Braves 12, Mets 4 Final Just when the good feelings seem to be carrying Mets fans aloft, gravity pulls everyone back to Earth. The improbably ascendant Mets confronted the ongoing enigma that is their fallen ace as Matt Harvey dug an early hole the team could not climb out of, and they lost the opening […]
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BP Mets Unfiltered: Five years later, Strasburg is better (but we’ll always have that night)
Five years ago today, the Mets beat the Nationals, 7-1. The Mets improved to 8-7 as Ike Davis and Lucas Duda each treated the Friday night home crowd to two home runs. Somehow the game feels like it happened yesterday, and simultaneously, a million years ago. The box score doesn’t indicate a game that would warrant […]
Game recap April 14: It had to happen at some point
Brewers 5, Mets 1, final The unimaginable has happened, folks, as the New York Mets finally lost a baseball game. After Friday night’s thrilling 6-4 victory over the Brewers extended the winning streak to nine, the Mets sent Matt Harvey to the hill Saturday in search of number ten. Milwaukee sent out staff ace Chase […]
Game recap April 8: Surging Mets complete statement sweep in D.C.
It’s dangerous to put too much stock in an early April series, but what the Mets just accomplished in D.C. this weekend certainly sent shots over the Nationals’ bow. New York’s 6-5 win in 12 innings on Sunday night completed a three-game sweep against their arch rivals, but the way the Mets won was indicative […]
What if Matt Harvey is good again?
Call me Charlie Brown and give me back my football. What if this version of Matt Harvey, reboot No. 12358, is good? What if he’s reinvented himself, once again, away from a power pitcher and away from a finesse pitcher and into just a guy who gets outs. What if that’s enough? No one knew what […]
Game recap April 3: It’s raining, it’s Reyes, the man at short is…bad at baseball
Primer It may not have been snowing, but the weather certainly wasn’t pleasant as the Mets got set to play the Phillies for the first time this season. Matt Harvey took the mound in 40 degree weather with a fine mist coming done, as the rest of New York wistfully wished for spring to just hurry […]
Matt Harvey and the 162-game memory
Matt Harvey gets to start over. Most of us don’t get that chance. We’re stuck with our lives, with our jobs and our apartments and our choices. We talk about a new life, about moving to Spain and opening a bookshop or to Australia and running a bar. But we don’t. We stay in our […]
Game recap September 29: Only two more of these to go
Primer The Mets are bad. The Phillies are worse. Ben Lively is mediocre (bordering on bad). Matt Harvey is worse. Both teams are better served by losing. It’s late season baseball at the bottom of the standings, folks, so get excited. Game Recap In what is probably (hopefully) his last series in a Mets uniform, […]
Game recap September 23: Only eight more of these to go
Near the end of the classic Simpsons episode “Homer the Vigilante,” burglar Molloy claims that he has buried all of his stolen treasure under a big T. Naturally, all the residents of Springfield scramble to find the treasure. All they find is a briefcase with a note that there is no treasure and Molloy has […]
Game recap September 18: Matt Harvey is bad now
Primer It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these. The distraction of starting a Ph.D. and moving back to my native NYC has been rather nice, giving me a multitude of excuses to duck out on watching a bad Mets team drag the corpse of their season across the finish line. It’s always […]