What Happened, In A Sentence The Mets eventually strung some of their season-high 15 hits together and beat the Marlins 6-4. A Frustrating Beginning Miami scored first as Martin Prado launched a fastball that tailed over the plate for his first home run of the season. Bartolo Colon got himself in a bigger jam in […]
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Game recap June 3: Welcome home, Everyday Wilmer Flores
Noah Syndergaard and the Mets squared off against righty Tom Koehler and the Marlins in the first game of a three-game set in Miami. The Marlins, playing well despite the loss of Dee Gordon as their starting second baseman, sat only a game back of the Mets in the NL East standings coming into the […]
Terry Collins Is Afraid Of (Backup) Catchers
In Wednesday afternoon’s game against the Chicago White Sox, Terry Collins was faced with what looked like a simple choice: with a 1-0 lead, backup catcher Rene Rivera, who had the game’s lone RBI, but entered the day hitting .148/.281/.259 for the season and .210/.259/.329 for his career, came up with the bases loaded and […]
Game Recap June 1: deSpite deGrom, Mets Fall in 13 Innings
TL;DR It took nearly five hours, but the Mets lost 2-1 to the White Sox in 13 innings. There are two sides to baseball, run prevention and run scoring. When you only do one, sometimes you lose. That’s it. We’re breaking new ground here at Baseball Prospectus – Mets! The Big Finish This one wasn’t much […]
Game Recap May 31: Mat met Matz, Mets Melt Down
Executive Summary Steven Matz started strong but faltered in the sixth. A rare and spectacular Noah Syndergaard relief appearance could not prevent a Hansel Robles implosion. White Sox 6, Mets 4. Discussion and Analysis Like a pre-diagnosis Matt Harvey, Steven Matz was unable to get through the sixth inning. Which is a shame, because Matz’s […]
Steven Matz Just Wants You To Be Happy
The 2016 Mets have heretofore labored through an imperfect season. They’ve mashed the most taters in MLB, yet the offense is still generally terrible. Dan Warthen’s staff has been the third-best in the bigs–behind the Cubs and Washington–but Matt Harvey and (to a much lesser extent) Jacob deGrom are not pitching near the level we […]
Game recap May 30: Hello, Good Harvey, we haven’t seen you around these parts lately
WHO WON: The Memorial Day-themed camouflaged Mets WHAT HAPPENED, PITCHING IS FUN WHEN IT IS GOOD: For me, this game in general was fun to watch. Maybe that’s because I love pitching, and the return of good Matt Harvey gave this one an element of dueling aces. Speaking of Harvey’s return, it was exactly what […]
How We Would Fix Matt Harvey
One hundred and one MLB pitchers have thrown 50 or more innings in 2016. Matt Harvey has performed better than 10 of them. (All is not lost; one of those 10 is Jon Niese.) But wait! Dan Warthen believes he identified the flaw in Harvey’s delivery. It was patently obvious. What, you didn’t notice Harvey was collapsing his back […]
Game recap May 29: If you pretend this was just Clayton Kershaw dominating again, it’s a lot easier to handle
WHO WON: Clayton Kershaw and his other 8 pals in gray jerseys (I guess the Mets too, but in a weird ‘never have to face Kershaw again in the 2016 regular season’ kind of way) WHAT HAPPENED, AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE MEETS FIVE TOTALLY MOVABLE OBJECTS: For the second time this season, the Mets had the…we’ll […]
Game recap May 28: Visions of ’86 (we’re going to pretend the rest didn’t happen)
What Happened, In Two Sentences Noah Syndergaard was ejected without warning for throwing behind Chase Utley in the third inning. Utley retaliated with two home runs – including a grand slam – as the Dodgers won 9-1. Mets Finally Retaliate Against Utley After Chase Utley slid past the base and broke Ruben Tejada’s leg in […]