The Mets were hammered in their series opener against Miami on Friday night, but quite honestly, nobody really cared. David Wright appearing in a Major League baseball game for the first time since May 27, 2016, easily offset the disappointment of the Amazins’ 8-1 loss, and set the stage for what is sure to be a […]
Tag: Corey Oswalt
Game recap September 22: That’s baseball, Suzyn
The date is April 16, 2018, and the New York Mets have raced out to a blistering 12-3 start, good for a three-game lead in a seemingly wide-open NL East. The pitching staff is completely healthy and absolutely dominating opponents, the offense looks rejuvenated behind a resurgent Asdrubal Cabrera and Todd Frazier, and the Mets […]
Game recap September 15 – Ah, September baseball
In three September appearances, Corey Oswalt has allowed seven earned runs in just 5.2 innings, spanning two starts and a relief outing. The AL East-leading Red Sox were the latest team to take advantage of an inefficient Oswalt, who recorded just five outs despite throwing 61 pitches on the afternoon. Trouble found the 25-year-old immediately, […]
Game recap September 9: My guy
WHO WON: The Mets, who are suddenly good WHAT HAPPENED, WE’VE GOT CONFORTOOOO, ON A CLOUDY DAY: Michael Conforto is good again, and this is reason to rejoice. The lefty outfielder drove in four runs on Sunday, made some phenomenal plays on defense, and beat out a groundball to first. These are happy times — […]
Game recap September 4: The Real Jason Vargas
Primer Monday night was a frustrating but still enjoyable experience, because we had the pleasure of watching Jacob deGrom. Watching the best of the Mets’ three-ish homegrown aces is a reminder of the sort of potential this team had and still has. Tuesday, we got Jason Vargas, a reminder of why that potential has been and […]
Game recap August 26: Well, it wasn’t a sweep
The good It’s tough to find the positive in a 15-0 shutout, of which 14 of the runs were scored in the final two innings, but Steven Matz was a revelation in a truly ugly Sunday. The lefty tossed seven innings of one-run ball, faltering only when Juan Soto drove in a run on a […]
Game recap August 21: We want McNeil
Primer Looking at this game, what’s the hook? Why should you, the viewer, care about a bad team playing a mediocre team with two nondescript starters on the mound? These are the sort of questions I spend 15 minutes staring at a blank document debating at this point in the season. Anyway, Steven Matz got […]
Game recap August 16: This is why we can’t have nice things, because baseballs hit them in the hand
Game One: Mets 24, Phillies 4 Game Two: Phillies 9, Mets 6 Just over two weeks after an epic drubbing by Washington — where they lost by 21 runs on July 31 — the Mets saw things from the other side of the equation as they scored the most runs in franchise history, which included […]
Game recap August 11: O captain!
THE GOOD The Mets lost to a team below them in the standings? The further they can drop the better, as a couple of wins are seemingly meaningless with the team already out of playoff possibilities. David Wright is going out on a rehab assignment! In what’s practically been an entirely lost season for the […]
Game recap July 25: They’re not the worst!
The Mets beat the Padres by a score of 6-4 yesterday afternoon, capping off their first series win since May, which fittingly came against the only team in the National League with a worse record than them. By taking the series, the Mets kept themselves out of the bottom of the league standings, and actually opened up […]