The Braves beat the Mets, 4-2. Wilmer Flores short-circuited an inning by ill-advisedly trying to take second on a little bobble in center by Ronald Acuna Jr. He was safe, giving the Mets runners on second and third with one out, until the umps huddled and ruled he was in fact out, leaving the Mets […]
 
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 9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Disappointment, Garbage Time, Wilmer Flores In the ninth inning of Monday’s nightcap, which if memory serves ended about an hour ago if it’s not in fact still going on, Braves pinch-hitter Dustin Peterson tried to take first base on ball three. The various onlookers laughed; so did I. It had been a long, often ridiculous day and night that by […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ramos, Braves, Doubleheaders, Hansel Robles, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Luis Guillorme, Rain Delays Remember when Jose Reyes not getting hits and Matt Harvey not getting outs were the Mets’ only pressing problems? Good times. The Reyes some of us stubbornly love and remember returned Saturday night in Atlanta, tweeting playfully “Jose Reyes will […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, Braves, Bullpen, Dave Kingman, Hadji the Cat, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Long Season, Matt Harvey In any year your team will win some classic nailbiters, ones you’d like to bottle to break out for a baseball newbie ready for his or her first game. Your team will also win some dopey games, which come in a number of flavors: 4-1 snoozers, 11-2 trashfests in which only one team seems to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Annoying, Braves, Noah Syndergaard, Robert Gsellman, Sun Trust Park, Tomas Nido, Yoenis Cespedes Todd Frazier is officially a Met! Which means Mike Moustakas isn’t! News like this demands exclamation points late in an ellipsis kind of winter. Yet I am delighted enough to punctuate with enthusiasm, not so much because Frazier is a name-brand free agent who’s signed for only two years (I generally fall for those, regardless of […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, 2016 Mets, A's, Adrian Gonzalez, Alejandro Pena, Astros, Austin Jackson, Bob Aspromonte, Braves, Cardinals, Chris Chambliss, Cubs, Davey Johnson, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Don Baylor, Eric Hosmer, Felix Millan, Fernando Tatis, Frank Cashen, George Bamberger, George Stone, Gerald Williams, Giants, James Loney, Jay Bell, Jesus Alou, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Bass, Lee Mazzilli, Lenny Harris, Livan Hernandez, Lorenzo Cain, Marlon Anderson, Mike Marshall, Mike Moustakas, Mike Stanton, Orel Hershiser, Orioles, Orlando Hernandez, Postseason Grudges, Ramon Martinez, Red Sox, Reds, Rick Ankiel, Royals, Shawn Estes, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, The West Wing, Todd Frazier, Willie Randolph, Yankees For six innings Tuesday night, I was content to float along on the echoes provided by the visitor who used to call Citi Field home, the visitor who was the first Met to make Citi Field feel like a home. R.A. Dickey was pitching a shutout for the Braves against the Mets. See past the […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, A.J. Minter, Amed Rosario, Asdrubal Cabrera, Braves, Craig Brazell, Dominic Smith, Echoes, Ender Inciarte, Esix Snead, Kevin Plawecki, R.A. Dickey, Rafael Montero, September, Terry Collins, Travis Taijeron Even Mets fans get to have good days. Honestly, Saturday’s doubleheader with the Braves was about as stress-free as a day dealing with the confounding, confounded 2017 Mets has been. You got drama in both games, with Robert Gsellman and then Steven Matz pitching marvelously but being largely matched by Atlanta competition. But then the drama […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Jay Bruce, Matt Wisler, Steven Matz, T.J. Rivera, Yoenis Cespedes What an impressive young man, that Dansby Swanson. The cut of his jib is first-rate, tip-top, simply splendid. Let me show you a few choice selections from his defensive portfolio Friday night… Hmm, I can’t seem to find any of them. Why, that Dansby Swanson seems to have leapt as from out of nowhere and snatched […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Curtis Granderson, Dansby Swanson, Impressive, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Paul Sewald, Young Win or lose, the 2017 Mets are exhausting. They didn’t win tonight — Matt Harvey‘s poor location, lousy relief, Freddie Freeman‘s ubiquitous bat and annoyingly good baseball played by Ender Inciarte, Brandon Phillips and Nick Markakis took care of that — but they made it interesting, with Jay Bruce‘s grand slam making it 9-7. Dare I […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Freddie Freeman, Jay Bruce, Larry Vanover, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, R.A. Dickey, Replay, Umpiring A few weeks ago I came across an article previewing brand spanking new SunTrust Park. It said that Braves fans were certain to enjoy some fantastic feature or another, which caused me to chuckle internally, because nobody really has an inkling of what a ballpark is going to turn into until experience replaces expectation. After […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Rendon, Braves, Jerry Blevins, Jose Reyes, Julio Teheran, Kevin Plawecki, Leadoff Home Runs, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Position Players Pitching, Relief Pitchers Hitting, Sean Gilmartin, SunTrust Park, Team History, Unknowables, Weathervane Rooting |
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