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Within the span of a few hours, the Mets managed to get a win over the Los Angeles Dodgers and Carlos Beltrán became the third member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame to sport a Mets cap. It can only go down from here.
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In his Hall of Fame speech, Beltrán celebrated and thanked mentors, the island of Puerto Rico, and even the Mets fans.
Back in New York, interim manager
Andy Green spoke highly of Beltran’s reinvestment back into the future of the Mets.
The upcoming 40th anniversary of the 1986 World Series will be the first official reunion to be held without manager Davey Johnson.
If you find the 2026 Mets season to be worse than any floor you could imagine in March, you’re not alone!
As his final days as a New York Met tick down, Freddy Peralta is confident that he can still be a pitcher way better than the one who spent these past four months in the orange and blue.
Around the National League East
In what has become a familiar tale, the Nationals scored 10 times on 15 hits and the game still ended up too close for comfort in a 10-7 win over the Diamondbacks.
After 11 innings and despite the bases being loaded when the last out was recorded, the Braves capped their weekend series in Baltimore with a win over the Orioles, 3-2.
Ideally for Atlanta, Ronald Acuña Jr. will be back at the top of their lineup when the Braves come north to New York.
A late Marlins lead suddenly became a blown Marlins lead after giving up four runs in the eighth inning and set a new low-water mark for longest losing streak in franchise history with their 12th in a row.
On Sunday Night Baseball, the Phillies finally won a game against the Yankees with Alec Bohm and Bryson Stott driving in a combined nine runs in an 11-4 victory.
Around Major League Baseball
Up in Cooperstown, Carlos Beltrán was inducted into the Hall of Fame along with Jeff Kent and Andruw Jones.
Shea Langeliers, the only active player named for Shea Stadium, will miss most, if not all, of the remaining regular season games for the Athletics with a torn meniscus.
Swapping roster spots, the Yankees placed Cody Bellinger on the 10-day injured list with a hamstring strain and called up Spencer Jones to take his place in Philadelphia.
A term you really want to hear while fighting for a chance at meaningful September games, the Padres are ready to activate “pitching chaos” protocol.
Making another abbreviated start, Jacob Misiorowski still found the time to set the Brewers record for most consecutive strikeouts to start a game and managed to touch 100mph on every single fastball he threw.
Lance McCullers Jr.’s time with the Milwaukee Brewers has come to an end after exactly one Scaramucci’s worth of days.
On his bobblehead day, Munetaka Murikami hit his first two home runs since coming off of the injured list in a White Sox stomping of the Astros.
The White Sox badly want starting pitching but are also unwilling to trade any of their top 10 prospects, which makes for an interesting way to say you don’t want very good starting pitching after all.
In semi-related news, the Chicago White Sox acquired pitcher Jose Urquidy from the Pittsburgh Pirates.
This Date in Mets History
Happy birthday to illustrious Mets Max Scherzer and Xzavion Curry.
