Get two hits and score one run in the first inning. Get two hits and score no runs the rest of the way. Unless you’re planning on throwing a shutout, you’ve just guaranteed yourself a futile afternoon in Arlington. I don’t know what plans the Mets had, but they didn’t throw a shutout on Thursday. […]
 
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 1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Andy Green, Aspirations, Continuity, David Stearns, Derek Falvey, Kumar Rocker, Pretty Good, Rangers, Vast Middle, Zac Thornton When the bores and bureaucrats tasked with making Major League Baseball worse inflicted interleague play on us, they were thinking of Mets-Yankees and Cubs-White Sox and even, say, Cardinals-Royals. They didn’t have the likes of Mets-Rangers in mind, largely because it’s the kind of matchup you’d grudgingly accept when your little brother has gotten his […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Green, Brandon Nimmo, Carson Benge, Corey Seager, Dedniel Nunez, Devin Williams, Ezequiel Duran, Francisco Alvarez, Globe Life Field, Jake Burger, Juan Soto, Justin Foscue, Kodai Senga, Managers, Marcus Semien, Nate Lavender, Rangers, Sean Manaea, Terry Collins Take that, overdogs! Putting up 12 runs against the Yankees in their home park won’t change anything about October or much about the trajectory of a disappointing Mets season, but boy was it ever a satisfying way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Francisco Lindor led off with a line-drive homer into the short porch on Gerrit Cole‘s […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Green, Carson Benge, Cody Bellinger, Francisco Lindor, Gerrit Cole, Injuries, Jared Young, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Managers, New Yankee Stadium, Nolan McLean, Subway Series, Tobias Myers, Yankees, Zac Thornton Baseball is almost universally weird, but there’s weird by normal baseball standards and then there’s whatever happened to the Mets on Tuesday night in Miami. Sandy Alcantara reported for duty with his sinker acting as a Mets sleeper agent. That was obvious from the very first pitch of the game, which Francisco Lindor smacked over the […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Green, Clayton McCullough, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Lindor, Joe Mack, Jonathan Pintaro, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Kyle Stowers, Last Place, Marlins, Nate Lavender, Nationals, Owen Caissie, Perfect Game Bids, Sandy Alcantara, Sean Manaea, Soilmaster Stadium “Clash of the titans!” my pal Pete texted from San Francisco, previewing Friday night’s Mets-Giants game. My response? “Shitty baseball can be fun!” Hey, sometimes I’m a prophet. I feel a little bad for Pete, an on-again, off-again fan who chose this year to get more interested in the Giants. Oops — the Mets are bad (news flash) […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Green, Austin Warren, Bo Bichette, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Giants, Harrison Bader, Kodai Senga, Mark Vientos, Nolan McLean, Rafael Devers, Ron Swoboda, Steve Gelbs, Tug McGraw, Tugboat Wilkinson At one end of the rickety Passarelle Boardwalk, the US Open was just getting going. I shared my LIRR train from Woodside with people who were far too clean, fit, and stylish to be going to the other end of those dubious planks. Not exactly a slobs versus snobs scenario, but our differences were palpable. […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Green, Annie, Astros, Back-to-Back Leadoff Home Runs, Bill Shea, Bob Moorhead, Bull Durham, Chris Devenski, Christopher Morel, Don Zimmer, Francisco Lindor, Jared Young, Jonathan Pintaro, Juan Soto, Last Active Shea Met, LIRR, Max Scherzer, Mets Outfielders-Third Basemen, Mets Third Basemen-Outfielders, Metsoterica, NBC, Passarelle Boardwalk, Recidivist Mets, Robert Stock, Rod Kanehl, September Callups, Sunday Night Baseball, T-shirts, Tennis, Tug McGraw, Zac Thornton An oddity as this odd Mets season winds down is that I have remind myself Andy Green‘s top priority isn’t winning games. That’s always welcome, but not job one — job one is to conduct a quasi-instructional camp, in which new guys and new situations get tried out to see what might work in some […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Green, Austin Warren, Bo Bichette, Brewers, Christopher Morel, David Hamilton, Extra Innings, Francisco Lindor, Jefry Yan, Jonathan Pintaro, Kyle Harrison, Luis Robert Jr., Nate Lavender, Relief Pitching, Trevor Megill, William Contreras, Zac Thornton The 2025 Mets were lousy, basically without interruption, from June until they expired in Miami, with the date on the carton confirming that sour-milk taste you’d been trying to convince yourself wasn’t there really had been. It’s hard to single out games that stuck in the craw when pretty much all of them did, but […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Abimelec Ortiz, Andy Green, Bob Murphy, Brett Baty, Carson Benge, Christian Scott, Closers, Howie Rose, Jake Irvin, Jared Young, Jorge Polanco, Keibert Ruiz, Keith Raad, Kodai Senga, Luis Robert Jr., Luis Torrens, Managers, Nationals, Nolan McLean, Pat McCarthy, Radio, Zac Thornton Against the Nationals on Saturday, Sean Manaea saw the middle innings go awry and Will Dion pitched capably, an indication that he doesn’t belong anywhere near the Washington bullpen. But that was just the pieces being moved into place for the main event, which explored a fascinating (in a small-f way) philosophical inquiry: The Mets’ […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Andy Green, Billy Amick, Binghamton Rumble Ponies, Brett Baty, Brian McCann, Bullpen, Carson Benge, City Connects, Clayton Beeter, Corey Collins, Emilien Pitre, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Gabe Davis, Jared Young, Jefferson Rojas, Jefry Yan, Jorge Polanco, Kevin Parada, Nasim Nunez, Nationals, Pinch-Running, Portland Sea Dogs, Postgame Pressers, Questionable Managerial Decisions, Sean Manaea, Will Dion, Will Turner, Yovanny Cruz We had guests up here at the house in Maine, so when I got to belatedly check on the Mets I did a double take. NYM 5, ATL 2? Really? Really. A little sleuthing revealed that Brett Baty had ambushed Bryce Elder with his first career grand slam, following an oh so modern bit of confusion […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, ABS, Andy Green, Bo Bichette, Braves, Brent Suter, Brett Baty, Bryce Elder, Carson Benge, Challenges, Christian Scott, Closers, Cristian Pache, Daniel Duarte, Devin Williams, Francisco Lindor, Jared Young, Kodai Senga, Nate Lavender, Ronald Acuna Jr. |
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