Most of Sunday afternoon’s game was must-see TV: a taut duel between starting pitchers you didn’t think had it in them. Rick Porcello had his best start as a Met, looking like the pitcher he was before his baffling, seemingly self-inflicted transformation into a pinata. The Braves’ Kyle Wright was fabulous too, throwing strikes and […]
 
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 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2020 Mets, Failsons, Jeff Wilpon, Jeurys Familia, Kyle Wright, Ronald Acuna Jr., Travis d'Arnaud The first win after one of those lengthy losing streaks always makes me feel a little sheepish. The Mets won. A spot of bother aside, it wasn’t even all that tense. And this after you spent five days being snarly and surly. Wasn’t that silly? Well, of course it was. But my goodness, it really looked like […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Jared Hughes, Jeurys Familia, Mike Soroka, Shifts, SNY, Travis d'Arnaud Some unusual Met things you’re pretty sure you’ve lived through before. There’s a lot of that going around, actually. In the case of the Mets blowing a large lead when they’ve posted double-digit runs, that’s too familiar a sensation to count in the camp of “Gosh, I’m certain this has happened before, but I just […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chasen Shreve, Dellin Betances, Long, Lousy, Rick Porcello, Team History, Travis d'Arnaud Welcome to the eighth chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Beltran, Ike Davis, Mets of the 2010s, Ruben Tejada, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler Travis d’Arnaud once said something for de facto public consumption maybe only I caught. Perhaps Travis would appreciate my use of the past tense of catch in the previous sentence. He’d probably appreciate more “will catch” in the sentence that begins the next paragraph of his career, wherever […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Catchers, Injuries, Mets Catchers, Travis d'Arnaud The Mets lost to the Brewers at Citi Field on Saturday night, 8-6, in an ugly game made briefly attractive before it reverted to hideous. Noah Syndergaard pitched badly, Travis d’Arnaud caught badly and Jeurys Familia thought badly. In between, Pete Alonso provided a powerful antidote to the mounting blahs, but nothing anybody did well could overcome […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, 1969 Mets, 2019 Mets, Brewers, Internal Affairs, Jeurys Familia, Noah Syndergaard, Pete Alonso, Team History, Travis d'Arnaud The 25-minute sogginess delay at the outset. The third starting catcher in three starts. The unfamiliar opponent from the uninvited league. The ballpark and broadcast advertisements for a namesake casino that misidentifies his number. The odds that it had to happen eventually. The species of which every […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ends of All Good Things, Home Runs, Jacob deGrom, Pete Alonso, Quality Starts, Streaks, Travis d'Arnaud, Twins Remember that bruise on Kevin Plawecki’s mitt hand from Wednesday night’s game, the one that was declared just a bruise once x-rays were reported as negative? You will when you look for Plawecki behind the plate and see no trace of him. The hand, we learned from the Post’s Mike Puma Friday morning, is broken from […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Ruiz, Catchers, Dan Rather, Injuries, J.T. Realmuto, Johnny Monell, Jose Lobaton, Kevin Plawecki, Mets Catchers, Miguel Montero, Mike Piazza, Ron Hodges, Team History, Tomas Nido, Travin d'Arwecki, Travis d'Arnaud We begin, as we apparently sometimes do, in June 2014 in Miami. Zack Wheeler‘s best career start remains the one he turned in against these same Marlins that June 19. (Though we really are talking laundry: Justin Bour is the lone holdover from that squad.) In that game Wheeler faced the minimum 24 batters over the […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Heaney, Don Mattingly, Injuries, Jarlin Garcia, Marlins, Pitchers, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler The second chapter of the perfect season completed itself Saturday, confirming that every good vibe we felt on Thursday was accurate. The Mets are 2-0 after beating St. Louis at Citi Field, 6-2. Clearly, they’ve gotten the hang of baseball and need only repeat everything they’ve done […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Al Weis, Alberto Castillo, Danny Heep, Endy Chavez, Jacob deGrom, Joe McEwing, Juan Lagares, Matt Franco, Opening Day, Opening Day Lineups, Phillip Evans, Players Who Didn't Start on Opening Day, Ray Knight, Rod Kanehl, Team History, Teddy Martinez, Travis d'Arnaud |
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