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The Yankees were one out away from their eighth loss in nine games when they erupted for five runs in the bottom of the seventh to tie the game and won it in the eighth in the first game of Friday’s doubleheader in The Bronx. Gio Urshela’s two-out single off Edwin Diaz drove in Mike …
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The Mets have produced a better-than .500 record just three times in the past 11 seasons. On each occasion they were mediocre or worse for much of the schedule, then were among the majors’ best teams down the stretch. This year is pretty much all stretch. By late July or early August of 2015, 2016 …
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Edwin Diaz is getting off easy. The cardboard cutouts will remain quiet. Following a brutal debut season in Queens spent absorbing venom from Mets fans, Diaz has quickly destroyed any optimism of a bounce-back campaign, and potentially lost the trust of new manager Luis Rojas, with his second straight ninth-inning meltdown coming in Thursday’s 4-2 …
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In two games at Fenway Park this week, the Mets lineup looked more than formidable. Before and after, it’s been a different story. Thursday night, most of the Mets hitters could have traded places with the cardboard cutouts in the stands and few would have recognized the difference. Yet for a second straight night the …
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One strike away from clinching a series win, the ghost of 2019 came back to visit the Mets on Saturday at Citi Field. A day after looking sharp in his season debut, Edwin Diaz failed to make it back-to-back saves as he gave up a game-tying home run to Marcell Ozuna with two strikes and …
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Rewind to early March, when life still seemed mostly normal and the countdown was underway to the Mets opening the 2020 season. At the time, the Mets didn’t resemble a team that was an obvious favorite in the NL East, but likewise it was hard to say they shouldn’t compete for first place. The lineup …
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The Mets got good and hammered Saturday night at Citi Field, the Yankees handing them a 9-3 loss thanks in large part to a ninth inning that looked an awful lot like the fever dreams that haunted their fans most of last year. It was exactly the kind of game we’ve seen at Citi Field …
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Proceed at your own risk, Mets fans. Jarred Kelenic, the one-time Mets prospect dealt away in the Robinson Cano/Edwin Diaz trade, may be in the big leagues faster than you think. Kelenic, the Mets’ first-round pick (sixth overall) in the 2018 draft, blasted a pair of home runs in a Mariners intrasquad game on Monday, …
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When spring training was suspended in March, the Mets were still trying to configure their rotation and get multiple rehabbing players ready for the season. More than three months later, as they prepare to resume workouts next week — this time at Citi Field with MCU Park in Brooklyn as a potential overflow site — …
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Part nine in a series about the New York Mets The Mets could have traded Edwin Diaz in the offseason, but that move would have been riskier than trying to resurrect the underperforming reliever. After all, general manager Brodie Van Wagenen surrendered the organization’s top prospect, Jarred Kelenic, in the deal to get Diaz from …
The Yankees were one out away from their eighth loss in nine games when they erupted for five runs in the bottom of the seventh to tie the game and won it in the eighth in the first game of Friday’s doubleheader in The Bronx. Gio Urshela’s two-out single off Edwin Diaz drove in Mike …
