THE RUNDOWN After an ugly start, the Mets give the Brewers a late scare, but it wasn’t enough to overcome two critical errors and Steven Matz’s worst outing since his first game of the season. A SLOPPY BEGINNING After Curtis Granderson grounded out to second to start the game, the Mets got their first baserunner tellingly when Aaron […]
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Game recap June 10: A comedy of errors
After a truly horrendous start to the season, Matt Harvey bounced back with a 0.64 ERA in his past two starts and looked to extend his recent resurgence against the Brewers. Junior Guerra, a 31-year-old rookie with a 3.61 ERA claimed off waivers from the White Sox this offseason, started for the Brewers. Alejandro De […]
Game Recap June 9: Started With a Bang, Ended With a Whimper
With the third-lowest scoring offense in the majors, the Mets’ five-run performance on Thursday night in Milwaukee seemed much more explosive than its 1.29 runs above their season average would suggest. Coupled with an outing by Bartolo Colon that can be best described as Bartolian in both stat line and surprisingly agile playmaking, the team appears […]
Who We Believe Will Be on the 25-Man Roster Come August… But Isn’t Now
Travis d’Arnaud: rotator cuff inflammation. Lucas Duda: lower back stress fracture. David Wright: frogs, boils, locusts, darkness for three days. Not only are the Mets down three position players, they’re missing arguably their three most important ones. After all, Juan Lagares is a rather studly fourth outfielder. But the team’s infield depth was such a weakness entering […]
Game recap June 4: The replacements
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
What We’ve Learned From One Quarter of the 2016 Season
As Baseball Prospectus co-founder and current Newsletter/Sports Illustrated writer Joe Sheehan says, there’s little point in analyzing a baseball season until you’ve seen 40 games. At that point in the 2016 season, Mets fans would have cried to learn they’d be 1.5 games behind the tanking Phillies. Yet, four games above .500 and only 2.5 games out of first […]
Game recap May 21: Mets walk off on David Wright’s heroics
What Happened, In One Sentence: David Wright swung on a 3-0 count with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, lining a fastball to right-center for a walkoff 5-4 win. Bats Run Hot and Cold Early: Curtis Granderson ambushed a mistake fastball right down the middle for a leadoff home run. Two batters […]