Looking at the Mets’ Future
The Mets have played respectable baseball over the first 6 weeks of the 2013 season, but have not changed the consensus belief that they will not be going anywhere this season.
The players, fans, coaches, and owners know that the Mets are building for the future. That future is fast approaching. With the financial situation improving, the farm system getting deeper, the top prospects...
Whitestone Mike Does It Again! Mets Win Via Walkoff, 3-2!
The legend of Mike Baxter begins to grow as he came through in the clutch for the Mets yet again on Thursday night, with his second walk-off hit in three games!
This was a low scoring affair for the Mets due to Dillon Gee dancing out of trouble in each of his first five innings on the mound tonight, without allowing a run through them. He started the sixth for the Mets and allowed...
Mets Launch Post-Chipper Era With Win in Atlanta
For the last 16 years, every Mets trip to Atlanta has been fraught with the potential for disaster—potential that was usually realized, and most often administered by Chipper Jones.
Friday night, the Mets played the Braves in Turner Field for the first time since Chipper Jones retired, and they won exactly the kind of game that they had spent the last decade-and-a-half throwing...
David Wright, El Dramático And Clutch Offense Spark Another Rally
When you live on the West Coast, sometimes you have to listen to the other team’s broadcast. It can be excruciating. When your team starts winning, especially in clutch fashion, there’s nothing better.
That’s what happened to me while listening to the Braves announcers last night. When the Braves made a move, the Mets had an answer. Clutch offense was the theme of the game...
Angels Classic Rewind | Dateline: May 3rd, 2002
By Joe Haakenson, AngelsWin.com Contributor -
MAY 3, 2002
GAME 28 - ANGELS AT BLUE JAYS
TORONTO -- A bloop hit, an error, a walk and suddenly Troy Percival was in the eye of the storm again. The Angels closer, called upon to save a two-run lead in the ninth inning Friday night against the Toronto Blue Jays, didn't blink.
With the bases loaded and one out, Percival...
Three Years Into New Mets Era, But What’s Changed?
Strike up the band, the Mets pulled one out in the final game of the Marlins series to avoid getting swept by the worst team in baseball. I don’t need to tell you this, but being a Mets’ fan is about being disappointed, frustrated and angry. It shouldn’t have to mean being betrayed.
After the disappointment of the Omar Minaya Era, which was highlighted by bad contracts –...
Mets Have Made A Theme Of Losing In “Wild” Fashion
Despite the incredible effort by Jeremy Hefner on Tuesday night, the Mets were unable to get just three more outs as a ninth inning meltdown capped off by a Brandon Lyon wild pitch handed the Marlins their second straight walk-off victory against the Amazin’s and their first series win of the season.
Surprisingly enough, the Mets have become quite used to the demoralizing oddity...
a lot of Baseball Craziness on Monday Night
Last night may be one of the nuttiest baseball days I can ever remember! Here are the highlights:
Rough day for relief pitchers…
- Mets’ Jeremy Hefner pitches 8.1 shutout innings, leaves leading 1-0 with a man on third. His reliever Brandon Lyon gives up a single for a run, then the Marlins walk-off with a wild pitch.
- Trevor Cahill of the Diamondbacks also pitched a shutout...
A Rough Ride For Marlins North
If you're reading this like I want you to, then tie yourself down to whatever chair you're sitting in, because this post is going to be a rough f*cking ride.
I understand that this is supposed to be the "punt" year. And I could deal with it when the Mets pull this garbage against superior teams. Or equal teams. Or even teams slightly worse. The Miami Marlins...
Rank Relief: Brandon Lyon is not effectively wild
This is one of the worst ways to walk off. The Mets had the worst team in the league down 1-0 and just needed to shut the door in the bottom of the ninth. The Mets brought in Jeremy Hefner to do the job but that didn’t seem to work out. He gave up a single and the Chris Coghlan advanced on the first ball that passed the catcher – error on catcher. After the speedy Juan...
Recap: Game 25 - Mets (1) at Marlins (2) - Hefner loses heartbreaker
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Miami (8-19)«000000002250
W: R. Webb (1-1) L: J. Hefner (0-3)
HR: NYM - None MIA - None
Recap:
Juan Pierre scored the game-winning run on Brandon Lyon's ninth-inning, bases-loaded wild pitch, as the Miami Marlins again rallied for a 2-1 victory over the slumping New York Mets in the middle test of a three-game set...
Another Stunning Walk-Off Defeat As Mets Squander Brilliant Start By Hefner
Wow, that one hurt. What a punch in the gut…
The Miami Marlins came back in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Mets 2-1 in stunning fashion as the winning run scored on a Brandon Lyon wild pitch. The loss is the sixth straight defeat for the Mets, matching their longest losing streak of the 2012 season and it’s only April 30.
I feel more worse about Jeremy Hefner being denied...
Marlins 2, Mets 1
Juan Pierre scored standing up on a wild pitch with none out in the ninth, and the Miami Marlins came from behind in the final inning for the second consecutive game to beat the reeling New York Mets 2-1 Tuesday night.
