trajectory of 2018, except sooner, he’s gone from shaky […]
 
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 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bartolo Colon, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Rhame, Jeremy Hefner, Johan Santana, Matt Harvey, Mets of the 2010s, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers Hitting, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Team History, Todd Frazier, Zack Wheeler Bryce Harper arranged his own early exit. Steven Matz decided to stay a while longer this time. And Mark Carlson … well, he didn’t know if pitches were coming or going. For the Mets, Matz was the happy headline. A start after recording not even a solitary out against these same Phillies, he acquitted himself far […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Jake Arrieta, Mark Carlson, Steven Matz, Umpires I spent the last five days in Chicago, getting my Star Wars on at McCormick Place and in the hotel bar. So my Mets attention was fitful and scattershot. I saw news of the first night’s events in amazing seats behind the plate at Wrigley Field (plenty of good options available when it’s still frigid), […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Baseball Cards, Guillermo Mota, Jon Niese, Jonahs, Jose Vizcaino, Paul Sewald, Ramon Ramirez, Steven Matz Steven Matz went deep. Amed Rosario went deeper. Pete Alonso went deepest of all. Edwin Diaz made certain we didn’t plumb the depths. And that is how the New York Mets took sole possession of first place twelve games into the 2019 season, which clinches the Mets absolutely nothing. […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, Amed Rosario, Braves, Edwin Diaz, First Place, Freddie Freeman, Homers Hit as Hard as Hell, Jonny Venters, National League East, Pete Alonso, Steven Matz, SunTrust Park You want home runs at Citi Field, perennially notorious as a launching pad for next to nothing? Met home runs, that is? Then slate your Saturday dates for when many are thinking that it would sure be delicious to have a ballgame with lunch. An in-depth exploration of all […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Home Runs, J.D. Davis, Keon Broxton, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Robinson Cano, Saturday Afternoons, Steven Matz On Sunday afternoon the Mets and Nationals played their last game against each other in 2018, and it turned out to be an ordeal: more than four hours of bad baseball played in a continuous rain before irritated Nats fans. The Mets bashed not-ready-for-prime-time Nats pitchers about for eight runs, the Nats did the same […] You don’t have to be from east of Queens to know Long Island’s Own Steven Matz can do only so much for us. Tuesday night in Philadelphia, LIOSM did more than Mets fans from Montauk to Great Neck (and beyond) could have possibly asked.
Perhaps it was Mets Sensory Overload having gotten to me — Jay Horwitz’s expansive valedictory Wednesday afternoon; the practically literally endless rain delay Wednesday night; David Wright finally saying “uncle” to reality and telling us early Thursday afternoon when we could expect to see him play next and last — that […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bullpen, David Wright, Don Mattingly, Endings, Expectations, Jason Vargas, Jay Horwitz, Michael Conforto, Pitchers Hitting, Steven Matz, Todd Frazier, Tomas Nido, Young MC The independent Atlantic League, best known in Metsopotamian circles as base of operations for Buddy Harreslon’s Long Island Ducks, includes a team called the Road Warriors. You can’t go to one of their home games because they don’t have any. They are literally a travel team, existing […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Atlantic League, Corona, Daniel Zamora, Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Drew Smith, Eric Hanhold, Ghastly Home Record, Road Warriors, Shea Stadium, Steven Matz, The 7 Train, Tyler Bashlor It’s September 1, 2018. The Mets entered the month 59-75, 15 games removed from any stratum of playoff action. The kind of context that gives September its juice eludes us. We have an individual honor to root for where Jacob deGrom is concerned. We have an unfortunate […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Eric Hanhold, Pennant Race, September, Steven Matz, Team History, The Mets Subconscious |
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