Blog Roundup: Optimism in Metsville
Following a rough offseason and uninspiring Pre-Season, the Mets are off to a surprising 4-0 start. Too early to clear your October schedule? Yes. Too early to feel good about your favorite...
View ArticleAn Early Barometer
Who needs a pinkie, anyway? I’m not going to say this is a big series for the Mets. Starting tonight, our favorite team from Flushing goes to the Ted in Atlanta for a three game series. This is not...
View ArticleMets Game 10: Win Over Braves
Mets 6 Braves 1 With only 152 games to play, the Mets are really putting the pressure on the NL-leading Nationals, this time plowing over the third-place Braves to remain a mere half-game out of first...
View ArticleMets Game 11: Loss to Braves
Braves 9 Mets 3 Tough game for the Mets as they dropped to a 7-4 record, but they still remain within striking distance of the league-leading Nationals — only 1.5 games behind with 151 to play. Mets...
View ArticleSantana, One Start at a Time
I can’t help but feel nervous every time Johan Santana takes the mound. Even after 10 innings of 1 run baseball, in which he struck out 13 batters, my optimism still had a heavy dose of caution. Last...
View ArticleMets Game 12: Loss to Braves
Braves 14 Mets 6 It didn’t seem so long ago that the Mets were in first place and four games over .500. Then, we’ve collectively blinked, and suddenly the Mets are 7-5, tied for second place with the...
View ArticleMets Game 87: Loss to Braves
Braves 7 Mets 5 This is not the way the Mets wanted to start the second half. Mets Game Notes The Braves became the first team to figure out how to hit Chris Young‘s batting-practice fastball. As it...
View ArticleMets Game 88: Loss to Braves
Braves 8 Mets 7 What happened? Mets Game Notes Thanks to terrible managing by Fredi Gonzalez, a bad decision by Braves 3B coach Brian Snitker, and a lucky bounce off the wall on a Dan Uggla rocket, the...
View ArticleMets Game 89: Loss to Braves
Braves 6 Mets 1 Getting swept was not exactly the way the Mets wanted to start the second half. Mets Game Notes For the second consecutive start, Johan Santana was battered by the opposition. He had...
View ArticleMets Game 113: Loss to Braves
Braves 4 Mets 0 What happened to the offense? What happened to the “never say die” attitude? Mets Game Notes Looking at the boxscore, Matt Harvey‘s outing doesn’t look so terrible. However, his first...
View ArticleMets Game 114: Loss to Braves
Braves 9 Mets 3 No good here — just the bad and the ugly. Mets Game Notes The story was Johan Santana, who came off the disabled list to save the Mets season. It didn’t go so well. Santana allowed 8...
View ArticleMets Game 115: Win Over Braves
Mets 6 Braves 5 Mets avoid sweep, beat Braves — though, it took three pitchers to get the final out of the game. Mets Game Notes Jonathon Niese pitched a strong game, going eight innings and allowing...
View ArticleMets Game 138: Loss to Braves
Braves 3 Mets 0 Winning a baseball game is infinitely more difficult when you don’t score any runs. Mets Game Notes In what seems to have evolved into the standard theme for Jonathon Niese in 2012, the...
View ArticleMets Game 139: Loss to Braves
Braves 11 Mets 3 The ship keeps sinking, but it’s still above the Fish. Mets Game Notes Jeremy Hefner pitched a spectacular round of batting practice in the third inning, much to the delight of the...
View ArticleMets Game 140: Loss to Braves
Braves 3 Mets 2 Larry Chipper Jones finishes his career stuck at 49 homeruns against the Mets. Mets Game Notes Was anyone else expecting Larry to put one over the fence in his last at-bat vs. the Mets?...
View ArticleMets Game 157: Win Over Braves
Mets 3 Braves 1 After all that Larry Jones did to the Mets in his 19-year career, the least the Mets could do in return was spoil his special day in Atlanta. Mets Game Notes Who are these Mets we’ve...
View ArticleMets Game 158: Loss to Braves
Braves 2 Mets 0 And now, back to reality. Mets Game Notes What a difference a day makes. Just 24 hours earlier, the Mets looked like inspired world beaters, with a nucleus that — with maybe one or two...
View ArticleMets Game 159: Loss to Braves
Braves 6 Mets 2 On the bright side, the Mets won’t have to play the Braves again in 2012, and will never again have to face Chipper Jones. Mets Game Notes Yet another game I wasn’t able to watch due to...
View ArticleBraves Trade Tommy Hanson
The latest from the Hot Stove is that the Braves have traded righthanded starter Tommy Hanson to the Angels in return for righthanded reliever Jordan Walden. Why would the Braves trade a 26-year-old...
View ArticleSeries Preview: Atlanta Braves vs. New York Mets
The New York Mets enter its three-game series with the Atlanta Braves as the hottest team in baseball, having won eight consecutive games. The Mets swept their last two series against the Marlins and...
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