Meet the Mets
A remarkable team in unremarkable ways, the Mets won a nationally televised game against the Atlanta Braves and still left you sitting on your couch at the end of the ninth inning feeling as if they’d lost.
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It’s not necessarily a guarantee, or even likely, but the Mets’ best shot at a big haul this trade deadline might be parting ways with one of their two catchers.
Prior to Sunday’s
game, the Mets continued the bullpen shuffle, calling up Guillermo Zuñiga and demoting Joey Gerber once again.
For Jon Heyman, the era of the firesale Mets should be upon us with very few players spared from trade negotiations.
Down with Syracuse, Jorge Polanco collected the second hit of his rehab assignment which also happens to be his second home run of the rehab assignment.
Recording a pair of hits against left-handed pitching for the second time this season, A.J. Ewing hasn’t been intimidated by lefties and won’t start now.
For a team that aspires to be Dodgers East, Juan Soto being the sole, generational, All Star representative on one of the league’s worst teams tastes a little too Angels East for comfort.
Around the National League East
Luis Garcia Jr. continued his miraculous month-long surge up all of the National League’s offensive leaderboards, but it wasn’t enough as the Nationals gave up seven runs in the final two innings of an 11-5 loss to Pittsburgh.
Before the game, the Nationals designated former top prospect and return from San Diego for Juan Soto, Robert Hassell III, for assignment.
For a game that started with the Phillies down by two before the first inning ended, Aaron Nola put up a respectable seven innings of three-run ball, but still took the loss in a 5-2 contest against Kansas City.
Removing Eury Perez after seven perfect innings, the Marlins were very nearly cursed by the vengeful baseball gods, barely squeaking out a 9-8 win over the Athletics in a game they once led 8-0 after seven innings.
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If you find yourself wondering if a certain Met or any other player you see is as a bad at ABS challenges as you think they are, there’s an interactive leaderboard to answer that question.
Ahead of his major league debut with the Dodgers, catcher Eliezer Alfonzo Jr.’s sister and stepmother were found dead in the aftermath of the Venezuelan earthquakes.
For the free-falling Yankees, far-fetched ideas and fantasies of trading for names like Tarik Skubal have gone from daydreams to, perhaps, an imperative as they quickly slide back towards mediocrity.
If it’s any consolation, the Mets aren’t the only New York baseball team getting increasingly distressed stories written about them and their failures.
It wasn’t the lack of a cup or the Dubble Bubble lollipops that did Jazz Chisholm Jr. in, but rather an aching big toe.
This will be the last season for umpires CB Bucknor, Laz Diaz, Brian O’Nora, Lance Barksdale, Marvin Hudson, Tony Randazzo and Andy Fletcher as they have accepted the MLB buyouts and will retire from full-time umpiring.
Back on the injured list for the second time this season, Brandon Woodruff is the fourth Brewers starter on the sidelines as they work to maintain baseball’s second-biggest division lead through the back half of the season.
If you’re hoping to see Jacob Misiorowski pitch during next Tuesday’s All Star Game, it’s time to get really really invested in the weather.
This Date in Mets History
On this date in 2010, Johan Santana hit the first home run of his career and threw a shutout against the Cincinnati Reds.
