After the New York Mets defeated the Miami Marlins 4-2 Monday night, a tweet by The Ringer’s Sean Fennessey caught my eye and summed up exactly how I was feeling. “This Mets season feels so good already, which likely means it will go bad in fantastic, operatic fashion. Like ‘Team plane flies into an alternate […]
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Game recap April 7: Don’t look now, but Mets off to best start since 2006
After a less than stellar debut outing that resulted in the Mets’ only loss of the season thus far, Steven Matz returned to the mound Saturday looking like a man with something to prove. The Mets sent Matz out to face Nationals left-hander Gio Gonzalez, who’s enjoyed a great deal of success against the Mets […]
Game recap April 5: This is so crazy, it just might work
Mets 8, Nationals 2, Final Taking walks, hitting long balls, gutsy pitching and a solid bullpen all converged to see the Mets ruin the home opener of division rivals Washington. If you squint, tilt your head, and forget about last year, you can start to believe again. Series like these with powerhouse teams are the […]
Game recap April 4: Is Facebook cool again?
I created my Facebook account in 2010, when it was the place where all the cool kids were; I could log in and see what all my friends were up to and what pages they were “becoming a fan” of and what their status updates were. Kids and adolescents could legitimately spend hours a day on Facebook […]
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 […]
Game recap March 31: The injury bug is back
Mets 6, Cardinals 2, final Thursday’s Opening Day win went about as well as Mickey Callaway could’ve hoped for: a dominant start by Noah Syndergaard, an offense that produced nine runs on twelve hits, and no injuries to report. The win reaffirmed the line of thinking held by Met fans all throughout the offseason; keep […]
Game recap March 29: We’re back, baby
Mets 9, Cardinals 4, final As our intrepid leader said, we survived the winter. But like the overcast, chilly weather, Opening Day started on a somber note with the news that Mets legend Rusty Staub had passed away. Even without the loss of a good man, few fanbases move through the season with equal parts […]
Game Recap August 29: FML
Since August 26, we’ve recapped RIP, TKO and BOGO here at BP Mets. I’m pretty sure FML is the next acronym in the sequence. (It was either that or GIGO.) The Mets’ week started with the unpleasant news that David Wright couldn’t play one rehab game without suffering so much pain that he had to shut […]
Game recap August 26: RIP Cespedes
The Mets had already scored once in the top of the first when Dom Smith singled off pitcher A.J. Cole’s glove. Yoenis Cespedes tried to turn on the jets to score the Mets’ second run. In another cruel twist for 2017, Cespedes immediately started limping. He hopped his way to home plate, but it didn’t […]
Game recap August 24: RIP Conforto
Diamondbacks 3, Mets 2 Final The Mets lost to the Diamondbacks on getaway day as they head off for a 10-game road trip to nowhere. That the road trip starts in Washington is painfully fitting; they can watch Daniel Murphy carve up his former team and, as he circles the bases, perhaps ask their old […]