Last games before All-Star breaks are an intriguing subgenre. I can clearly remember the Mets going out on high notes that were microcosms of the momentum they rode as first halves closed. You don’t want the pause in the schedule, you don’t want the bats put away, you can’t wait to get back to baseball […]
 
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 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  All-Star Breaks, Amed Rosario, Energy, Hype, Patience, Paul DeJong, Prospects, Slight Delusions of Contention, Steven Matz, Tired Blood It’s 10½ games to first place, we got one healthy starting outfielder, half a season, it’s morning, and we have a game before noon. Saturday afternoon, shortly past 2:10 PM Metropolitan Promotional Time, I entered Citi Field clutching an Asdrubal Cabrera bobblehead and overcome by a vision. In my […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Elwood Blues, Nationals, Relief Pitching, Ryan Raburn, Sam Rayburn, Steven Matz, Summer, Visions Don’t remind Ray Ramirez that Curtis Granderson is still out there, still playing, still hitting, still in one piece. Ramirez, or our conception of Ramirez as grim reaper of Met body parts, eventually gets everybody. He doesn’t get Granderson, though. Three-and-a-half years into a four-year contract, Grandy stands on two feet that he puts one […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Curtis Granderson, Ed Kranepool, Jose Reyes, Mets-Fan Compulsiveness, Milestones, Steven Matz, Team History, The West Wing In case you didn’t stay up Thursday night, the Mets stayed down again in Los Angeles. They lost all four games they played there this week. They lost in such numbing fashion that when they appeared on the verge of losing in a fairly professional manner, it felt like victory. Then the professionalism seeped away […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cody Bellinger, Dale Murray, George Bamberger, Jerry Blevins, Justin Turner, Paul Sewald, Pedro Baez, Steven Matz, Terry Collins Gladys Knight wasn’t wrong when she concluded, over radios everywhere as 1973 became 1974, that she really had to use her imagination to keep on keepin’ on. Yet her compadres the Pips couldn’t have been more right when they offered her this message of positive reinforcement: You’re too strong not to keep on keepin’ on. If you’ve […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Comebacks, Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Gerry Goffin, Gladys Knight, Injuries, Jerry Blevins, Jose Reyes, Josh Smoker, Juan Lagares, Kyle Schwarber, Lucas Duda, Matt Harvey, Neil Walker, Paul Sewald, Pinch-Hitting, Pitchers Hitting, Rafael Montero, Steven Matz, The Pips Even Mets fans get to have good days. Honestly, Saturday’s doubleheader with the Braves was about as stress-free as a day dealing with the confounding, confounded 2017 Mets has been. You got drama in both games, with Robert Gsellman and then Steven Matz pitching marvelously but being largely matched by Atlanta competition. But then the drama […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Jay Bruce, Matt Wisler, Steven Matz, T.J. Rivera, Yoenis Cespedes “Just brushed my elbow up against the baserunner, Ray. I think I’ll be OK.” “My wrist and the guy’s bat made contact, Ray. No biggie.” “Something with my knee, Ray. Feels a little off, but […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Injuries, Juan Lagares, Kelvim Escobar, Lucas Duda, Noah Syndergaard, Ray Ramirez, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes Asdrubal knew it was OUTTA HERE! OUTTA HERE! as soon as he hit it. Eleven innings played. Twenty-seven home players used. Two-hundred fourteen home pitches thrown. Two-hundred sixty-three minutes consumed. Two arms raised skyward. One-hundred eighty emotional degrees traversed. And, in the final scene, the Three Amigos riding off into the sunrise, having rescued […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Basket of Deployables, Brandon Nimmo, Chumbawamba, Jose Reyes, Lucas Duda, Magical Thinking, Milestones, Phillies, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, The Three Amigos, Yoenis Cespedes Had Steven Matz carried his Sunday no-hitter attempt at Citi Field two outs further and into the ninth inning, it would have been fascinating to have seen how Terry Collins would have balanced the not necessarily meshing interests of history (or HI32ORY) and preservation…preservation of Matz’s bone-spurred left elbow. But since Matz gave up his first hit, […] 74 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Media Criticism, No-Hit Bids, Steven Matz, Terry Collins If you were looking for four hours that would renew your faith in the Mets, well, boy did you pick the wrong night. First the Mets played a thoroughly inept game against the Yankees, one in which a) they were atrocious once more with runners in scoring position; b) Steven Matz underpitched Chad Green to put them in an inescapably […] 52 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hansel Robles, Injuries, Mark Teixeira, Steven Matz, Yoenis Cespedes |
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