The struggles of the Mets’ starting pitching this season has been well-documented. Going into last night, the team’s starting pitcher ERA was 5.05, the third-worst mark in the majors. This is horrendous and unexpected, but we’ve talked about it enough. But I also stumbled upon something else yesterday. Do you want to see something frightening? […]
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Game recap June 23: Movable force, meet stoppable object
Primer Well, even if the Mets front office has left a lot to be desired recently, they at least can recognize a lost season. A day after getting swept in a four-game series by the Dodgers, the Mets made it known that their free agents to be are available. Jay Bruce, Curtis Granderson, Lucas Duda, […]
Game recap June 22: The wheels come off
Dodgers 6, Mets 3 The Mets could not get out of Los Angeles fast enough, but it seemed they needed to first plumb the depths of different ways to lose before they went, suffering a sweep to the Dodgers in a game that wasn’t so much a replay of the 2015 playoffs (“Clash of the […]
Game recap June 19: Weird baseball
Baseball is weird. On a night that Clayton Kershaw, the de facto best pitcher in baseball, was staked to a 7-0 lead, we saw a below average team claw their way back into a game that they had no business clawing back into. Unfortunately, the Mets still came up empty, dropping 10-6 to the Los […]
Game recap June 17: As good as over
Back when Davey Johnson was managing the Nationals to their first playoff appearance, they played a bunch of close games with the Mets. But those games never felt too close. Those Nationals were one of the league’s best run prevention teams. Washington has acquired more talent since 2012, but one look at their bullpen and […]
Game recap June 16: Fading hope
Primer With the slim bit of hope remaining for the 2017 season hanging in the balance, Steven Matz faced off against Max Scherzer in the second game of the Mets’ four-game set with the Nationals. Matz made his season debut in Atlanta last week, tossing seven innings of one-run ball and showing no signs of […]
Game recap June 12: deGromination
Just when you think you’re out, this team finds a way to pull you back in. The Mets defeated the Chicago Cubs tonight by a score of 6-1, notching their fourth win in a row and bringing them to 29-33 on the season. Monday night was a textbook effort on how the Mets should operate […]
Cubs series preview: June 12-14
I’ve lived in my Los Angeles neighborhood for 10 years, and this spring was the first time I saw anyone wearing a Cubs hat. It’s not like there’s a ton of Dodgers loyalty in my neighborhood either. Mets apparel was actually the second most common until suddenly people are hopping on the Cubs bandwagon. With […]
Game recap June 10 (Game 2): The Comeback Kid
When Noah Syndergaard went down with his lat injury, the Mets knew that eventually Steven Matz and Seth Lugo should be ready to pick up the slack. In the meantime, they tried Rafael Monetro, Tommy Milone, and Tyler Pill. It must have been awfully tempting to rush Matz back to plug a hole in the […]
Game recap June 10 (Game 1): Yo comes home
This season, if not all of the other seasons before, has taught us that a win is a win and a loss is a loss. The most painful collapses and the most heartwarming walkoffs all look like ones and zeros at the end of the season. Of course, that’s easier said than done. A 6-1 […]