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BOSTON — David Peterson earned his big-boy pants Tuesday night, departing the mound in the sixth inning all grown up so quickly. A major league debut can be scary enough, but for a left-handed pitcher performing in the Green Monster’s fabled shadow, the pressure can strangulate. And yet here was Peterson in control against 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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He has been the old Sinatra song, all of it, a jumble of personas and personalities, going all the way back to the first day he showed up one week shy of five years ago. He’s been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king — seizing New York by …
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Jacob deGrom pitched brilliantly yet did not win. But since it was Opening Day — even in late July — the Mets did. That was all quite familiar. So much else was not. It still takes getting used to cardboard cutout fans, piped in noise and a designated hitter in a National League park. Especially …
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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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Jed Lowrie will open the season where he’s spent most of his time with Mets: on the injured list. The team announced the move Monday, calling the injury “left knee discomfort.” He will see team physician David Altcheck this week to “find out the next step,’’ according to manager Luis Rojas. When pressed, Rojas did …
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What if we are asking the wrong question with Robinson Cano? Not where he should bat in the Mets lineup? But if he should bat in the Mets lineup? Hall of Famers such as Carlton Fisk, Sam Rice, Honus Wagner and Carl Yastrzemski had down seasons at an advanced age, then rebounded to have multiple …
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The Mets played their second exhibition game of spring training 2.0 on Sunday, and for a second straight night, Robinson Cano hit third. The 37-year-old was in the three-hole more than anywhere else in his first season in Queens and the results were not good, as Cano finished with a .633 OPS in 245 plate …
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“I must have slept wrong,” a healthy-looking Jacob deGrom theorized Thursday at Citi Field, and the ace proceeded to outline a plan that would still have him on the mound for Opening Day, July 24, perhaps just with a few less pitches in his tank. Nevertheless, you know that no one with a rooting interest …
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When Luis Rojas revealed Wednesday that Jacob deGrom and his ailing back were heading toward an MRI, yes, standard translation applied for magnetic resonance imaging. But in baseball 2020, it also stood for major revelation imminent. The initial read was catastrophe dodged. The imaging test did not reveal abnormalities that concern the Mets, who consider …
BOSTON — David Peterson earned his big-boy pants Tuesday night, departing the mound in the sixth inning all grown up so quickly. A major league debut can be scary enough, but for a left-handed pitcher performing in the Green Monster’s fabled shadow, the pressure can strangulate. And yet here was Peterson in control against the …
