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Bart Giamatti once wrote of baseball, “It breaks your heart,” and just think, the late commissioner published that 31 Mets bullpens ago. If it’s a Mets gut-punch loss, it must be their bullpen. OK, to be fair, their 10-inning, 9-8 defeat to the Phillies on Monday afternoon at Citi Field could’ve been far more pedestrian …
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The calendar said Labor Day, but this ultimately became Groundhog Day for the Mets. Dramatically, they rallied Monday and appeared ready to win a series against the Phillies and perhaps turn momentum in the race for second place in the NL East. And then came late silence of their bats and not enough outs from …
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You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Mets. Realistically, what does the rotation look like next year? — @BrightApollo Of all the areas the Mets …
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Three weeks from Monday the Mets will either be preparing for a National League playoff series or cleaning out lockers to begin their offseason. Whether they reach October will hinge largely upon starting pitching, with the bullpen also hardly immune from worry. The lineup is by far the least of the Mets’ concerns. A fruitful …
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“Starting Pitcher Robert Gsellman: Chapter 2” fared nowhere as well as the original, and the endeavor came to an end Sunday. Before the Mets took on the Phillies at Citi Field, manager Luis Rojas said that Gsellman would return to the bullpen. “Gsellman can definitely help our bullpen, bouncing back,” said Rojas, who explained that …
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The Mets have enough problems filling a rotation that includes Seth Lugo. Without Lugo’s transition from the bullpen, this starting pitching mess would be piled higher and deeper. Saturday night the right-hander completed his buildup, reaching five innings for the first time and giving the Mets hope they have a respectable No. 2 behind Jacob …
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In this almost-everybody-has-a-shot season, the Mets’ chances of winning the NL East are virtually dead. Another avenue to the postseason also could be almost closed by the time Monday’s Labor Day cookouts are concluding. With second-place teams assured a playoff berth, the Mets can still go that route, but unless they show something against the …
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An early four-run Yankees lead vanished from Citi Field, as did a three-run cushion late when Aroldis Chapman gave up a one-out homer to J.D. Davis in the ninth inning that sent Thursday night’s Subway Series game into extra innings. Having used Adam Ottavino, Chad Green, Zack Britton and Chapman in the sixth, seventh, eighth …
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One more time, at the best possible time, on the most appropriate day, the Mets reminded us all where, precisely, the home office for baseball phenomena resides. One more time, on the day the franchise formally bid farewell to The Franchise, we were presented a baseball parable that, in these parts, has always been described …
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The Mets did everything they could to lose it, but the Yankees were better at the particular game Thursday. In a wild afternoon and early evening of blah starting pitching, bullpen malfunctions and inappropriate base running, Pete Alonso removed the Yankees from their misery with a walk-off 10th-inning homer against Albert Abreu that gave the …
Bart Giamatti once wrote of baseball, “It breaks your heart,” and just think, the late commissioner published that 31 Mets bullpens ago. If it’s a Mets gut-punch loss, it must be their bullpen. OK, to be fair, their 10-inning, 9-8 defeat to the Phillies on Monday afternoon at Citi Field could’ve been far more pedestrian …
