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Baseball may be delayed indefinitely, but Marcus Stroman’s competitive juices are not. The Mets pitcher has signed up for a virtual beer pong tournament — sports in the time of coronavirus — and has picked teammate Dominic Smith to be his partner. Stroman’s friend Mike Seander, the rapper formerly known as Mike Stud who now …

The Mets won’t be heading to Puerto Rico this season. The league announced the cancellation Thursday of a three-game series between the Mets and Marlins at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan from April 28-30 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Diamondbacks and Padres also will not make a trip to Mexico City, were they …

Baseball may be on hiatus, but Pete Alonso still managed to hit it out of the park for one Amazin’ fan in need of a boost. The All-Star slugger brought cancer-stricken and lifelong Mets fanatic Kathleen Selig to happy tears on Wednesday by sending her an encouraging video over social media. Selig recently learned she …

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — He strolled in wearing a Mets T-shirt, shorts and cap, knowing no one on the premises. “I saw a baseball field,” Matt Mullenbach explained, simply enough, “and figured that I’d come ask if I could throw.” It was neither heaven nor Iowa, although Mullenbach hails from the latter location and plans …

MLB issued guidelines Sunday telling clubs to cease any organized informal workouts, further closing down camp activity and, thus, making it more and more obvious that regular-season games will not be played before May — if then. MLB is saying that this is being done to further honor governmental requests for social distancing during the …

We are all looking for ways to Fill the Void right now. There are missions both noble (for me: clean the attic!) and trivial (for me: filling inexplicable pop-culture voids by planned binge-watching of “The Simpsons” and “The Office”). We can pretend to be excited if we can pull in a cricket match somewhere deep …