Francisco Alvarez went up and got it. The pitch, from Tyler Rogers, was measured at 3.87 feet off the ground. It looked higher. It flew higher. It flew over Oracle Park’s left field fence, which is eight feet high. After going up, getting it, and sending it for an aerial ride, Alvarez had every right […]
 
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 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Francisco Alvarez, OPS+, Patience, Progress, Promise What Joey Lucchesi did on Friday night was, in the pitching-short present, necessary and appreciated. Off the radar for nearly two years while he underwent and rehabbed from Tommy John surgery, Joey the Churve stormed back from obscurity and Syracuse to do more for the Mets in one outing than he had done the whole […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, 1976 Mets, Craig Swan, Dave Kingman, Home Runs, Joey Lucchesi, Pete Alonso, Sports Phone, Team History The man used sweat and rosin, he said. He said it a lot. He repeated it enough so that I believed him, which doesn’t always work. The pitcher doth protest too much, methinks might be applicable here, except the pitcher pitches for the Mets and Met-think is how methinks. Besides, this is Max Scherzer in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Ejection, Jeff Brigham, Jimmy Yacabonis, Max Scherzer, Noah Syndergaard, Rosin, Suspension, Sweat, The Manchurian Candidate, Umpiring “Do you have any other ideas? It’s getting late.” 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Daniel Vogelbach, David Peterson, Dodger Stadium, Dodgers, Drew Smith, Dustin May, Late Night West Coast Games, Story Conferences A walker can examine our past and present up close and come to some hazy conclusion over where we might be heading, not unlike Alexis de Tocqueville and Charles Dickens and so many others did when wandering similar byways during another uneasy patch of our history. If you took every 90 feet worth of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2022 Mets, A's, Francisco Lindor, Interleague Play, Jeurys Familia, Kodai Senga, Neil King Jr., Oakland Coliseum, Old Friends, Possums, Team History, Unicorn Scores, Walks When the Mets win, it’s best that the Mets win by doin’ Met things. When the Mets win, perhaps it’s not important to give the win a litmus test and just accept the W, but it’s more comforting to sense the Mets are functioning as they are supposed to so a given win doesn’t come […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Advertising Patches, Comebacks, David Robertson, Desecration of Uniforms, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Met Things, Pete Alonso, Tylor Megill Six months and one day after it would have done the most good, the Mets beat the Padres at Citi Field. It didn’t tie up last October’s National League Wild Card Series at two apiece, because that was a best-of-three set. Noted baseball analyst Carole King says it’s too late, baby, to do anything about […] Someday, perhaps, there will be another Kodai who plays for the New York Mets. I’d like to think that soon there will be a son of Mets fans, and his parents will name him for the righthander who left the Miami Marlins mostly spooked in his first two outings in the United States, the second […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Hobie Landrith, Kodai Senga, Moment of Silence, Team History Having recently conferred “visiting scholar” status upon one Maxwell Martin Scherzer, a righthander who earned his doctorate in pitching long ago, I’ll leave it to the old professor himself to figure out what the hell is wrong with him. If it’s not physical (he says he’s fine), not mental (he won’t use the pitch clock […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brian Anderson, Cheeseheads, Denyi Reyes, Garrett Mitchell, Indoor Fireworks, Max Scherzer, Punctuation, Rowdy Tellez, Tommy Hunter, Wade Miley Carlos Carrasco appeared forlorn, first on the mound, more so in the clubhouse when reporters asked him about his declining velocity, his difficulties adjusting to the timer and everything else that had gone wrong. Tommy Hunter had no choice but to wear a hit-eating grin when the camera found him at his lowest. The pitching […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 10-0 Losses, 1984 Mets, 2003 Mets, Basketball, Brad Wilkerson, Brewers, Brice Durang, Carlos Carrasco, David Cone, Expos, Gary Carter, Grand Slams, Home Openers, Luis Guillorme, Passover, Position Players Pitching, Ron Darling, San Juan Expos, Steve Trachsel, Team History, Tim Locastro, Tommy Hunter |
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