Let’s be honest. Unless you were keeping close tabs on Casey Stengel’s bullpen between July 24 and September 18, 1962, you probably don’t have any idea what kind of pitcher Bob G. Miller was for the 17 appearances he made in a New York Mets uniform. But, to be fair to all concerned, you don’t […]
 
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 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1962 Mets, 1988 Mets, Bob G. Miller, David West, Moment of Silence For whoever molds the story of the 2022 New York Mets into a controversial albeit highly entertaining limited series for HBO, here are a few data points to keep in mind when deciding where to be dramatic and where to be accurate. • Left fielder Nick Plummer was not making his major league debut when he […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Dramatization, Francisco Lindor, HBO, Nick Plummer, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Uniclone Scores, Winning “Kid, we’re short of staff this weekend. I need you to go out to Citi Field and cover Sunday night’s Mets-Phillies game. The main thing is the lede. Watch what happens, and when you think you know what the main story is, type up a graf and shoot it back to the copy desk. We […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Chris Bassitt, Comebacks, Drama, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Nick Plummer, Starling Marte, Stephen Nogosek, Walkoffs “It’s gonna be a good summer.” The Mets do not score in every inning. It only feels as if they do. Or maybe it’s just that it feels as if they score every inning when it would be most helpful. In the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Colin Holderman, Francisco Lindor, Goodfellas, Jeff McNeil, Nick Plummer, Offensive Explosion, Summer, Taijuan Walker The Phillies put up a six-spot in the sixth inning, which would have been a problem had the Mets not treated the fabric of Friday night’s game with a solution that prevented such spots from staining their outcome: a 7-0 lead. We’ve seen this season, usually from the encouraging side of things, the way tides can […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Ed Kranepool, Home Runs, Pete Alonso, Team History, Unblown Leads With apologies to Moonlight Graham awaiting a lifetime for his first at-bat in Field of Dreams; Blue Moon Odom, mainstay of the dynastic 1970s Oakland A’s; Wally Moon’s “Moon shots” down the right field line when the Flatbush-abandoning Dodgers put down temporary stakes at the woefully misshapen L.A. Coliseum; and even Pete Alonso’s shall we […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Bar Mitzvah, Lonny, Lunar Codex, Mad Men, Nanette Fluhr, Oscar's Cap Awards, The Moon To paraphrase the late, great Roger Angell (for neither the first nor last time in this space), specifically what he said about his presence in Boston during Game Six of the 1986 NLCS while the Mets were cheating death in Houston and baseball had “burst its seams and was wild in the streets” in New […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Comebacks, Roger Angell, Sleep, Thomas Szapucki Once upon a time the Mets were down six runs in the seventh and with my eyes on bedtime I composed a minor recap I knew wasn’t a classic but thought did its duty well enough, particularly grading on the curve for West Coast night-owl duty. It was called “Ten Commandments for a West Coast […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Giants, Joc Pederson, Madness, Stephen Nogosek, Walkoff Losses Joe Pignatano was the bullpen coach. He was the bullpen coach when I got here. He was the bullpen coach forever. I’m using past tense only on a technicality. Forever is a mighty long time. Piggy, as he was known also forever, has died at 92. The ballpark in whose bullpen he famously cultivated tomatoes preceded […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Coaches, Joe Pignatano, Moment of Silence, Tomatoes What was going through Darin Ruf‘s mind as he lay on or perhaps in the netting in San Francisco while the ball he’d been pursuing bounced around somewhere nearby in an entire-world sense but entirely too far away in a make-a-baseball-play sense while a less-than-ideal quantity of Mets hustled around the bases? Perhaps he was thinking […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Cobb, Darin Ruf, David Peterson, Giants, Luis Gonzalez, Maurico Llovera, Pete Alonso |
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