OK, 161-1 isn’t actually going to happen — and at the risk of disappointing someone, I’m guessing 151-11 will be a stretch too. But such giddy enthusiasm seemed eminently sensible after Jerry Blevins shuffled off the mound with a strikeout and a grounder on his 2017 resume, a combination that kept the game tied 1-1, simultaneously […]
 
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 21 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Addison Reed, Adonis Garcia, Brandon Phillips, Defense, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Jerry Blevins I’ll accept the title of Fan Who Had Nothing to Do With the Outcome But Can Be Forgiven for Thinking He Did: a couple of seconds before the turning point of Saturday night’s marathon against the Twins, I looked up at the scoreboard and told my friend that “if this keeps up we’ll somehow be the […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Byron Buxton, Curtis Granderson, Ervin Santana, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Twins, Yoenis Cespedes A penny for my thoughts? The team for whose chances I wouldn’t have given you a plug nickel a few weeks ago proceeded to turn on a dime and play like a million bucks, yet on Thursday night my paid admission entitled me only to watch them not amount to two bits for most of […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Christian Yelich, Depth, Fernando Salas, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Neil Walker, Ray Ramirez, Smokey and the Bandit, The Grim Reaper It’s a truism of baseball that no matter what you’re going to win 54 games and lose 54 games, with what happens in the other 54 determining your season. Which is a pretty good rule, even if the Mets broke it for the first four years of their existence and came within a whisper of busting it […] The Giants certainly know how to slot their promotions, scheduling their annual Jerry Garcia Tribute Night for when the Mets came to town Thursday. A friend of mine, not much of a Grateful Dead fan, liked to tell the joke, “What did the Deadhead say once the drugs wore off — ‘man, this music sucks.’” I […] 51 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Trip, Grand Slams, Grateful Dead, Jacob deGrom, Justin Ruggiano, Madison Bumgarner, Team History Ryan Schimpf can blast home runs, but I’m not quite sure what he was doing in the bottom of the 11th, when Wilmer Flores hit a ground ball his way with runners on first and third and one out. James Loney, who moves at the approximate speed of a continental shelf, was the runner on […] 50 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bunting, Gabriel Ynoa, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Neil Walker, Ryan Schimpf, Wilmer Flores The Tigers lost a tough one on Sunday. Anibal Sanchez’s eight sterling innings went to waste, Francisco Rodriguez couldn’t maintain a ninth-inning tie, J.D. Martinez couldn’t unwrap a gift run in the eighth and the failure to cash in opportunity after opportunity was galling: three double plays in the first four innings and ten men […] 42 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anibal Sanchez, Frankie Rodriguez, J.D. Martinez, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Not Losing I traveled to the Meadowlands a couple of Septembers ago for a Giants game. In the first series executed by the home team, a run for four yards on 3rd and 1 produced a first down. My host for the afternoon, as True Blue a fan as there is, could not have been happier to […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Mike Compton, One-Hitters, Phillies, Starting Pitching, Zach Eflin Was Wednesday afternoon’s matinee a perfect baseball game? Probably not — if you have to ask you have your own answer — but it was sure an enjoyable one, with a spectacular performance from Jacob deGrom, signs of professional life from Jose Reyes, a terrific day from Wilmer Flores, and a heckuva dragon to slay in a […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Giancarlo Stanton, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Michael Conforto, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores Brandon Nimmo is more than just happy to be here, but make no mistake: he’s happy to be here. Look at the smile that accompanied him around the bases after he bopped the first home run of his career, the one that elevated the Mets to a 7-1 lead en route to a soggy 10-2 […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Brandon Nimmo, Cubs, Gary Rajsich, Home Runs, Jacob deGrom, James Loney, Rain Delays, Seth Lugo, Smile, The Simpsons, Yoenis Cespedes |
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