Over the past few days, we’ve had a theme here at BP Mets of running game recaps with acronyms in the headlines. Because memes are never fun until they’re solidly beaten a mile into the ground, and also because I was made in a factory and am desperate to fit in with the cool kids, […]
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Game Recap August 29: FML
Since August 26, we’ve recapped RIP, TKO and BOGO here at BP Mets. I’m pretty sure FML is the next acronym in the sequence. (It was either that or GIGO.) The Mets’ week started with the unpleasant news that David Wright couldn’t play one rehab game without suffering so much pain that he had to shut […]
Reds series preview August 29-31
A three-game series between the Mets and the Reds is an exercise in futility, two teams with nothing to lose but their last thread of dignity. It’ll be a blast. When and Where Game 1: Tuesday @ 7:10 p.m. EST (TV: SNY; RADIO: 710 WOR, ESPN Deportes) Game 2: Wednesday @ 7:10 p.m. EST (TV: SNY; RADIO: […]
Mets Connections: Cincinnati Reds
While the Reds are clearly rebuilding and the Mets are hopefully just reloading, the two teams are at a similar point in their season in which they have jettisoned most, if not all, of their tradable veteran assets. They have turned to the “let the young guys play” portion of the season, otherwise known as […]
What You Need to Know: August 28
Monday Takeaway If it’s true that “the more, the merrier,” then the Mets’ DL is partying like it’s 1999. Posterior capsule tears, compressed ulnar nerves, torn ulnar nerves, stress fractures, oblique strains, and countless other maladies have decimated the Mets this season. Their pitching staff is in shambles – Zack Wheeler, Matt Harvey, and Steven […]
Game recap August 27: BOGO
Sunday Mets games are a disaster. Games against the Nationals are a disaster. The Mets, short most of their starting rotation, almost every veteran and their two good outfielders, are a disaster. Yet here we are, on the other side of a split Sunday doubleheader. The offense (huh?) started early in Game 1 as Brandon […]
Game recap August 26: TKO
Part of why we love baseball is the feeling that we can’t fully predict anything. Then there are games like Saturday, where the outcome felt like it was decided in the first inning. Asdrubal Cabrera got bad coaching and was easily thrown out at home. Robert Gsellman and Amed Rosario’s mistakes in the field led […]
Game recap August 26: RIP Cespedes
The Mets had already scored once in the top of the first when Dom Smith singled off pitcher A.J. Cole’s glove. Yoenis Cespedes tried to turn on the jets to score the Mets’ second run. In another cruel twist for 2017, Cespedes immediately started limping. He hopped his way to home plate, but it didn’t […]
Nationals series preview August 25 – 27
In what was supposed to a series between two teams vying for the NL East, this four-game series between the Mets and the Nationals has become instead one team coasting to the postseason and another trying to trick fans into coming to the ballpark. The Nats are good. The Mets, quite simply, are not. When […]
Game recap August 24: RIP Conforto
Diamondbacks 3, Mets 2 Final The Mets lost to the Diamondbacks on getaway day as they head off for a 10-game road trip to nowhere. That the road trip starts in Washington is painfully fitting; they can watch Daniel Murphy carve up his former team and, as he circles the bases, perhaps ask their old […]