Meet the Mets
Loser! You’re a loser! Are you feeling sorry for yourself? Well, you should be, cause you’re dirt! You make me sick! You big baby! Baby want a bottle? A big dirt bottle?
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Francisco Lindor played his second rehab game with Triple-A Syracuse and should be back this week, but probably not before Wednesday.
It’s hard to win baseball games, but it becomes almost impossible when your starting
pitching is consistently, let’s say, rubbish.
Kodai Senga still believes that he can dominate and return to his past form, so there’s at least one person who does.
Around the National League East
Bryce Elder’s ERA went up 56 points in one game as he gave up eight runs in his second inning of work to the Milwaukee Brewers in the Braves’ weekend-ending 9-4 loss.
Johnny DeLuca hit the decisive home run against the Nationals as Tampa Bay eked out a 4-3 win over the Nationals on Sunday.
Logan Webb pitched an eight-inning complete game, but five Marlins pitchers combined to do a slightly better job, giving Miami a 2-1 win.
Going into the new week, the Phillies are designating Bryse Wilson for assignment, demoting Max Lazar, and promoting Kyle Backhus and Alan Rangel in their places.
Sandy Leon cleared waivers and has been outrighted to Triple-A by the Braves days after designating him for assignment in favor of newly-acquired Joey Bart.
Around Major League Baseball
For Father’s Day, the Tampa Bay Rays surprised the fathers on the team by having their children decorate their locker room name plates.
An ankle impingement has sent Jack Leiter to the injured list for the Rangers, putting a pause on what has been a disappointing season for the Mets-adjacent righty.
The face of home run robberies for the 2026 season, Jo Adell suddenly ended up on the wrong side of the highlight reel, losing a homer of his own to the Athletics’ Colby Thomas.
Jared Jones left Sunday’s game after taking a liner to the elbow, but X-rays were negative and outside of some personal annoyance, Jones should be fine.
I can’t tell you who will be in the Home Run Derby, but I can tell you that Yordan Alvarez won’t be.
Just in case you thought things were going too well for the Giants, Rafael Devers was reluctant to leave Sunday’s game for a pinch runner and avoided handshakes and rump smacks in the dugout after submitting.
Teoscar Hernandez is starting his rehab assignment tomorrow and it wouldn’t be out of the question for him to return to the big league Dodgers lineup by the end of the month.
This Date in Mets History
On this date in 1987, Tom Seaver abandoned his comeback attempt and retired as a member of the New York Mets.
