In summary: The pitching was good until it wasn’t; the offense was never good. Mets lose 5-1. The good: Robert Gsellman is good! The SoCal native fit in perfectly to the Mets rotation in his first start on Sunday — both the hair and the slider. The hard-throwing righty was the victim of Terry Collins’ […]
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Game recap August 26: Silver Slugger Bartolo Colon
Coming off a series win against the Cardinals in St. Louis that kept their wild card chances on life support (rather than in the grave), the Mets started a ten-game home stand against the Phillies on Friday. Bartolo Colon started for the Mets opposite Phillies lefty Adam Morgan. Morgan, you may remember, was on the […]
Game recap August 25: Got the Wild Card teams right where they want them?
Sometimes baseball is hard to write about. This needn’t be because the game was uneventful – sometimes there’s just no clear thread linking the innings together, linking the plate appearances to one another with some sort of purpose. You’d think that in a game with 15 runs and one team continually breathing down the necks of […]
Game recap August 24: A flirtatious smile, a hint of hope, a reminder of reality
WHO WON: The red-and-white arched not-Mets WHAT HAPPENED, ALRIGHT, WHO MESSED WITH THE DIAL ON JACOB DEGROM’S BACK? That’s a real question, in case you were wondering, because Jacob DeGrom looked rather…uninspiring. When all was said and done, deGrom surrendered five runs across 4.2 innings, but that just scratched the surface. Three of the 12 hits […]
Curtis Granderson Gives The Mets Something to Cheer For
The 2016 season hasn’t turned out as planned. While Baseball Prospectus still gives the Mets an 11.8 percent chance of making the playoffs (before last night’s game), there are still at least three teams standing in the way of the second Wild Card spot. Couple that with listless play, and things don’t look good. Perhaps […]
Game recap August 21: Easy peasy lemon squeezy
THE RUNDOWN Yoenis Cespedes’s two-run blast was the only support that Noah Syndergaard needed, as Thor blanked the Giants offense for the 2-0 victory. ALL (BATS) QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Both Jeff Samardzija and Syndergaard came out dealing, setting down the other side in order in each of the first two innings fairly easily. […]
Game recap August 19: Well hey, at least Seth Lugo looked great
What Happened, In a Sentence: Seth Lugo did everything he could to stave off the Mets’ death spiral, but his teammates ran and threw their way to an 8-1 loss. One Foot Forward… If you missed last night’s game and just saw the score, your first guess would probably be Seth Lugo let the Mets […]
Game recap August 16: Scraping by on good hair and a nice smile
WHO WON: The blue and grey Mets WHAT HAPPENED, BATS, BLUNDERS, AND WELL-HIT BASEBALLS: Early on there wasn’t much offensive activity of note. The Mets tried to lead a charge in the second inning with Kelly Johnson and T.J. Rivera on base, however the Mets’ old nemesis—hitting with runners in scoring position—decided to rear its […]
Game Recap August 15: Colon and the Mets Snakebitten in the Desert
Arizona scored in six different innings off of Bartolo Colon and the New York bullpen as the Diamondbacks defeated the Mets 10-6 in the series opener on Monday night at Chase Field. After sweeping the Mets in a three-game set last week at Citi Field, the last-place Diamondbacks tallied 16 hits on a night where […]
Game recap August 13: Of pitcher wins and walkoffs
Entering the second of three games against the Padres on a four-game skid, the Mets looked to their most consistent starter in Jacob deGrom to climb back to .500 for the season. Jarred Cosart, the former Marlin sporting a 5.79 ERA on the season, started for the Padres. Prior to the game, the Mets sent […]