Braves 6 Mets 4 After playing 4 games in Class C against Pittsburgh, the Mets were quickly reminded that Major League teams make few mistakes and usually have to be beaten; the better ones don’t beat themselves senselessly at every opportunity. Ironically, it was a 21-year-old kid (Jason Heyward) who delivered the fatal blow — … Read more
Mets Pirates If the Mets played the Pirates all the time, they’d have clinched the pennant by now. OK, that’s a little silly … but imagine how the season might have gone if only the Mets played the Pirates in a 15-game series right after the All-Star exhibition? Back to reality: the Mets swept the … Read more
Mets 8 Pirates 7 Thankfully, there weren’t too many impressionable kids in the stands, and hopefully, there weren’t too many aspiring youngsters watching the game on TV — because the Mets and Pirates put on a clinic on how NOT to play baseball. In the end, the Mets were less terrible than the Pirates, and … Read more
Mets 9 Pirates 1 R.A. Dickey continued the feel-good story of the year, cruising to his eleventh win of the season and enjoying an abnormally ample attack from the Mets’ offense: 9 runs on 14 hits, including 5 for extra bases. Game Notes Dickey pitched a complete game, allowing one earned run on 5 hits … Read more
Mets 1 Pirates 0 Those who had the patience to sit through a rain delay and almost ten innings of scoreless, scintillating baseball were rewarded with a win by the home team. Ruben Tejada ripped a one-out double off reliever Chan Ho Park and pinch-hitter Nick Evans followed by stroking the Mets’ seventh hit of … Read more
Phillies 3 Mets 0 As Mets fans we are blessed to have the Phillies in our division and in turn the opportunity to see two of the best righthanded starters in baseball pitching over the course of a weekend. Roy Oswalt was spectacular, spinning a complete-game, 4-hit shutout. He completely stymied the Mets hitters, and … Read more
Mets 4 Phillies 3 The Mets ran up a four-zip lead, and the Phillies were supposed to roll over and die. Strangely enough, they didn’t, and rallied late to give Mets fans a scare. However, the home team held on in the end to take their 70th victory of the season and 40th win in … Read more
Phillies 8 Mets 4 The game was over by the fourth inning. But for whatever reason, I kept watching till the end. Must be the same reason people stop to look at car accidents, or watch bad movies on Cinemax at 2 AM. Game Notes For the second straight start, Jenrry Mejia did not look … Read more
