On Tuesday, the Chicago Cubs played their left-handed first baseman at third base. Boston’s starting pitcher allowed a home run to the first batter he faced, then pitched the entire rest of the game without allowing a hit. Last night, the Dodgers’ starter had a perfect game through eight innings and a no-hitter through nine, before […]
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Game Recap August 22: Nothing to see here
Mets News So this happened The Captain is in the lineup! #STLMets #Mets #LGM pic.twitter.com/GXrS7mNRlW — St. Lucie Mets (@stluciemets) August 22, 2017 And also this happened Mets gonna have a new lineup. Conforto has a thumb issue of some kind. — Marc Carig (@MarcCarig) August 22, 2017 All in all, a typical Mets news […]
Game recap August 21: Pollock-ed
It’s been a whirlwind of a week for those following the orange and blue. First, we said goodbye to Curtis Granderson, who was shipped off to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for right-handed reliever Jacob Rhame. Granderson was not only a key component in the success this team has found over the last few […]
Game recap August 20: Sunday bloody Sunday
WHO WON: The Miami not-Mets WHAT HAPPENED, A WEIRD START: Weird is the best way to describe Jacob deGrom’s start on Sunday afternoon. With eight strikeouts and no walks in 6.1 innings, you might think he shined – except there’s more to this story. deGrom gave up 10 hits and allowed five earned runs, three […]
Game recap August 19: Oh yeah, this is what winning is like
Going in to the season, everyone in baseball assumed the San Diego Padres would be the league’s worst team by a mile. After losing every game so far this week, the Mets began Saturday tied with those lowly Padres! The best thing for the Mets might be losing five or six games a week. Baseball’s […]
Game recap August 17: So close, yet never close enough
Yankees 7, Mets 5, Final The Mets went into last night’s Subway Series finale hoping to avoid only the second series sweep on the losing side in more than twenty years of the midsummer meet-ups. Better late than never: while it was still not to be, for eight innings the Mets seemed less in a […]
Game Recap August 15: Dom Smith homers, gets benched
Mets News OMG Travis Snider is a Met! Okay, so I’m older than 91 percent of BP Mets readers. Still, I have powerful memories of Sabermetric Unicorn Travis Snider. In 2006 as an 18-year-old in rookie ball, he hit .325/.412/.567. Promoted to the class-A Midwest League for his age-19 season, Snider continued to star, with […]
What You Need To Know: August 14
Monday Takeaway Remember last week, when the Mets traded away a veteran hitter, called up their top prospect, and suffered through a Rafael Montero start? This week was pretty much the same, give or take a few names. For one thing, the Mets traded Neil Walker to the Brewers. They also called up first baseman […]
Game recap August 12: A trade and, I guess, a game
“We still have inventory,” Sandy Alderson said after Saturday’s 3-1 loss to the Phillies. I’m not sure any reporters really wanted to talk to Alderson about another lousy game in a disappointing year. No, reporters were talking to Alderson about the Mets trading away Neil Walker to Milwaukee for a player to be named later. […]
Game recap August 11: Amed Rosario saves the day
Primer The Mets are bad. The Phillies are worse. At this time of the year, that leads to some pretty boring games, and the matchup of Seth Lugo and Nick Pivetta didn’t really do much to change that perception. On the other hand, there are plenty of prospects in the major leagues for mediocre teams at […]