The Mets who needed to hit hit Thursday night in Milwaukee. Every position player hit, actually, which is what the Mets needed most. The starting pitcher, Steven Matz, didn’t hit, but wasn’t hit. Steven went six innings, allowed no runs and handed the proceedings over to Paul Sewald […]
 
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 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Michael Conforto, Youth of America Gary Cohen called Wednesday night’s 2-1 loss “stunning” the moment after it happened. Gary Cohen makes mostly accurate statements. This wasn’t among them. The Mets had led the Marlins, 1-0, since the fifth inning. Brandon Nimmo had put us on the board […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anxieties, Blown Saves, Brandon Nimmo, Expectations, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Mickey Callaway, Not Stunning, One Run With a one-and-a-half game lead over two rivals and an off day today, the Mets are guaranteed go into the books as the kings of April 2018, provided there are books devoted to April kings in any year. At most, there’s maybe a pamphlet.
The Mets flirted with history several times on Sunday. Losing two in a row for the first time in 2018 would have been historic. No need to make that kind of history. Noah Syndergaard approached Tom Seaver’s major league record for consecutive strikeouts. Tom, as every schoolchild […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Chris Jones, Jackie Robinson, Noah Syndergaard, Team History, Three or More Walkoff Home Runs, Walkoffs, Weekend Walkoff Homers, Wilmer Flores, WOT April has arrived only in name. We are living in West March, akin to the section of the Florida panhandle referred to as Lower Alabama. It’s too cold for baseball, but baseball insisted on showing up anyway. Six games were scheduled ahead of anything that feels like […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Asdrubal Cabrera, Brandon Nimmo, Cold, Facebook, Hansel Robles, Mickey Callaway, Noah Syndergaard, Phillies, Radio, Robert Gsellman, Yoenis Cespedes So. I pretty much took the winter off. I was busy with my other dorky obsession, writing books related to this oddball space-fantasy movie you might have heard of. But that’s an excuse. I was weirdly disengaged — to an extent that began to worry me. Granted, my disengaged would be a lot of folks’ full-throated fandom. […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Baseball Cards, Brandon Nimmo, Kevin Plawecki, Noah Syndergaard, Opening Day, Rusty Staub, The Holy Books, Yadier Molina Someday Spring Training will be over. I’m basing that solely on precedent and occasional commercials hawking ticket packages that include access to Opening Day. Otherwise, we’re marooned inside that Journey song that implores us to not stop believing, the one whose movie never ends, it goes on […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Anthony Swarzak, Astros, Big Shirtless Noah, Brandon Nimmo, David Wright, Dom Smith, Injuries, Jim Bouton, Jonathan Lucroy, Journey, March, Neil Walker, Noah Syndergaard, Rafael Montero, Spring Training, Terry's Kids, Travin d'Arwecki, Yo La Tengo, Yoenis Cespedes The old adage “if you wanna win a ballgame, you gotta be able to triple” doesn’t exist, but based on foundational Mets lore, maybe it oughta. In their first nine games of existence, the Mets totaled 68 hits. Eight were doubles, twelve were homers, the rest were singles. All of the games were losses. In […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2009 Mets, Al Leiter, Amed Rosario, Bobby Gene Smith, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Butler, Bud Harrelson, Cory Sullivan, Darryl Strawberry, Doug Flynn, Eric Cammack, Jay Bruce, Jose Reyes, Lance Johnson, Marlon Anderson, Mookie Wilson, Ruben Tejada, Sammy Taylor, Team History, Triples, Victor Zambrano, Willie Montanez Well, at least it’s another day off the calendar, what with the Mets all but drowned in the mire of another Mike Glavine season. I keep thinking about The Other Glavine as a beacon of futility. He got his lone big-league hit on the final day of the 2003 season, a 4-0 beating by the Marlins. […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Kevin Plawecki, Mike Glavine We’ll begin with the bringdown portion of today’s recap. Matt Harvey lasted five innings, threw his fastball around 93, and got a grand total (if I’m remembering the broadcast correctly) of one swinging strike from a position player. 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Juan Lagares, Kevin Plawecki, Matt Harvey, Thoracic Outlet Surgery, Travis d'Arnaud |
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