The Mets looked listless in dropping the second game of Tuesday’s doubleheader against the Dodgers, and that limp display was the highlight of the day. Certainly it was better than the first game, in which a terrific start by Tylor Megill went down the toilet when his teammates couldn’t field, pitch or manage to hit […]
 
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 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Angel Hernandez, bad, Bad Fielding, Bad Fundies, Bad Hitting, Bad Relief Pitching, Chase Field, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Doubleheader Sweeps, Marlins, Michael Tucker, Mike Piazza, So Bad, So Fucking Bad, So So Fucking Bad, So So So Fucking Bad, Tylor Megill Believe it or not, the Mets did some good things on Saturday afternoon before decidedly not good things started happening. Mark Vientos collected a pair of hits, drove in a run and played the kind of defense I didn’t think he could play. J.D. Martinez once again looked like he’s shedding the rust of his late […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | City Connects, Disasters, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Martinez, Jeff McNeil, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Rod Kanehl, Starling Marte, Tomas Nido Baseball is always about momentum. On Thursday night the Mets emerged from a terrifying game with the Phillies as the owners of a hard-fought win. It’s the kind of game that pulls teams together, that gives them a certain sense of purpose when they head for the next battleground, newly confident that they can, in fact, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Christian Scott, Kirby Snead, Mariners, Marlins, Marv Throneberry, Michael Conforto, Milestone Mets, Nick Fortes, Soilmaster Stadium En route from the bottom 60% of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT — Nos. 55–44 here; Nos. 43–34 here; Nos. 33–23 here — to the just plain Top 20 (expressed without a percentage sign because they are, in fact, Nos. 20–1), I need to make a stop in consecutive years […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1994 Mets, 1994 Strike, 1995 Mets, Bill Pulsipher, Bobby Bonilla, David Segui, Dwight Gooden, Jason Isringhausen, Jose Vizcaino, Kevin McReynolds, Marlins, Mood Rings, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Patches, Rico Brogna, Turnarounds, Uniforms, World Series, Youth For all you completists in the crowd, it’s our privilege to report a final final score: Mets 1 Marlins 0 in eight rain-shortened innings last Thursday, ensuring the Mets were 75-87 in 2023, rather than whatever it appeared they were when the tarp went on; no resumption was attempted; and nobody from MLB told us […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2023 Postseason, Closing Day and Then Some, Extreme Rain Delay, Marlins, Rewards for the Patient I’ve never felt more like Jack Buck after returning home from a ballgame, for “I don’t believe that I don’t know what I just saw!” Did I see the Mets play the Marlins? Pretty sure I did. That was important to me, as, entering Thursday, I had not seen the Mets play the Marlins in person […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astounding Lack of Resolution, David Peterson, Marlins, Rafael Ortega, Rain Delays, Suspended Games, The Log It wasn’t raining Tuesday night. The problem was one of tenses — not what was happening weather-wise but what had happened. It wasn’t raining, but it had rained. Considerably. Considerably as in “enough that they give the concentration of rain a proper name and track it over the ocean like it’s an invasion fleet.” An amount […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brett Baty, Doubleheaders, Errors, Francisco Lindor, Fuckery, Jake Burger, Jorge Soler, Marlins, Pennant Race, Pete Alonso, Phil Bickford, Rainouts, Ramon De Jesus, Yuli Gurriel So the Mets won two out of three — and could have swept if not for a Gott-forsaken relief appearance — to knock the Marlins off their postseason course, at least temporarily. They’ll now tangle with the Phillies, whose playoff aspirations will be somewhat harder to foil, then host the Marlins, then square off with […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Drew Smith, Kodai Senga, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Ronny Mauricio, Spoilers, Trevor Gott He may not have had the spelling quite right 46 summers ago, but Marvin Gaye foresaw Tuesday night’s ninth inning in Miami at…I know what it’s called, but I’m not in the mood to acknowledge it Park. After struggling to convert baserunners into runs, and balls hit at them into outs, the Mets dramatically pulled […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Diner, Headaches, Joey Lucchesi, Marlins, Marvin Gaye, Ronny Mauricio, Spoilers, Time-Released Revenge, Trevor Gott Marlins Nation! We need to talk! Because what just happened? We just took it to the Atlanta Braves — the mighty Braves! — by sweeping a three-game series and outscoring Acuna and Strider and Co. by a cool 23 runs. There are less than two weeks to go in the season, and the playoffs are right […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Hatred, Jacob Stallings, Jeff McNeil, Jorge Soler, Jose Butto, Marlins, Phil Bickford, Spoilers, Tanner Scott |
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