Friday night’s game was an Earl Weaver special — the Mets scored eight times in the first, then slowly pulled away. It was one of those games you think you’d want every night, because who doesn’t like a laugher that reveals itself as such within the first half an hour? In reality, though, you wouldn’t. […]
 
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With the possible exception of Angel Hernandez, moral failings are undetectable after the fourteenth inning. They don’t call it “free baseball” only because conductors don’t come around to collect a step-up fare (though I can’t imagine Rob Manfred hasn’t contemplated implementing such a revenue-generating opportunity and labeling […]  18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adeiny Hechavarria, Angel Hernandez, Chris Flexen, Extra Innings, Jeff McNeil, Late Night Rationalizations, Miller Park, Robert Gsellman, Ryan Braun, Seth Lugo, Zack Wheeler Zachary Wheeler gets his pitch count risin’ Jason Vargas sees the order twice ‘n’ Jake deGrom is a Cy Young winner 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1-0 wins, Buzz Capra, Don Cardwell, Jerry Koosman, Jesse Winker, Maude, Nino Espinosa, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers Hitting, Ray Sadecki, Singular Feats, Team History, Tyler Mahle, Zack Wheeler Zack Wheeler had a bad inning, not a full-game meltdown but an uneasy, Leiteresque mix of wildness and poor BABIP luck. That bad inning was enough to put the Mets in a 4-0 hole, but then Tanner Roark couldn’t get anybody out either. The Mets crept to 4-2 and then Roark became the latest opponent […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jesse Winker, Jeurys Familia, Reds, Todd Frazier, Uniforms, Zack Wheeler 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 […] 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 Wednesday’s matinee against the Phillies was simultaneously an excellent baseball game and one about which there doesn’t seem to be a lot to say at first glance: Zack Wheeler was good, but Jake Arrieta was a little better. Wheeler gave up solo homers to Scott Kingery and Cesar Hernandez, while Arrieta surrendered one to Michael Conforto, […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hector Neris, Jake Arrieta, Keon Broxton, Maikel Franco, Ted Barrett, Umpires, Zack Wheeler During Spring Training you might have noticed Brodie Van Wagenen was enlisting special advisors left and Wright: Captain Dave; Al Leiter; John Franco; Jessica Mendoza. You hadn’t seen so many advisors being deployed since the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Since special advice is so in Met vogue, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Brandon Nimmo, David Wright, Dominic Smith, Gulf of Tonkin, Jeff McNeil, Jessica Mendoza, John Franco, Mickey Callaway, Pete Alonso, Robinson Cano, Special Advisors, Zack Wheeler Sunday was sunny and warm, one of those days where spring tells you that despite recent events, the world will soon be habitable on a more or less regular basis. Emily and I had worked through all manner of errands and items on our separate to-do lists, so we decided that … we could go to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bullpen, Citi Field, Food, Lack of Food, Luis Avilan, Michael Conforto, Nationals, Pete Alonso, Tim Peterson, Walks, Zack Wheeler My philosophy on first losses of seasons, particularly if they’re not first games of seasons, is they’re permissible to the point where they are almost welcome to occur. Get one out of the way so it can be recalled that when they transpire, our hearts will go […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Card Dreams, First Loss of the Season After a Win, Justin Wilson, Naps, Pete Alonso, Trea Turner, Zack Wheeler 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 […] |
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