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Mother Nature offered the Mets and their long-suffering fans a much-needed reprieve from terrible baseball by pouring buckets of water upon the tri-state area, which resulted in last night’s game being postponed. The Mets and Cubs will play a split-admission twin bill on Wednesday.
Francisco Lindor will suit up for the Syracuse Mets in another rehab game today. After that, he could return on Wednesday, or possibly on Thursday after a day off, if all goes well.
Lindor’s return means it’s now or never
for the Mets to get back in the race, explains Anthony DiComo.
Juan Soto currently ranks sixth in All-Star voting among National league outfielders.
Ken Rosenthal doesn’t think it would be smart for the Mets to move on from David Stearns this offseason, saying, “He just needs to make better decisions.”
The team’s starting pitching woes is making consistency impossible, laments Laura Albanese.
Clay Holmes is just focused on returning to the Mets with trade rumors and his injury clouding his future.
The Mets are offering 26% off tickets for the homestand. to celebrate the Knicks’ 2026 championship. To add to the Knicks-centric celebrations this week, the club will have Mike Breen, Jose Alvarado, and Game 4 hero OG Anunoby throw out the first pitch throughout the homestand. The latter will throw out the first pitch to Jose Reyes during the Sunday finale.
Around the National League East
Matt Slater wrote about the consensus feeling among Phillies fans towards the World Cup.
The Marlins fell 4-3 to the Rangers to halt their four-game winning streak.
The Nationals defeated the Phillies 4-1 in an NL East showdown. In the process, they climbed to within 1.5 games of second place Philadelphia.
The Braves were blanked 1-0 by the Padres.
Around Major League Baseball
Shohei Ohtani recently welcomed his second child, and he celebrated by helping the Dodgers get back to No. 1 on the MLB Power Rankings.
The MLB.com staff looked at some first-time Home Run Derby participants they’d like to see this year.
Anthony Castrovince showed us what we’ve learned so far at the season’s midway point.
Drew Kaufman and Rob Terranova provided all the information we need to know before this week’s Draft Combine.
We got another update on All-Star balloting. The big surprise is Ernie Clement of the Blue Jays leading all American League players in voting. Clement trails only Ohtani in voting overall.
Pete Crow-Armstrong and Logan Gilbert were named National League and American League Players of the Week, respectively.
The Angels released Taijuan Walker after just five games.
Brandon Woodruff came off the IL last night and started against the Reds.
Mike Petriello argued that Tarik Skubal’s future may depend on how the Tigers fare against the Yankees, whom they play six times in the next ten games. Detroit got off to a good start on that stretch by beating the Bronx Bombers 5-3.
In defeat, Gerrit Cole suffered the roughest outing since his return from the IL.
The Royals topped the Rays 2-1.
The Blue Jays doubled up the Astros 4-2.
The Brewers outlasted the Reds 2-1 in 10 innings.
The Dodgers beat the Twins 2-1. Eric Lauer pitched six hitless innings for Los Angeles behind an opener to help the Dodgers pick up their 50th win of the season. On the downside, Kyle Tucker exited the game with back spasms and is officially listed as day-to-day, and Dalton Rushing exited the game and entered concussion protocol after taking a foul ball off the face mask.
The White Sox scored two in the bottom of the ninth after allowing two in the top of the ninth to walk off the Guardians 6-5. Sam Antonacci played hero with a two-run single off Cade Smith.
The Cardinals beat the Diamondbacks 3-2.
The Orioles beat up the flailing Angels 6-1.
The Rockies scored three in the ninth to stun the Red Sox 3-2. They ended the game with eight straight hits and a walk off that we haven’t seen in 20 years.
There was no shortage of suspense in yesterday’s MLB calendar, as it was the closest day of games in nearly 37 years.
Yesterday at Amazin’ Avenue
Brian Salvatore previewed the team’s series against the Cubs, which was supposed to begin last night but will instead kick off tonight after yesterday’s rain out.
Linus Lawrence provided a Monday Stat Party.
This Date in Mets History
Ron Hunt became the first Met to start an All-Star game on this date in 1964.
