I don’t know if it’s a repressed memory that suddenly burst through my consciousness or simply a detail that didn’t hold my attention for long when it was fresh, but after the Mets’ losing streak reached six games Thursday night in Atlanta, I thought of the 2024 National League Championship Series, specifically the Mets’ starting […]
 
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 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2024 Postseason, Blade Tidwell, Clay Holmes, Justin Hagenman, Repressed Memories, Starting Pitching, Sudden Changes of Fortune Except for the top of the sixth inning, Friday night at Citi Field was a pretty good game. The Mets scored five runs versus the Tampa Bay Rays and received five solid innings from Clay Holmes. Gotta like things of that nature occurring. It’s a shame the top of the sixth, when Paul Blackburn and Max […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clay Holmes, Edwin Uceta, Eric Orze, LOBs, Old Friends, Paul Blackburn, Rays, Ronny Mauricio There’s a lot one could say about Ronny Mauricio‘s third-inning home run in Denver Saturday night, starting with the fact that it went 456 feet and came down in the third deck. That’s … a long way. The third deck is a place where fans sit contentedly expecting not to be involved in the proceedings way […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Clay Holmes, Dick Monfort, Francisco Lindor, German Marquez, Home Runs, Jared Young, Jeff McNeil, Julian Merryweather, Justin Garza, Luis Torrens, Rockies, Ronny Mauricio Some ballgames elude complexity. Sunday’s had on one side of Citi Field the team that was tied for best record in its league, and on the other side of the divide the team with the worst record in all of baseball. The team with a best-record claim had three world-class sluggers. The team with the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clay Holmes, Francisco Lindor, Home Runs, Johnny Mathis, Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, Rockies, Simplicity Scoring the two runs necessary to defeat the Chicago White Sox on Memorial Day was less a matter of pulling teeth than implanting them for the New York Mets. Virtually no baserunners for innings on end. Then baserunners. but none of them driven in. Ultimately, a sacrifice fly in the eighth and a sacrifice fly […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Bubble Gum, Clay Holmes, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Jose Butto, Jose Castillo, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Old Friends, One-Third of a Season, Pinch-Running, Sacrifice Flies, Tyrone Taylor, Walkoffs Savor this. That’s always the warning when your baseball team is playing taut, crackling ball at a pinch me level. It seems inconceivable, but the good times will end. The hits will stop falling in, balls will start just eluding gloves, relievers will enter jams and emerge scathed. Baseball’s karmic wheel will turn and somehow joy […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Brandon Nimmo, Clay Holmes, Disappointment, Fenway Park, Losing Streaks, Red Sox, Walker Buehler If you were curious as to what a 2025 New York Mets lineup that doesn’t feature Juan Soto would have looked like, you got a glimpse Wednesday night at Citi Field. Carlos Mendoza rested his right fielder, the fellow who’s batted second every game since Opening Day, the guy who — whether he’s raking or […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blah, Clay Holmes, Jose Azocar, Juan Soto, Rain, Rest, the immortal Chris Majkowski Hey Mets fans? Which National League teams do you hate? The most common answer is that we hate — in the operatic sports pantomime sense of the word, you understand — the Braves and the Phillies. This is the way of the world, as those two teams are our principal antagonists in the National League East. […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Brett Baty, Clay Holmes, Cubs, Dansby Swanson, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Hatred, Jameson Taillon, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Kyle Tucker, Phillies, White Sox A day later, there was no wackiness, no crazy reversals, and a fairly simple narrative. And you know what? That was just fine. The rain threatened to play havoc with Clay Holmes‘ preparation and our afternoon plans, but Holmes persevered through two delays and I presume most of us did too — the only guy who […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Catchers, Clay Holmes, Danny Young, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Gary Carter, Huascar Brazoban, Jerry Grote, Max Kranick, Nationals, Rain Delays, Rene Rivera The Mets haven’t explicitly promised to catch me if I fall backwards in their general direction, but I trust them to, figuratively speaking. In this young season that has shown signs of early maturation and sustained blooming, I keep coming back to a single five-letter word. Trust. I trust these Mets to win ballgames. I trust […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Clay Holmes, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Sweeps, Trust |
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