The Mets (45-51) begin a ten-game road trip on Monday night at spacious Petco Park against Andy Green’s San Diego Padres (43-55). New York has won four of five, their streak snapped on Sunday with a 3-2 loss to Oakland. The Padres return home after taking three of four in San Francisco. While these two […]
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Game recap July 21: Michael Conforto Home Run Hour
Primer The struggling Steven Matz, following up two starts in which he allowed 12 runs in 5.1 innings, took the mound against the rebuilding Oakland Athletics. Paul Blackburn, a rookie running a 3.66 K/9 and surviving on a .230 BABIP, opposed the Mets. It’s tough to dress up a matchup between two mediocre pitchers (probably a […]
Athletics Series Preview July 21-23
The Mets (43-50) welcome the Oakland Athletics (43-52) to Flushing for the first time in over three years, at a time where trade winds are blowing strongly around both clubs. Only 6.5 games off the pace in a weak American League Wild Card field, Oakland has already parted ways with key relievers Ryan Madson and […]
Rockies Series Preview July 14-16
The Mets host Colorado this weekend for a three-game series to kick off the unofficial second half of the season, one which figures to see significant roster turnover with Terry Collins’ club facing double-digit deficits in both the division and Wild Card races. The Rockies come out of the All-Star break with a rather firm […]
Game Recap July 3: Two Bad Bullpens, But Only One Bad Team
While the Mets’ 2017 season has basically just been one endless descent in the standings, the one argument constantly raised in favor of the Mets still having a chance has been the much-maligned Nationals’ bullpen, which has been the anchor holding the team down, and the only reason they’re still in the same galaxy as […]
Nationals series preview: July 3-5
Whether or not you believe the Mets have a chance at the playoffs this season (they don’t), this three-game Nationals series is as close to a final bell as you could hope for. New York currently sits 9.5 games behind the Nats in the East (and two games behind the Braves) and 8.5 behind the […]
Game Recap June 28: A Breath of Fresh Air
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? […]
Marlins Series Preview June 27-29
After dropping all four in Los Angeles against the NL West-leading Dodgers, the Mets (34-41) rebounded by sweeping the lowly Giants at AT&T Park over the weekend. New York never trailed in the three-game set in which they set a franchise record for home runs in a calendar month. They look to carry some of […]
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 […]
Dodgers series preview June 19-22
At least the Mets won a game before their cross-country flight; I imagine it would not be fun to get swept, then fly for five and a half hours. It will be interesting to see how much things have settled down between the Mets and Dodgers since Chase Utley broke Ruben Tejada’s leg in the […]