The Mets have lost a season-worst six games in a row. They were beaten Monday when Miami scored twice in the 15th inning to win 4-3.
New York's Jeremy Hefner...
Mets Wrap: Anthony Recker, “Hefner Didn’t Deserve This.”
Just when they needed him most, Jeremy Hefner pitched a lights-out game for the Mets with eight shutout innings, but was betrayed by another ninth-inning collapse in a 2-1 loss to the Miami Marlins, which extended their losing streak to six games. Pinch-hitter Chris Coghlan led off the ninth with a single, took second on a passed ball by catcher Anthony Recker, advanced to third...
Marlins rally in ninth to beat Mets
MIAMI (AP) -- Juan Pierre scored standing up on a wild pitch with none out in the ninth, and the Miami Marlins came from behind in the final inning for the second consecutive game to beat the reeling New York Mets 2-1 Tuesday night.
The Mets have lost a season-worst six games in a row. They were beaten Monday when Miami scored twice in the 15th inning to win 4-3.
New York's...
Brandon Lyon Is Cashing In Despite A Team Worst ERA Among Mets Relievers
I couldn’t help but get somewhat annoyed when MetsBlog posted that reliever Brandon Lyon is currently cashing in on some large monthly incentive bonus checks.
His contract stipulates that Lyon is to receive roster bonuses of $100,000-$125,000 roughly once a month.
The 34-year-old righty who signed a a guaranteed $750,000 deal with the Mets before the season, received his...
Recap: Game 18 - Dodgers (7) at Mets (2) - Not a Niese Night
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N.Y. Mets (9-9)002000000240
W: R. Belisario (1-2) L: B. Lyon (1-1)
HR: LAD - M. Ellis (1),M. Ellis (2) NYM - None
Recap:
Mark Ellis showed surprising power Tuesday as the veteran carried the Los Angeles Dodgers past the New York Mets, 7-2, in the opener of a three-game series at Citi Field.
Ellis went 4-for-5 with...
Parnell and the pen come up big for Mets
The New York Mets took the rubber game against the Washington Nationals Sunday afternoon en route to their third straight home series win of the season. John Buck did what John Buck does, mash home runs (never really thought I’d be saying that). His seventh homer of the year came in the second inning and was really all the offense the pitching staff would need. The dinger...
Monday Musings: Mets Are Off To A Solid Start In 2013
Guess who’s jazzed about the Mets so far? This guy is.
The Mets won the first two series of the season 2-1 against the Padres and the Marlins—including a furious 9th-inning rally yesterday. Maybe not the most stellar competition, but the team has shown the range of its capabilities.
In the first couple games, the Mets’ offense exerted its dominance as well as its starting pitching...
Happy Recap: Game 5 - Marlins (3) at Mets (7) - Buck to the Rescue
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N.Y. Mets (3-2)«10000231x791
W: B. Lyon (1-0) L: R. Webb (0-1)
HR: MIA - None NYM - C. Cowgill (2)
Recap:
John Buck had four RBI, and the New York Mets used a three-run seventh inning to snap a tie and beat Miami, 7-3, in the second of three games between the clubs.
"Last year, if something could go wrong, it went wrong. And...
Cutting In On An Opener
Sometimes, even on Opening Day, the greatest baseball stories happen far away from the baseball diamond. This was one of those instances. If you missed my twitter feed early on Monday, then I have a doozy for you (and no, this isn't an April Fool's joke):
A close personal friend of mine was at the DMV in Manhattan early in the morning. She relayed to me a story of a guy...
Cutting In On An Opener
Sometimes, even on Opening Day, the greatest baseball stories happen far away from the baseball diamond. This was one of those instances. If you missed my twitter feed early on Monday, then I have a doozy for you (and no, this isn't an April Fool's joke):
A close personal friend of mine was at the DMV in Manhattan early in the morning. She relayed to me a story of a guy...
MLB Team Previews: New York Mets
Key Additions
SIGNED/RESIGNED: David Wright (3B), Shaun Marcum (P), Brandon Lyon (P), LaTroy Hawkins (P), Pedro Feliciano (P)
TRADED FOR: Brandon Hicks (SS), Collin Cowgill (OF), John Buck (C), Travis d'Arnoud (C)
Key Losses
Josh Thole (C), R.A. Dickey (P), Scott Hairston (OF), Jason Bay (OF), Jon Rouch (P),...
Split Team, Double Horror
Split squads this late in the season only serve to double your chance of injuries. In the Mets' case, it's exponential. Matt den Dekker, a defensive whiz if there ever was one, broke his wrist Sunday while twirling around like a ballerina in a music box chasing a wind blown fly ball before landing on his wrist and breaking it. This weather related injury ends my dream of...
Tigers 9, Mets 4
Doug Fister pitched into the fifth inning and Austin Jackson had two extra-base hits for the Detroit Tigers in a 9-4 victory over a New York Mets split squad Sunday.
Don Kelly hit a two-run homer off Mets reliever Brandon Lyon in a five-run seventh that gave Detroit a 9-2 lead. Jackson had an RBI triple in the inning to go with his run-scoring double in the fourth.
Fister, fighting...
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