Meet the Mets
The Mets played their final game of the 2026 season, putting an end to a team we’ve grown to dislike in various ways and will end up missing as the days and weeks of the offseason pass.
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Francisco Lindor connected, at long last, for his 300th career home run and in the process became the first shortstop in major league history to reach the 300 home run/200 steal plateau and the second switch hitter.
Nothing will be set in stone until after the World Series ends, but Bo Bichette can at least envision himself coming back to the Mets for the second year of his contract.
It seemed like a foregone conclusion that the NL Rookie of the Year Award was going to Sal Stewart. Did Carson Benge do enough to swoop in and claim it for himself?
The sole benefit of the Mets being as dreadful as they were, the team’s increased draft lottery odds won’t get to pay off until at least the end of the lockout or, perhaps, never.
Around the National League East
They went right up to the edge of having one of the worst collapses in the history of baseball, but a Diamondbacks loss and a 7-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays has sent the Phillies to the Wild Card to face off with Atlanta.
Jesus Luzardo made his return to the team after three weeks on the sidelines with shoulder inflammation and threw four pitches along with assuring the team he is ready for whatever they need him for in the playoffs.
Ending up just a game under .500, Sandy Alcantara threw the first pitch of the season in March and the final pitch of the season yesterday as the Marlins said goodbye to 2026 with a 5-3 win over the division champion Braves.
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With all playoff spots clinched and the regular season finished, MLB announced the dates and times for the AL and NL Wild Card series.
Now that regular season analysis has come and gone, it’s time for postseason analysis!
He didnt’ quite catch Justin Verlander in career strikeouts, but Max Scherzer went seven innings, struck out seven, and got to yell at his manager one more time in what may be the final start of his Hall of Fame career.
Earlier in the same game, George Springer played his final game of the six-year contract the Blue Jays gave him after 2020 and left to a well-deserved standing ovation.
Old Friend Pete Alonso is the first player in Major League Baseball history to lead both the National League and the American League in RBIs in different seasons.
Setting whatever the opposite of a new standard is, the Houston Astros eclipsed the Rangers and finished their .500 season as the worst team in Major League Baseball history to win their division.
Jacob Misiorowski ended his obvious Cy Young season with some of the best rate stats that we’ve seen since prime Pedro Martinez.
As the Boston Red Sox went to Tropicana Field to finish their season away from the rainy northeast, the Yankees simply canceled their Sunday afternoon game against the Orioles, ending their season at 161 games.
With their win over the Giants, Dave Roberts won 100 games for the sixth time as manager of the Dodgers, putting him one more triple-digit-win season away from being the first manager to even preside over seven such seasons.
At two points on Sunday, Dan Wilson announced that he would not be returning as manager of the Seattle Mariners in 2027 and the team announced that he would not be returning as manager in 2027.
This Date in Mets History
On this date 18 years ago, Shea Stadium closed its doors for good.
