On Saturday afternoon, Nolan McLean was pretty darn beautiful, with an array of hitters and fielders supporting him in his attractiveness. Nolan went seven, giving up just a first-inning run. Juan Soto returned with a big RBI single. Jared Young — the Jonathan Pintaro or perhaps Daniel Duarte of the starting lineup — quietly chipped […]
 
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 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  3-1 Losses, Anthony Young, Astros, Billy Wagner, Bob Aspromonte, Christian Scott, Colt .45s, Cumulative Franchise Record, Danny Heep, Dave Mlicki, Interleague Play, Jake Marisnick, Jonathan Villar, Juan Soto, Mike Hampton, Mike Scott, Nolan McLean, Octavio Dotel, Rusty Staub, Sid Fernandez, Team History For most of my life, my relationship to needles has been a matter of bracing for the absolute worst and reacting to them as if they definitely are. Once in a while, if a medical professional is coming at my anatomy in a spot where I’m not used to it, I will still yelp and […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Interleague Play, Jefry Yan, Luis Robert Jr., Needles, Sean Manaea, Teammates with State Capital Names, White Sox, Yelps, Yowls The fans who wait for their team to come off the road while the year is still young are rewarded for their patience with two Openers. There’s Opening Day, which is festive no matter that it’s taking place in another ballpark, and there’s a discrete Home Opener, which grants us a second helping of holiday […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Blue Jays, Bobby Jones, Buffets, Déjà Vu All Over Again, Francisco Lindor, Home Opener, Interleague Play, Juan Soto, Max Kranick, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Replay Review, Team History, Tylor Megill The last shreds of Interleague mystery are falling away this season. We’re in Seattle for the first time since 2017, which hints at the randomness of the way NL vs AL used to be scheduled. When this gimmick was introduced in 1997, We in the NL East played They in the AL East every year […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Interleague Play, Nope Still Don’t Care For It, The Twilight Zone During Saturday afternoon’s telecast, Ron Darling recalled a moment of frustration from early in his career when he was so fed up with receiving no-decisions for his pitching efforts that he said he’d rather take a loss than another ND. Older and wiser (and by way of slapping the Mariners’ George Kirby on the wrist […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Norms, DJ Stewart, George Kirby, Interleague Play, Pablo Lopez, Ron Darling, Twins, Tylor Megill Every season includes mathematical milestones that take me by surprise when I look up and notice them. Has this much of the season already flown by? It usually starts at the 16-game mark. We’re barely two weeks removed from Opening Day and, bam, 10% of the season has disappeared. We do this only fifteen more […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Danny Mendick, Fountains, Interleague Play, Jonathan Arauz, Josh Walker, Position Players Pitching, Royals, Spiritual Forfeits In the spirit of the Baseball Writers Association of America members with whom I rubbed or at least grazed elbows Friday night, I humbly submit my ballot for Most Valuable Angle from the 10-9 ten-inning Mets win over the Guardians. 1) MY PRESENCE IN THE CITI FIELD PRESS BOX 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Arnold Hano, Brett Baty, Buck Showalter, Citi Kids, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Guardians, Interleague Play, Mark Vientos, New York Giants, Pete Alonso, Press Box Decorum A walker can examine our past and present up close and come to some hazy conclusion over where we might be heading, not unlike Alexis de Tocqueville and Charles Dickens and so many others did when wandering similar byways during another uneasy patch of our history. If you took every 90 feet worth of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2022 Mets, A's, Francisco Lindor, Interleague Play, Jeurys Familia, Kodai Senga, Neil King Jr., Oakland Coliseum, Old Friends, Possums, Team History, Unicorn Scores, Walks Jacob deGrom pitched to six minor league batters on Sunday night. Five of them turned into smoldering holes in the dirt adjacent to home plate. I didn’t notice what became of the sixth. As far as we can tell, nobody was actually harmed, neither the young Jupiter Hammerheads whose future still remains ahead of them […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Interleague Play, Jeff McNeil, Jonah Heim, Rangers, Starling Marte, Trumpets The most delightful aspect of the 2021 Mets to date that hasn’t involved Jacob deGrom pitching and hitting has been the emergence of the self-anointed Bench Mob, the aggregation of heretofore part-timers who’ve produced plentifully when called on, which has also plentifully. Riding to our injury-riddled rescue in the grand tradition of Bambi’s Bandits, Hondo’s […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bench Mob, Chris Carter, Designated Hitter, Hamstrings, Injuries, Interleague Play, Jake Hager, Jeff McNeil, Jeremy Hefner, Jonathan Villar, Jose Peraza, Kevin Pillar, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Patrick Mazeika, Tomas Nido |
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