Congratulations to the New York Mets of July 5, 2024, for doing something no Mets team had ever done before in a blowout loss so bad that a position player had to pitch. On Friday night, the Mets, whose last call to the visitors’ bullpen at PNC Park would summon catcher Luis Torrens, actually stayed […]
 
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 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Backloaded Blowout Losses, Bill Pecota, Bryan Reynolds, Grand Slams, Home Runs, Jake Diekman, Luis Severino, Luis Torrens, Paul Skenes, Pirates, Position Players Pitching, Rowdy Tellez, Steven Matz, Team History, Ty Adcock 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 Pete Alonso grabbed his lumber When Francisco Lindor That’s basically the story of how the Mets employed a Lizzie Borden-style attack in Milwaukee Tuesday night to hack their way to a 7-5 victory in the penultimate game of their series […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anxiety, Brewers, Dread, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Grand Slams, Penultimate Day, Pete Alonso, Streaks It’s an axiomatic to what we do here at Faith and Fear that the Mets are front and center in life for at least six months a year, with 1:10 pm and 7:05 pm the times around which calendars get constructed, not to mention all the oddball 10s and 05s on the clock necessitated by […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Gary Sanchez, Grand Slams, Joan Adon, Pete Alonso, SNY, Wayne Kirby I took a little Matz nap somewhere between very late Tuesday night and very early Wednesday morning. It was peaceful. Steven Matz had made it so, via professional hitting, heady baserunning and characteristically competent pitching. The pitching’s what we tune in for even if it’s also what we nod […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Around the Horn, Cody Bellinger, Dodgers, Grand Slams, Michael Conforto, Middle-Innings Matz Naps, Steven Matz They called him Sudden Sam McDowell because he threw fast, not because he tended to put his team in the deepest hole imaginable as quickly as possible, but that’s what the hard-throwing lefty the Giants obtained from Cleveland did to his new team on May 14, 1972. […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 47th Anniversaries, Digital Synchronicity, Don Carrithers, Grand Slams, Jeremy Hellickson, M*A*S*H, Noah Syndergaard, Rusty Staub, Sam McDowell, Team History, Uniform Numbers, Willie Mays, Wilson Ramos You don’t remember Jose Bautista was a Met? Yeah, he was another one of those veterans the Mets picked up when nobody else wanted him, another one of those faded stars of whom it was assumed he had nothing left. This was in 2018 when the Mets seemed to be doing a lot of that. Maybe that’s […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Blue Jays, Gil Hodges, Grand Slams, Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Jose Bautista, Memories, Rays, Walkoffs, Wilmer Flores First game of the first doubleheader in Minute Maid Park history. First game back in Houston after Hurricane Harvey. First start for Matt Harvey after missing two-and-a-half months. First innings pitched in the major league careers of Jacob Rhame and Jamie Callahan. First game in a Mets uniform for Nori Aoki. First time since 2009 […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Hinch, Astros, Grand Slams, Houston, Jacob Rhame, Jamie Callahan, Matt Harvey, Nori Aoki, Wilmer Flores Statistically, it didn’t matter that the Yankees came to Citi Field from the Bronx to complete their Subway Series sweep. It mattered that they came from near the top of their division. The Mets versus any serious contender this year has been almost uniformly bad news. Talk about hewing to your weight class. The lightweight 2017 […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, Curtis Granderson, Futile Comebacks, Grand Slams, Luis Severino, Raul Gonzalez, Reds, Rob Schneider, Steven Matz, Strength of Schedule, Subway Series, Yankees A grand slam? The Marlins thought they were gonna beat the Mets with a grand slam? Hey, Marlins, I got a team I wanna introduce you to: the Phillies. The Phillies thought they were gonna beat the Mets with a grand slam. Hey, Phillies, tell the Marlins how that worked out. Yeah, I thought so. The Phillies […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Angel Hernandez, Brett Gardner, Brian Johnson, Chipper Jones, Darren Daulton, Ernest Riles, Grand Slams, Hansel Robles, Hubie Brooks, Jason Thompson, Jay Bruce, Jody Davis, Maikel Franco, Marathons, Marcell Ozuna, Marlins, Melvin Nieves, Michael Conforto, Mike Vail, Neil Walker, Opponent Grand Slams in Mets Wins, Robert Gsellman, Ryan Howard, Ryan Jackson, Team History, Terry Puhl, Todd Helton, Tom Goodwin, Travis d'Arnaud, Vic Davalillo, Willie Stargell, Wilson Ramos, Winning Streaks, Yoenis Cespedes |
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