Scoring the two runs necessary to defeat the Chicago White Sox on Memorial Day was less a matter of pulling teeth than implanting them for the New York Mets. Virtually no baserunners for innings on end. Then baserunners. but none of them driven in. Ultimately, a sacrifice fly in the eighth and a sacrifice fly […]
 
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 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adrian Houser, Bubble Gum, Clay Holmes, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Jose Butto, Jose Castillo, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Old Friends, One-Third of a Season, Pinch-Running, Sacrifice Flies, Tyrone Taylor, Walkoffs OK, so it didn’t exactly look good early. Kodai Senga‘s second pitch of the night was redirected by Shohei Ohtani to Carbonation Ridge for a 1-0 Dodger lead. Senga’s fourth pitch of the night skipped under Mark Vientos‘ glove, allowing Mookie Betts possession of first base. Senga’s 13th pitch? Freddie Freeman smacked it to right-center for a double, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dodgers, ESPN, Francisco Lindor, Freddie Freeman, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Landon Knack, Luis Torrens, Max Kranick, Max Muncy, Michael Conforto, Mookie Betts, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Ryne Stanek, Shohei Ohtani, Tyrone Taylor, Will Smith Friday night’s game … goodness, where do you even start? Let’s start with the weather. It wasn’t supposed to rain in New York, or at least not seriously enough to matter, but it’s done nothing but rain in New York all May, so if it isn’t doing that you check and see if it just did […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dodgers, Edwin Diaz, Extra Innings, Gho, Griffin Canning, Jeff McNeil, Luis Torrens, Luisangel Acuna, Max Muncy, Michael Conforto, Rain Delays, Reed Garrett, Starling Marte, Tanner Scott, Teoscar Hernandez, Tyrone Taylor The Mets won a misbegotten mess of a game against the Pirates Monday night, a contest simultaneously wonderful and awful, with eerily parallel mistakes ahead of a Mets closing kick that left you asking, “Wasn’t there an easier way to get here?” Nothing seemed all that stange in the early innings, as David Peterson (excellent) dueled […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Brian Reynolds, Caleb Ferguson, David Bednar, David Peterson, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Lindor, Henry Davis, Huascar Brazoban, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Jared Triolo, Jeff McNeil, Joey Bart, Jose Butto, Juan Soto, Ke'Bryan Hayes, Luisangel Acuna, Paul Skenes, Pete Alonso, Pirates, Tyrone Taylor 9:40 pm starts are to be regarded with suspicion even when the baseball they produce goes well — surely one could be doing something more worthwhile with one’s time, starting with sleeping. And when the baseball produced goes badly, as it did Tuesday night? Then one feels like the guy from the old gambler’s adage, looking […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, Francisco Alvarez, Late Night West Coast Games, Mark Vientos, Starling Marte, Tyrone Taylor, Zac Gallen Thanks, Gare. Like you said, it’s midnight in Manhattan, and this is no time to get cute, yet as we know, every first Monday night of May marks the return of the Met Gala to Manhattan, and whenever the Mets are playing at midnight Eastern Time on that same night, the game is stopped, wherever […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Mendoza, Dedniel Nunez, Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, Fashion, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Griffin Canning, Huascar Brazoban, Met Gala, Milestones, Molly Shannon, Pete Alonso, Steve Gelbs, The Pajama Game, Tyrone Taylor All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Good start to a famous Russian novel; excellent advice for baseball bloggers. It’s easier to write about miserable failing baseball teams than it is to write about happy successful ones. Angst and agita drive clicks and sports-radio hits and they also generate […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Baseball Cards, Brooks Raley, David Peterson, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, Jose Iglesias, Jose Urena, Juan Soto, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Herget, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, The Holy Books, Tyrone Taylor On nights I’m recapping, I put a little warning for myself on repeat in my brain: It’s not all about the narrative. We see patterns while watching baseball (or while doing anything else, storytelling monkeys that we are) and we find them irresistible — pattern detection is a tool we use to make sense of […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Alfonzo Marquez, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Mendoza, City Connects, Daniel Murphy, Defensive Runs NOT Saved, Dylan Crews, Jake Irvin, James Wood, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Winker, Jose Ferrer, Kodai Senga, Kyle Finnegan, Luis Garcia, Mark Vientos, Nathaniel Lowe, Nationals, Replay Review, Ryne Stanek, Triple Plays, Tyrone Taylor, Umpiring, Uniforms Yeah! Luis Torrens! The backup catcher thrust into near-everyday action is the hero in the bottom of the eighth, rescuing the Mets with a double all the way down the left field line, scoring Brandon Nimmo from second, salvaging an inning that nearly went by the wayside on the basepaths, breaking a tie, and positioning […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Cardinals, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Luisangel Acuna, Mark Vientos, Max Kranick, Old Friends, Phil Maton, Ryne Stanek, Tyrone Taylor, Walkoffs, Wishes, Wonders The Mets’ current formula for being 12-7 … well, it’s working while not seeming like a particularly good idea. They pitch impeccably, which you don’t need to be a lifetime baseball fan to know isn’t sustainable, and they hit … hmm, how to describe this part? Minimally? Sporadically? Just enoughally? Thursday night’s game followed this odd, not particularly […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andre Pallante, Brett Baty, Cardinals, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Griffin Canning, Mark Vientos, Tyrone Taylor |
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