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 His name was Dr. Lago. He left Cuba years before and wound up teaching Spanish in my junior high. He was what you’d kindly call irascible. The translation of irascible en Español is also irascible, which is good information to retain in case he calls on me. Not much […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1985 Mets, Irascible Junior High Spanish Teachers, Jack Reinheimer, Jose Reyes, Losing, Noah Syndergaard, Team History, The 25-4 Game, The 26-7 Game, Tommy Milone, Von Hayes That’s enough baseball for tonight, thanks. Honestly, it was kind of funny. Your recapper was three seats behind the left-field fence for the worst loss — mathematically speaking — in franchise history, and can report that it really wasn’t that bad. Losing 3-2 in 11 lingers unpleasantly in the memory. Getting jumped for a five-spot in […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Franchise Records, Jeff McNeil, Jose Reyes, Nationals When they’re tired of a player, fans have been known to opine that they’ll drive him to the airport themselves. I’ve certainly said it a few times. Heck, I’ll give Jose Reyes a piggyback ride to LaGuardia if that will end the current farce. But what we don’t hear often enough is the opposite sentiment […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gregory Polanco, Joe Musgrove, Kevin Plawecki, Trades, Zack Wheeler The new Metropolitan standard of excellence by way of archaic statistics is Five Wins and Six Losses. That’s right, 5-6. Never mind the likes of 25-7, 19-10, 22-9, 24-4 or 20-6. Move over, Messrs. Seaver (those first three), Gooden and Dickey. You were Amazin’ in your respective […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 5-6 Pitchers, Carlos Torres, Charlie Williams, David Cone, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Kobel, Pedro Martinez, Ron Darling, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Tug McGraw On Friday, in rapid succession, the Mets lost an interesting player and an interesting ballgame. The player, of course, was Asdrubal Cabrera, now a member of the Philadelphia Phillies. More on him in a bit. The ballgame, hmm. It wasn’t exactly a showcase for baseball, as at times neither team looked like it had any idea what […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, David Freese, Franklyn Kilome, Jason Vargas, Phillies, Pirates, Seth Lugo, Tim Peterson, Trades Such a messy game for such a tidy milestone, but given that the biggest mess of runs landed decisively on the Mets’ side of the box score, of course we’ll accept it without complaint. We do so little without complaint these days. What Mets fan could possibly […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Asdrubal Cabrera, Jeff McNeil, Round Numbers, Steven Matz, Team History, The Mets After a Hundred Games In a lost season, you appreciate the little things. Sometimes because they might grow into big things, and sometimes just for themselves. You appreciate two-out singles by Phillip Evans (yet another victim of the Great Jose Reyes Fiasco) and Amed Rosario to tie the game and then give the Mets a two-run lead. You appreciate that the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Corey Oswalt, Injuries, Jeurys Familia, Jose Bautista, Phillip Evans, Trades, Wilpons, Yoenis Cespedes It was, admittedly, one of those Everything Has to Go Perfectly ideas: Emily and I were landing at JFK a little after 4, taking the subway home to drop our luggage, then turning around and getting back on the subway to meet her father and our niece at Citi Field to see the Mets take […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Customer Service, Jeff McNeil, Manuel Margot, Replay Review, Zack Wheeler On a night when the Daily News didn’t send a reporter to Citi Field to cover the Mets, the Mets didn’t necessarily make news worth covering. That is if you subscribe to the theory that mundane “dog bites man” and “Mets bite in general” events don’t much amount to news.
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